The healthcare sector is reexamining how to build greater flexibility into supply chains while preserving efficiency and preparing for future shocks to the system. Sharing best practices can uncover ...

The ongoing impacts of COVID-19 have left many companies not fully recovered, and with a global recession now looming two and half years later, the prospect of a worldwide economic downturn is ...

Demand management requires the analysis of large amounts of data to create statistical forecasts, manage internal demand-shaping programs, and execute real-time demand sensing. To develop better plans ...

Precision has become one of the most valuable strategic assets a company can possess. Whether forecasting demand for the next major book release or balancing production across global supply chains, ...

I think most people would agree that supply chains have experienced significant disruption in recent years. Most notably, according to respondents in the Gartner Supply Chain Disruption Management and ...

Supply chain forecasting was never an easy process. Millions of dollars were lost each year due to inventory overstock and understock even before the Covid-19 pandemic. Forecasting grows even more ...

Whether your business is electronic-based or a traditional brick-and-mortar building, your supply-chain goals are the same -- to efficiently deliver goods and services to your customers in the right ...

To make good returns in your business, you must understand how much you should produce and when. Demand planning and forecasting is a supply chain management process that includes the process of ...

“Retailers today find it increasingly challenging to manage demand planning, allocation, replenishment and forecasting due to supply chain disruptions such as labor shortages and rising inflation,” ...

Analyst Insight: As parcel networks normalize post-pandemic but cost structures evolve, forecasting and demand planning have become continuous, data-driven disciplines. Shippers that integrate ...

Although companies have invested enormous sums on advanced planning and scheduling, forecasting, master planning and similar systems to improve supply-chain effectiveness, every day things still can - ...