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Forecasting in a Shelf-Connected Supply Network

The Network Effect

Using this method means a price must be paid in lost sales along with excess and obsolete inventory. This will also enable them to optimize both their production and distribution plans. The problem is this architecture simply isn’t designed to resolve issues in a timely fashion (e.g.

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3 Steps for Making Digital Transformation Happen in Supply Chain Planning

Solvoyo

In the case of CPG companies, this could mean looking for ways to link the inter-related decisions along the supply chain such as sudden peaks in demand updating future forecasts and triggering automatically changes for supply, either in way of purchase orders or production plans as well as dynamically updating the distribution plans.