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It’s Still Just Lipstick on a Pig: The Challenges of Spreadsheet-Based Supply Chain Planning

DemandCaster
March 28, 2023

Productivity tools are wonderful inventions used for their intended purpose, making writing, calculating, and presenting information much easier and faster.…

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DemandCaster
March 14, 2023

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,…

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DemandCaster
February 28, 2023

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,…

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DemandCaster
February 14, 2023

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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DemandCaster
July 20, 2010

Optimizing the Cash to Cash Cycle

In the Supply Chain, we worry about service, inventory, and execution.  Do we have the right products, in the right…

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DemandCaster
July 2, 2010

Tampering: Demand & Inventory Planning

Last week, we posted a blog re-introducing Deming’s concept of tampering.  This week we will explore the how tampering creeps…

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DemandCaster
June 21, 2010

Tampering: What is it? Why is it bad?

Tampering is concept that W. Edwards Deming popularized and used often in his lectures.  It is an important and yet…

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DemandCaster
April 5, 2010

An Alternative Definition of Quality Control: Part 2

The Quality Approach to achieve this alternative definition of quality is to follow the basic tenets of Total Quality.  In…

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DemandCaster
March 31, 2010

An Alternative Definition of Quality Control

In his book, Introduction to Quality, Kaoru Ishikawa defined quality in the following way: An alternative definition of QC could…

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DemandCaster
February 26, 2010

Thinking Part 2: Optimal Thinking

I recently expounded the concept of Statistical Thinking whereby people, particularly, business people should develop and nurture a conceptual understanding of…

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