Guest Post by
Bob Ferrari, the Founder and Executive Editor of the Supply Chain Matters Blog, and a periodic guest blogger on the Infosys Supply Chain Management blog.
In late November Supply Chain Matters penned a guest commentary on the Infosys Supply Chain Management blog that outlined our belief that retailers should anticipate different ...
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The Real Headline for the 2011 Holiday Buying Season- Need for Balancing Retailer Online and Fulfillment Process Investments
OK, now I can say it. I came to Kinaxis because I was suffering from a widespread and very serious condition – DPSS – disparate planning systems syndrome. The biggest problem with DPSS is that people don't know that there is a cure. But there is!
First, what are the symptoms of DPSS?
The most obvious symptom [...]
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My first 90 days - Day 51: Introducing RapidResponse Control Tower
Guest Post ByBob Ferrari, Executive Editor, Supply Chain Matters blog
I read a rather insightful Gartner First Thing Monday commentary published at the end of August which was penned by Jim Shepard. This commentary which was titled: Multi-enterprise Commerce Is Still a Problem Searching for a Coherent Solution, was a follow-up to a "storm ...
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Multi-Enterprise Capabilities Are Not About Labels But Required Capabilities
Response Management is all about what you do when what you planned to do (forecast) does not match what is happening (actuals). This can be applied to any forecast, whether that is the traditional sales forecast of the number of units sold in a region, the projected cash position of a company, the expected completion [...]
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The importance of Response Management
Let me start this post with a teaser:
You have 20 light bulbs in your house and they are all the same kind, made by the same manufacturer. The bulbs are used for eight hours a day. The light bulb packaging indicates that each bulb has a burning life of 1000 hours and the fine print [...]
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Service Parts Planning 101
The theme of this year's Gartner CIO Leadership forum that was held in March 2011 has been a great influence to write this blog. "Creative Destruction" is what they called it and you can find more details on the subject here. The theme though it reflects a negative undertone is intended to convey the requirement that CIOs need to create the future ...
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Can you re-imagine IT for SCM?
A recent article over on the CPO Agenda on how the CPO is an agent for change pointed out that, at many organizations, the CPO is getting a broader realm of responsibility as she has to be well versed in change management to succeed at her job. In particular, many CPOs are now being tasked with logistics, risk, revenue, demand management, IT, ...
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Will Procurement Heads Also Be Responsible for Facilities and CSR?
By rss@sdcexec.com (By Editorial Staff) /
sdcexec.com, posted on 04/18/2011 at 7:33 AM
Demand management solution enhances Junction Solutions' vertical-specific solution set for retail and aligns with the company's on-demand strategy
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Junction Solutions Inks Global Partnership with JustEnough Software
OMG! High school reunion, this will be a blast! LOL! Not my post but none the less I quickly found out about a planned reunion from some folks I haven't seen or talked to in years. There are more iPad releases in a year than there are conversations I have with some Facebook acquaintances but [...]
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OMG! Social media and the supply chain…LMAO!
Attribute based forecast generation can be defined as using the common attributes of a particular group of products to more accurately forecast future demand at the individual SKU level. Forecasting is part science and part art, so the more we can move the analysis to the science side, the better we are able to develop [...]
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The benefits of attribute based forecast generation
