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Helping Defense Agency Manage Infrequent, Highly Variable Demand

December 26, 2013

The Defense Logistics Agency tasked partner LMI with helping to develop a more efficient system for managing items with infrequent demands through an innovative system that accounts for need and risk, without sacrificing mission-readiness.

U.S. Cellular Goes High-Tech With Demand Planning

November 25, 2013

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

The wireless telecommunications business is, to put it mildly, competitive.

Apple to Invest Billions in Supply Chain Development

November 18, 2013

Benzinga

The corporate sexiness that is Apple is in the unveiling of its products, but the not-so innovative part of the company has always been its supply chain.

Defining Procurement Values to Build a Responsive Supply Chain

November 15, 2013

Business Standards

Factoring uncertainties into supplier strategy decisions builds agile procurement into the whole supplier life cycle. Procurement leaders of the future will measure uncertainty through quantitative analyses, modeling scenarios to take key uncertainties, such as supplier bankruptcy or material scarcity, into account.

Benefits and Drawbacks of Demand Management vs. Demand Sensing

November 13, 2013

Joel Argo, Manager, Plan4Demand

One of the new buzzwords in the demand planning arena is demand sensing. Developed around 2003, demand sensing has slowly been grabbing the interest of the CPG, energy, food, beverage, and chemical industries. Often viewed as an alternative to demand management, demand sensing is anything but. Let's compare the two.

UK Retailers Find International Expansion Demands Supply Chain Efficiency

November 5, 2013

Retail-Week

International expansion has become an established route to generating revenue growth for UK retailers, but the logistics of moving products across the globe can often put a strain on efficiency and profits.

Global Supply-Chain Planning: It's Getting Tougher

October 24, 2013

SupplyChainBrain

Glen Margolis, chief executive officer of Steelwedge, describes the planning challenges that companies are facing as they cope with increasingly complex demand and supply networks.

Next-generation Forecasting is Closer Than You Might Think

October 11, 2013

Joseph Shamir, CEO, ToolsGroup

Surrounded by an explosion of data, most forecasting systems have no way to leverage or take advantage of it.

How Demand Modeling Can Improve Your Forecast

October 4, 2013

SupplyChainBrain

Demand modeling can make a dramatic difference in the accuracy of one's forecast. Patrick Smith, general manager for North America with ToolsGroup, explains the concept.