The 5 secret ingredients to solve for profit, rather than accuracy Customers can be unpredictable. Hardly anything about them is forecastable correctly. Change approach maybe? Prediction errors are everywhere. Over the past 15 years, I met and worked with over 1,000 managers to help them make better decisions every day. First, while at McKinsey as a management consultant; […]

In episode six of Be Ready for Anything, ToolsGroup’s Pre-Sales Manager for Europe, Birger Klinke, talks about what retailers should expect in 2021 and how they can leverage probabilistic forecasting and automation to adjust to a changing marketplace.   Check out the video below.   Or listen and follow on Spotify.   Transcript This podcast […]

KIKO Milano: A New Customer-Centric Era An extremely wide and diversified assortment, colorful offers and safe and high-quality make-up and face and body treatments are distinctive features of Italian cosmetic brand KIKO Milano, founded in 1997. The dramatic growth of the company created additional complexity and the need to find new competitive momentum within a […]

If this challenging past year has taught us one thing, it is the value of connections–not only in our lives, but in supply chains. We saw this right at the start of the pandemic, when parts being manufactured in Wuhan province disrupted car manufacturers’ production lines around the world. Indeed, when customers contact us for […]

In episode five of Be Ready for Anything, hear from George Fowler, Group Vice President at Spinnaker SCS, about how strategic digital transformation initiatives prepare supply chains to successfully withstand significant business disruptions.   Check out the video below.   Or listen and follow on Spotify.   Transcript Katie Van Adzin: Hi everyone, and welcome […]

How Do You Turn a Good Demand Forecast into the Optimum Inventory Plan? Your customers don’t care if you have a great demand forecast. They care if you have the inventory they want when they want it. But carrying too much inventory can reduce profits and might not be practical for some items such as […]

Innovation is core to Boggi Milano. It’s the founding value that enabled the company’s transformation from a small boutique in 1939 to a rapidly growing ambassador of premium Italian style for cosmopolitan men all over the world, with 190 stores in 38 countries. The latest example is the company’s adoption of fully automated supply chain […]

Planning Isn’t Going as Planned? The real world doesn’t follow the rules. Unpredictable behavior in response to macro events creates demand volatility in every link of our global supply chain. As the bullwhip effect demonstrates, it only takes relatively small fluctuations in supply or demand to create massive bottlenecks. Huge, unexpected demand changes can bring […]

Do you know how to prepare your supply chain for the next crisis? Whether it’s a global recession, the impact of regulation, taxes, tariffs, and recalls; or just simple supply chain disruptions from catastrophic weather events, it’s time for corporations to stop operating as if they are invincible and learn how to protect their supply […]

Supply chain planning concepts have been around for nearly half a century, but now many converging factors and technologies are ushering in a new era for this mature supply chain solution. We believe Gartner’s report, “Mastering Uncertainty: The Rise of Resilient Supply Chain Planning”1 takes a challenging stance by imploring supply chain leaders to adapt […]

BOSTON (March 10, 2020) ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, today announced new intelligent demand sensing resources to help companies ready their supply chains for the unparalleled risk that analysts predict for this decade. Along with intelligent, AI-driven demand sensing software tools, ToolsGroup has launched new educational resources including the ebook “Why […]

PRESS RELEASE Achieve target service levels while optimizing inventory, even with complex supply chains and changing demand BOSTON (February 27, 2020) ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, today unveiled a new brand identity that invites companies to ‘be ready for anything.’ ToolsGroup is how organizations around the world achieve their target service […]