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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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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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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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February 17, 2010

Leadership From The Top

Kaoru Ishikawa is one of the most famous Japanese Quality Control thinkers, teachers, and authors. His books What is Total…

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DemandCaster
February 4, 2010

Thinking Part 1: Statistical Thinking

The concept of Statistical Thinking has always appealed to me since I first heard it back in the late 1970s…

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DemandCaster
January 1, 2010

Whatever happened to JIT? – Take Two.

Out of all the blog postings and LinkedIn discussions, the 12-22-09 “Whatever happened to JIT?” generated the richest discussion on…

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DemandCaster
December 23, 2009

Whatever happened to JIT?

Just-in-Time (JIT) was all the rage twenty years ago.  People were studying the Toyota Production System, synchronizing their production plans…

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DemandCaster
December 10, 2009

Just Order what You Need

We were putting up the holiday lights on the bushes along our front walk. We were sorting through strings checking…

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December 4, 2009

Policy vs. Common Sense

My good friend Guillermo Fernandez, the retired General Manager of Colgate-Palmolive Mexico, would always say: "Common sense, the most uncommon…

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