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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.…

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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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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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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 Physics I

At DemandCaster, we have developed a concept called Supply Chain Physics. We use this concept to foster communication and accountabilities…

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Constancy of Purpose

Recently I was engaged in a discussion where someone floated the idea Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma initiatives are…

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Is Inventory an Independent Variable? Is the Earth Flat?

Business can be defined in many ways. But one thing is clear; businesses are judged and valued by numbers. Businesses…

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Halloween Logistics

Halloween and Logistics? Why of course. Halloween is a season and retailers plan for the peak. Think of Walgreen’s and…

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Demand Planning and Inventory Management: It is everywhere… I can’t escape it. Version 2.0

  Ah yes… this is another case of my focus on Inventory Management creeping into everything I do. Last time…

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Is your inventory putting you in a constraint jacket?

Let’s look at Inventory Optimization as a mathematical programming problem. You remember linear programming from a Quantitative Methods or Operations…

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