Forecasting

Supply Chain Redesign: Expecting the unexpected

Monday, March 1, 2021 · Bridget McCrea
The top trends driving supply chain design decisions for the coming year—and beyond.

APQC Infographic: Drive supply chain planning performance with key measures

Thursday, February 11, 2021 · SCMR Staff
APQC recommends four high-level KPIs that reveal how organizations are doing on their planning

Achieving better outcomes for predictive analytics

Monday, January 4, 2021 · Matthias Winkenbach
A deeper understanding of the technology will help practitioners and business leaders make clearer connections between needs and model outputs—and hence frame better questions.

Optimize Inventory Performance with Digital Technologies and Cognitive Analytics

Wednesday, November 4, 2020 · SCMR Staff
In this webinar, Mark Newberry, a partner in the global supply chain consulting practice at Tata Consultancy Services, explains how digital technologies and cognitive analytics can help you optimize inventory performance.

Professor to improve supply chain systems with smart algorithm

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 · Miranda Buckheit
Companies are using customer data for operational decisions, but decision-making can go awry without appropriate analytical method to handle this insight.

The Common Pitfalls of Demand Planning

Friday, December 7, 2018 · Richard J. Sherman
Effective demand management is critical to the financial performance and health of an organization. However, to be successful companies must overcome the common pitfalls that have evolved from decades of insufficient demand planning and management.

Storm Clouds on the Horizon for Supply Chain Operations?

Wednesday, December 5, 2018 · Patrick Burnson
Strength in employment and income, solid gains in household net worth and elevated consumer sentiment have generated considerable momentum just as tariffs on some $200 billion of imports from China have gone into effect.

Let’s talk about CRM Systems

Tuesday, September 4, 2018 · Dr. Larry Lapide
At industrial-product companies understanding sales activities is critical to developing them.

Future factories now playing in 3D

Wednesday, July 11, 2018 · Larry Lapide, Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and an MIT research affiliate.
The future state of factories and plants over the next 10 years: How will they be organized and operated?

Industrial products forecasting needs sales input

Tuesday, May 1, 2018 · Dr. Lapide, lecturer at the University of Massachusetts and an MIT Research Affiliate.
Sales organizations of industrial product companies typically play the most important role in creating and shaping demand—because customers are largely businesses to which they directly sell.

Cipla’s journey to driverless forecasting

Thursday, November 2, 2017 · Joseph Ludorf
After it transformed forecasting, pharmaceutical supplier Cipla Medpro South cut inventory levels 25% and stock-outs to less than 1%. But it almost didn't happen. The initial challenge was gathering up the courage to change.

New Attitudes for S&OP / IBP to Keep Pace with Evolving Markets

Friday, August 11, 2017 · SCMR Staff
Have you ever wondered why so many companies struggle to implement an effective S&OP strategy? In this webinar we'll examine why it's time to view S&OP as an evolutionary process that is flexible, adaptable and forward thinking

Outstanding forecasting? Be Careful.

Wednesday, July 5, 2017 · Larry Lapide
Demand forecasting should be done in-house for effective and efficient integration with planning processes such as S&OP, and also for competitive and financial disclosure reasons.

Lessons for planners from the 2016 campaign

Thursday, May 4, 2017 · Larry Lapide
Business forecasters and planners can learn from the mistakes of the pollsters in the 2016 presidential election.

How to Build an Agile Supply Chain: Lessons from the Best Companies

Thursday, January 19, 2017 · SCMR Staff
One of the top priorities for executives today is improving the agility of their supply chain. Join this webinar to learn the keys to achieving a truly agile supply chain and best practices of leading companies.
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