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Cross Purposes: Does demand planning belong with merchandising or supply chain?

The Network Effect

Who does the Demand Planning group report to?”. The goal of the demand planning process is to create a sales forecast that is as accurate and unbiased as possible. In retail, the process of coming up with a forecast is typically a “joint effort” between the Category Manager and the Supply Chain Planner.

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ERP vs. Best-in-Class — What is Best for Managing the Healthcare Supply Chain

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A purpose-built solution can enforce proper governance and standards, automate master data optimization activities, identify product standardization opportunities, and automate category management for strategic sourcing in supply chain. Demand planning capabilities.

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The Beautiful Complexity of Procurement Planning

The Good Spending

Our colleagues tend to accept the business demand for granted and not try to understand or, God forbid, challenge it. When discussing value generation , we mainly mention category management, stakeholder relationships, and supplier innovation. The lion's share of procurement value could be created in the planning stage.

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What About Procurement Objectives?

Procurement Templates

Implement category management to gain deeper market expertise and create tailored sourcing strategies. Revolutionize Operational Processes Adopt Predictive Procurement: Use AI-driven forecasting tools for demand planning and market trend analysis.

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Hepsiburada – E-Commerce Retailer

Solvoyo

Demand Planning and Pricing Solutions for Category Management Hepsiburada achieved automated forecasting and inventory optimization, supplementing historical sales data with web searches, click rates and conversion. The post Hepsiburada – E-Commerce Retailer appeared first on Solvoyo.

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The Big Interview with Lorna Baker

Procurement Heads

We’re a centralised indirects procurement team with category management being introduced where it can in order to support the parts of the business where we need subject specialism. What are the roles and responsibilities the procurement function holds within Futures Housing Group?

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Critical differences between IT procurement and legacy sourcing

The Good Spending

High complexity of demand management As we know, the procurement process starts with demand planning and analysis. In the IT department itself, such planning is challenging. Notably, almost every project is unique regarding subject-matter expertise and sourcing strategy.