Since many of us will be losing an hour this Sunday when Daylight Savings Time begins, let’s go straight to this week’s news so that we can get an early start to the weekend:
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Categories : Mergers-Acquistions, Mobile Technologies, Supply Chain Planning, This Week in News
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There is a lot of talk these days about bringing off-shored manufacturing operations and jobs back to the United States. The narrative is “We have high unemployment in this country, the cost advantage of manufacturing in China and elsewhere is shrinking, and we can’t afford to become even more dependent on foreign countries for manufactured goods, so let’s bring these operations and jobs back home.”
It’s a good, simple-to-understand… Continue reading
It is common to speak of a “one number” demand forecast. And a “one number” forecast works fine if your demand forecast and your manufacturing planning are based on the same time period. For example, if you do a monthly forecast and the plant uses it to plan production for the entire month, then there is no inconsistency.
But a lot can happen in a month.
I was… Continue reading
I’m sitting at the Atlanta airport, low on caffeine, and my plane to Boston boards in t-minus 28 minutes. So, today’s news roundup and analysis will be relatively short; make sure your seatbelts are securely fastened…
Last week, we held our “Beyond the Perfect Order Metric” seminar in sunny Orlando, and by all measures (no pun intended), it was a successful event. More than twenty companies were represented, including executive speakers from Del Monte, Kraft Foods, Sony, Lowe’s, and Whirlpool. At the kick off, I told the attendees that learning is not a passive activity, and I encouraged them to ask lots of questions and to… Continue reading
Categories : Business Intelligence, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Mobile Technologies, Replenishment, Retail, Supply Chain Planning
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