Demand management is a key capability in supply chain. Forecasting, and sales & operations planning (S&OP) are discussed within a demand-supply integration framework.
Demand management is...
Different requirements
In manufacturing businesses, production run lengths have become shorter, due in part to the real or imagined need for product extensions that address...
Planning is a macro view
Planning roles have always being analytical, but there is an increasing emphasis on working with system applications and tools and...
The role of each function
The previous blogpost identified that the Aim of a Supply Chains group is to provide ‘Competitive Availability’ of products and...
Helsinki-based RELEX Solutions, a provider of unified supply chain and retail planning solutions, announced it has acquired Stockholm-based Optimity, a supply chain planning and...
Supply Chains process gaps
There are occasional articles that discuss misalignment or gaps in organisations’ supply chains, which occur in processes, information flows, and IT...
Customers are necessary in commercial organisations But what is the collective view about customers inside the business? It is driven by the chief executive,...
In August, China published disappointing trade figures showing that both imports and exports had fallen more sharply than economists had expected in the month...
