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Theory & Practice (Demand Planning)

The Network Effect

An idea that a hockey-loving French Canadian, an American MRP guru and a couple of process designers from a large Canadian retailer had. At the time a theory that the retail supply chain could be seamlessly connected by a single forecast only at product store level.

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7 Principles of Supply Chain Management Explained

Supply Chain Opz

3) Align Demand Planning Across Supply Chain. Supply chain practitioners are taught to share the demand data with trading partners so nobody has to keep the unnecessary stock. But in the reality, only Walmart is actively sharing the demand data to trading partners. best of supplychainopz.