For any entity to thrive, it must constantly reassess its ideas and positions. And if your customers are constantly evolving, expecting better results faster and reassessing their needs and values — shouldn’t your firm?
Supply Chain Strategies
Strategies for supply chain including …
Demanding Times: Next Generation Demand Management
Achieving excellence in demand management-discovering, creating, growing, and fulfilling demand-is the core of market leadership. In the 90’s, many saw APS systems and later CPFR as the ‘holy grail’ to solve forecasting and demand management problems. While these did result in some improvements, here we are a decade later, and many companies have thrown up their hands, accepting poor forecast accuracies, to focus almost exclusively on execution improvements and lead-time reductionas the only way to improve demand management.