We’ve worked hard over the years to make the Arkieva blog a go-to destination for insights on supply chain analytics, supply chain planning best practices, the S&OP process and beyond. Here are some of our most popular blogs – and a few evergreen touchstones – that have resonated with readers over the last year.
This Year’s Top Blogs
2024 Gartner Critical Capabilities Report Supply Chain Planning Recognizes Arkieva
The Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Supply Chain Planning report is an essential guide for organizations evaluating their current supply chain planning solutions or considering new supply chain planning software. This blog looks deeper at the importance of the Critical Capabilities Report and what Arkieva’s prominent ranking in the 2024 edition means for our existing and prospective customers.
S&OP (sales and operations planning) is a supply chain acronym you never want to overlook. This blog explains how the S&OP process works and examines how this critical cross-functional process, if performed properly, can lead to increased revenues and profitability.
A Journey Through Safety Stocks, Part 10
Since 2022, we’ve been following the hypothetical but relatable story of Jane, a newly promoted inventory planner, and Kate, a consultant who has been helping Jane to understand the concepts of safety stock calculation. In part 10 of this ongoing series, Jane and Kate look at how inventory planning can be impacted by supply quantity variability.
Demand Planning Best Practices: Practical Advice for Harmonizing Demand and Supply
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to demand planning, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some common areas of focus you can address to make demand modeling more accurate and demand management more efficient. This blog, one of our continuing “best practices” series, digs into some of the top tweaks you can make to your process.
How to Improve Forecast Accuracy
Accurate forecast modeling is essential to helping a business plan for the future. The need for better forecasting has spurred a significant investment in tools over the last 30 years – but the desire for more accurate forecasts persists. This blog examines the trends and includes a link to a free webinar in which our chief operating officer Sujit Singh takes a deep dive into the topic, exploring do’s and don’ts and discussing techniques that can help organizations achieve better demand forecast results.
Wisdom From Blogs Past
Some Basics on the Value of S Curves and Market Adoption of a New Product
Predicting demand for new products is an ongoing challenge for any company, especially when the product incorporates technology or replaces an existing product but the additional function relative to the original version is limited. This is where the mathematical construction known as the “S curve” comes into play. This blog provides an overview of S curves and why they can be so helpful.
Everything You Need to Know About Demand Forecasting
Demand forecasting uses historical sales data to develop an estimate to forecast customer demand. It’s important because critical business assumptions like turnover, profit margins, cash flow, capital expenditure, risk assessment and mitigation plans and capacity depend on it. This blog walks through the basics and provides an overview of the major types and methods of demand forecasting.
The Relationship Between Forecast Accuracy and Safety Stocks
Because its designated purpose is to deal with the variability of demand or supply, safety stock is not always linked to forecasting accuracy. In this blog, we dig deeper into this complex relationship and lay out a formula companies can use to calculate safety stock based on forecast error.
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