Forecasting & Demand Planning

Convenience Store Client Maximizes Profit and Improves Customer Service

December 1, 2022

Challenge: Despite significant growth, a major convenience store (c-store) chain had inventory management challenges.

Digital Supply Chain Management: What's the Cost of Doing Nothing? Learn Why a Digital Supply Chain is Critical for Manufacturing and Wholesale Distribution Businesses.

April 28, 2021

NetSuite

Why it's more important than ever for manufacturers and distributors to automate their supply chains, or pay the high costs associated with not going digital.

The New Demand Planning: Leveraging CRM for Post-Pandemic Supply Chain Success

April 1, 2021

River Rock Advisors

In this ebook, Dave Nelson, principal at value chain optimization firm River Rock Advisors discusses the use of customer relationship management (CRM) processes and tools to pilot a precision-based, in-depth use of data to forecast demand while giving leaders greater insight into their customer base.

Five Problems With Today’s Demand Planning — and How to Solve Them

February 2, 2021

GEP

With the coronavirus pandemic and its lingering effects, companies have now experienced how challenging it can be to plan and maneuver their supply chains around uniquely disruptive, once-in-a-lifetime events. But the unfortunate truth is that less severe events overwhelm or undermine supply planning all the time. Legacy tools are no longer up to the task of getting supply where it is needed most.

Connecting Strategy to Execution With Integrated Strategy Management

December 7, 2020

Oliver Wight

Five key elements of Integrated Strategy Management help to execute corporate plans and drive financial results.

Multi-Shipper Management Tools Help Retail Fulfillment Solution Providers Meet Their Clients' Complex Parcel Shipping Needs

December 3, 2020

Pierbridge

In the face of rising B2C costs, volumes and capacity constraints, shippers have to re-engineer their fulfillment processes to accommodate last-mile parcel delivery.

A Retailer's Guide to Turning Shipping Into a Competitive Advantage

December 3, 2020

Pierbridge

Here's how a multi-carrier parcel shipping management solution can help keep costs in line.

How Driscoll's Is Tilling Its Demand Chain for Food’s Data-Driven Future

November 20, 2020

GEP

Ever since access to ubiquitous real-time data emerged as a technological reality, businesses have been lured by the possibility of redirecting their supply chains toward a model driven by demand. Applying analytics software to make sense of big data could allow organizations to close the gap between demand and supply.