John Hughes
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A Demand Forecasting Checklist That Can Save Your Career
Embarking on a demand forecasting project is usually a somewhat frightening challenge especially if you were the one pushing for the change….
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Debunking the Myths of Demand Forecasting
Putting a new forecasting system in place usually meets with a good deal of resistance for a variety of reasons – some…
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Why Have a Supply Chain Information Repository?
Big data and corporate data warehouses have been expanding exponentially with information that’s not exactly a benefit to the operations and supply…
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Analyzing and Managing Supply Chain Risks
The financial health of an enterprise today is directly dependent upon the health of their supply chain. With that exposure, it is…
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Creating and Executing an Inventory Plan
Inventory is one of the largest assets on the balance sheet of most manufacturing and distribution companies ― understandably making it a…
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Setting Sail With Sales & Operations Planning – Part 2
In Part 1 of “Setting Sail with Sales & Operations Planning” I discussed the wide variety of reasons companies move toward a…
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Setting Sail With Sales & Operations Planning – Part 1
A number of business challenges are driving more and more companies to formally embrace Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). While the benefits…
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Determining the ROI of Forecasting Systems
Estimating the Return-On-Investment (ROI) for a new demand forecasting system can be difficult and requires an appreciation of the downstream impacts of more…
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Forecasting Information Hub Drives Supply Chain Efficiency
From a manufacturer’s perspective, the effectiveness of relationships with suppliers usually nets out to be a function of price, availability and dependability…
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Dashboards: Linking key metrics across the enterprise
How dashboards can help you gain greater visibility into corporate performance Never before has there been more data available to senior executives…