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Supply Chain Forecasting — Everything You Should Know

Procurement Tactics

Although it always relates to demand and sales projections, forecasting can also be used to determine product pricing, lead times, labor needs, and more. The integration of AI into forecasting improves accuracy, saves more money, and helps businesses react to exceptions in real-time.

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Supply Chain Analytics: Benefits, Challenges & Architecture

SCMDOJO

When it comes to managing a supply chain, having access to real-time data can be a game-changer. By having a bird’s eye view of the entire process, companies can quickly adapt to sudden changes in demand and find new ways to optimize their operations. This can lead to significant cost savings and improved profit margins.

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What is the Digital Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Game Changer

” Old telephones, vinyl records, cassette tapes and 8 track tapes, physical books,VHS tapes, physical pieces of mail, watches with moving hands, and antenna based televisions are all analog devices, for those of us old enough to remember them. Visibility to where goods were was largely limited to updates that came over the phone.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

IBP requires cross functional alignment to eliminate silos, to achieve accountability for delivering strategic, financial and operational outcomes, and to enable scenario planning that provides forward visibility into the consequences and risks of decisions (Sorensen, 2020). Automation versus Augmentation. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Democratising Supply Chain Training – Dr. Muddassir Ahmed from SCM Dojo

The Procuretech Podcast

FinTech content at the time was a lot more attractive: Punchy articles, simple “How To.” This takes consultation and a lot of time. And that's just too long, we need to get that time down – possibly on the software development side of things. An On Demand price model would be the best solution here.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #4

Supply Chain Trend

It sometimes seems like S&OP is stuck in a time warp, where the same old things as 30 years ago are being discussed. These leaders all have 20+ years S&OP experience and published books, whitepapers and articles in renowned magazines. Across countries, we implemented common planning processes, reporting and KPIs.