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It’s Still Just Lipstick on a Pig: The Challenges of Spreadsheet-Based Supply Chain Planning
Productivity tools are wonderful inventions used for their intended purpose, making writing, calculating, and presenting information much easier and faster.…
Order Up! Constrained Capacity Production Leveling for Food and Beverage Manufacturers
The food and beverage industry continues to encounter new challenges and compound those already unique to their world. Fertilizer shortages,…
Wanted: Supply Chain Planning Top Model
There’s more to a much-anticipated release of a new fashion line than the stroll down the catwalk. Thousands of details,…
The ABCs of Machine Learning in Demand Forecasting
Accurate demand forecasting is crucial to the success of any manufacturing company. It ensures companies have the right amount of…
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Supply Chain Planning in a Recession
Even before COVID-19 brought unprecedented disruption to supply chains, business leaders were expecting a recession. In 2019, Bloomberg estimated a…
Three Keys to Agility
Agility is defined as ‘the ability to move quickly and easily’. And over the last few years, agile methodology has…
Capacity Planning in Today’s Uncertain Environment
Simply put, ‘capacity planning’ is the process businesses use to make decisions on how much capacity is needed to meet…
Safety Stock How Much is Too Much (or too Little)?
Do we really know how to get levels of safety stock balanced? Here’s a good analogy that might explain things.…
A Bridge too Far – Why ERP Systems Alone Short Change Supply Chain Planning
In business, the search for a “convergence” of devices and software allowing a single solution to address all problems has…
How DemandCaster Became a Trusted Name in the Supply Chain Planning World
While Plex Systems DemandCaster continues to provide the supply chain planning world with a robust software product that helps businesses…
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