The New JDA Flowcasting Solution
Last Tuesday it was announced that the CEO of JDA had been replaced with an interim CEO. Perhaps because I tend to be product focused, I find the most significant recent announcement the news that JDA...
View ArticleProcter & Gamble Speaks at the 3PL Summit
A week and a half ago I attended and spoke at the North American 3PL Summit and Chief Supply Chain Officer Forum in Chicago. Procter & Gamble’s Julio Nemeth, SVP of Product Supply, also spoke. He...
View ArticleShelf-Level Collaboration Should be seen as Foundational to Omni-channel...
The hottest trend in supply chain management is omni-channel. Five years ago it was shelf-level collaboration. But really, these initiatives should be seen as mutually reinforcing. Omni-channel is...
View ArticleIn-store Shopping Apps and the New Grocery Supply Chain
Over a decade ago, trade journals were talking about smart grocery carts. These grocery carts would have a computer attached to it that could assist consumers in shopping by providing coupons, the...
View ArticleSupply Chain Synchronization: Matching Supply and ACTUAL Demand
One of my favorite parts of being an analyst and a columnist for Logistics Viewpoints, aside from expounding on omni-channel retail and supply chain logistics trends and technologies, is the...
View ArticleThis Week in Logistics News (July 18-22, 2011)
Temperatures are supposed to reach 100F in Boston today, and other parts of the country are going through a heat wave too. It seems like only yesterday that several feet of snow covered my driveway,...
View ArticleMatching Demand Forecast Periods to Production Lead Times
It is common to speak of a “one number” demand forecast. And a “one number” forecast works fine if your demand forecast and your manufacturing planning are based on the same time period. For example,...
View ArticleSupply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2012
If you predicted that we would publish a “predictions for 2012” piece today, then congratulations, you are a true visionary! Of course, it was a safe bet to make because we always share what we see in...
View ArticleKraft Foods Leverages Downstream Data to Drive Supply Chain Collaboration
At the CSCMP Annual Conference a couple of weeks ago, I attended the best supply chain presentation I’ve been to in years. It was given by Ron Volpe, Customer VP – Supply Chain at Kraft Foods, and Jon...
View ArticleSony Computer Entertainment Becomes Demand Driven
In 2010, I wrote a strategic report on shelf-level collaboration – i.e., on how manufacturers can help retailers achieve a better in-stock position for their products. At that time, I concluded that...
View ArticleThe New JDA Flowcasting Solution
Last Tuesday it was announced that the CEO of JDA had been replaced with an interim CEO. Perhaps because I tend to be product focused, I find the most significant recent announcement the news that JDA...
View ArticleProcter & Gamble Speaks at the 3PL Summit
A week and a half ago I attended and spoke at the North American 3PL Summit and Chief Supply Chain Officer Forum in Chicago. Procter & Gamble’s Julio Nemeth, SVP of Product Supply, also spoke. He...
View ArticleShelf-Level Collaboration Should be seen as Foundational to Omni-channel...
The hottest trend in supply chain management is omni-channel. Five years ago it was shelf-level collaboration. But really, these initiatives should be seen as mutually reinforcing. Omni-channel is...
View ArticleIn-store Shopping Apps and the New Grocery Supply Chain
Over a decade ago, trade journals were talking about smart grocery carts. These grocery carts would have a computer attached to it that could assist consumers in shopping by providing coupons, the...
View ArticleSupply Chain Synchronization: Matching Supply and ACTUAL Demand
One of my favorite parts of being an analyst and a columnist for Logistics Viewpoints, aside from expounding on omni-channel retail and supply chain logistics trends and technologies, is the...
View ArticleWhat Does Demand Sensing Teach Us About IoT Projects?
If demand management teaches us anything about learning to leverage the Big Data generated by sensors, it is that leveraging IoT data is likely to be a lengthy maturation process.
View ArticleHow Accurate are Your Demand Predictions? Five Reasons to Consider Demand...
How confident are you in your ability to predict future customer demand? How do external factors such as economics and weather influence that demand next month or next year?? If you’re uncertain how to...
View ArticleMachine Learning in the Digital Supply Chain isn’t New
Machine learning has become hot this year. Supply chain software suppliers are investing in improving their software's capabilities by using machine learning. But machine learning in supply chain...
View ArticleThe Peril of Circular Reasoning in Machine Learning and Forecasting
Machine learning engines can take data on forecast accuracy and use that data to automatically improve the forecast model. However, three is a rub. Lost sales is a key piece of data on the accuracy of...
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Weather-Influenced Demand Forecasting in 2020
It is 2020; we now have reasonably accurate short-term weather forecasts. NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the US, reports that the five-day weather forecasts are...
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