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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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Tending the Organizational Garden

How often have we seen management initiate change with great enthusiasm and expectation and then passively manage the process to…

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Quarter End

It is September 30, 2009.  It is the end of the Quarter.  Funny things happen to the Supply Chain at…

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Be a Great Supply Chain Leader: Simplify

Earlier this year, I saw a quote in The Reader’s Digest attributed to Colin Powell. Great leaders are almost always…

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Demand Planning & Inventory Management: It is everywhere … I can’t escape it!

I was having lunch at a Bagel shop in downtown Lake Forest, IL yesterday.  I was enjoying my sandwich and…

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Is Your Company a SLOB – Part 2

In our posting "Is Your Company a SLOB - Part 1," we reviewed the subject of excess and obsolete (E&O)…

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Is Your Company a SLOB – Part 1

In the world of inventory management, there is a term Excess & Obsolete, E&O, used to designate two classes of…

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