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Transform Your Supply Chain to Meet Consumer Demand

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

Supply Chain White Paper, Manufacturers in 2023 need to adapt to uncertainty and resource limitations by implementing Unified Logistics, which optimizes manufacturing logistics networks, increases collaboration, and provides inbound and outbound visibility and control, ultimately giving them a competitive advantage in winning customers.

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Is a shelf-connected supply chain possible with traditional ERP?

The Network Effect

To gain insight into consumer demand (i.e. Knowing that a shortage of inventory is the key reason for new product launch failures, it is crucial to ensure that retailers have the right mix, volumes, and locations of inventories to meet customer demand. The post Is a shelf-connected supply chain possible with traditional ERP?

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How to interpret demand-sensing data

The Network Effect

From a demand sensing perspective, this could be the most important data set since we need to predict what consumer demand would have been on the days the inventory was not available on the shelf. If you’re impatient though, I suggest you read the new white paper, What is Demand Sensing?

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Forecasting in a Shelf-Connected Supply Network

The Network Effect

The vision of the demand-driven value network is simply to design a process to drive the upstream supply network based on actual end-customer demand, basically the sell-through to consumers, rather than what is typically used, which is shipments, or the sell-in to the Distribution Centers (DCs) and retail stores.

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Master data management and the hidden costs of customer service

The Network Effect

These investments are a necessary by-product of an ERP style architecture that forces multiple enterprise silos to plan, forecast, order, replenish, ship, reconcile and invoice across multiple parties through various supply network echelons in order to satisfy the actual consumer demand signal….which This is where MDM comes in.

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Digital Twinning of Supply Chains!

Supply Chain Game Changer

In this Digital Twinning white paper, I have used the term digital twinning in the context of the inherent characteristics of the supply chain that are captured in a digital model. I hope that you get more insights from reading this Digital Twinning white paper and that it provides some mapping in your digital supply chain journey.

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The Inventory Planners Guide to Managing Product Life Cycle

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Decline – After a product has reached its maturity stage, sooner or later sales will fall due to changes in consumer demand or due to newer product offerings being supplied to the market competitor products. Download your free copy of our white paper here! Different products have different growth and decline patterns.