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How Supply Chain Planning Can Create Profit in a Declining Market

19 March 2019

Procter & Gamble (P&G) is known for best-in-class supply chain planning. Now, speaking at September's Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in London, P&G’s product supply director Onofrio Caradonna reveals how the company is applying planning capabilities to its distributor network. A sustainable[...]

5 March 2019

Supply Chain Planning in Emerging Markets: Four Points to Remember

Supply chain planning in emerging markets is different. And while each market can be unique, we found a few repeating themes in our own experience and from sources including Gartner and our customers Procter and Gamble (P&G) and Cipla Medpro.[...]

19 February 2019

Mid-Market Companies Leapfrogging Supply Chain Planning Maturity Stages

Is the latest technology enabling some mid-market companies to leapfrog supply chain planning (SCP) stages of maturity? The evidence suggests that it is. Publicly, analysts are still cautioning mid-market companies not to aim too high. But in interviewing a number of[...]

5 February 2019

Design, Operating and Situational Inventory Trade-Offs

Gartner analyst Paul Lord has developed a framework to better understand inventory trade-offs by categorizing those decisions according to the objectives they are meant to achieve: structural, operational and situational. Many companies struggle with decisions such as “How many days of[...]

22 January 2019

Which Supply Chain Planning Processes Should We Automate?

Which Supply Chain Planning Processes Should We...

Now that more companies are embracing supply chain planning productivity and automation, many firms are asking which processes they should automate. Let's first address that question and then[...]

8 January 2019

Recreating the Environment in which Historical Demand Occurred

Recreating the Environment in which Historical Demand...

At last year’s Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference analyst Tom Enright summarized the essence of successful demand forecasting with the following statement: “Demand forecast accuracy[...]

18 December 2018

The Three “Habits” for Successful IoT Implementations

In Lora Cecere’s Supply Chain 2020 study, the Internet of Things (IoT) was considered one of two disruptive technologies with the greatest potential impact on[...]

11 December 2018

Demand Planning is the top Machine Learning App for Supply Chain Planning

Demand Planning is the top Machine Learning...

Gartner recently polled both users and vendors on which types of supply chain planning (SCP) applications were employing machine learning technology. In three different analysis, demand planning and[...]

4 December 2018

Supply Chain Planning for Direct-To-Consumer

Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) presents special supply chain planning challenges for both smaller microbrands (e.g., eyeglass brand Warby Parker or mattress seller Casper) and much larger consumer[...]

27 November 2018

What’s Your Forecast Accuracy Target for 2019?

Editor’s Note: Two years ago we posted a blog about how to set an annual forecast accuracy target and it was one of our most[...]

13 November 2018

Why Probabilistic Forecasting Is Better for Inventory Optimization

Why Probabilistic Forecasting Is Better for Inventory...

Last month we published a primer on probabilistic forecasting, an alternative to deterministic or ‘single number’ forecasting. In this post we’ll explore how probabilistic forecasting[...]

6 November 2018

How Procter & Gamble is Thriving on Supply Chain Complexity

How Procter & Gamble is Thriving on...

Procter & Gamble (P&G) is known for best-in-class supply chain planning. Now, speaking at September's Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in London, P&G’s product supply director[...]

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