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Supply Chain Talk: 5 Fundamentals for Building a Collaborative Supply Chain
In this week’s Supply Chain Talk, Arkieva CEO, Harpal Singh discusses the key fundamental building blocks for creating a collaborative supply chain.
What-if Wednesday: Multiplicative Forecast Simulation Using Alpha
In this week's What-if Wednesday post, Arkieva Supply Chain Optimization Consultant - Abhishek Shah - shares the results of a what-if demand forecast simulation using the Winters multiplicative alpha parameter.
Supply Chain Talk: Why Your Supply Chain Planning Team Isn’t Working
The supply chain planning team is an integral part of a functional supply chain execution (SCE). How an organization is structured can affect the overall supply chain process. In this week’s, Supply Chain Talk, Arkieva CEO Harpal Singh discusses how organizational supply chain planning structures can be improved.
The ‘Secret Sauce’ to Improving Demand Planning
How do you get the sense of what works for demand planning? Market volatilities including changes in the weather can affect any business at any given time. As such, businesses cannot rely on their history alone without considering the full picture of possible market changes. When these changes occur, businesses should be ready to adapt without causing a disruption in existing business processes. So how to do you get to the point where you get a sense of what works when it comes to demand planning?
8 Common Issues to Avoid When Creating a Customer Segmentation Strategy
Thinking about creating a customer segmentation strategy? Here are 8 common pitfalls to avoid. Customer segmentation provides a strategic way for aligning services and profitability. For businesses looking to improve bottom line results and the cash conversion cycle, creating an effective customer segmentation process is invaluable.
4 Effective Strategies for Creating a Robust Scheduling Process
Creating a robust scheduling process that adheres to the overall S&OP plan is essential to reducing inventory costs and excess waste. In this week’s, Supply Chain Talk, Arkieva CEO Harpal Singh, outlines four effective strategies for creating a robust scheduling process.
Supply Chain Lessons from Disney: A Supply Chain Rookie Report
Supply Chain Lessons from Disney: What if we looked at supply chain management through the lens of Walt Disney?
What-if Wednesday: Statistical Forecasting with Damping Factors
In the previous What-if Wednesday previous posts, we experimented with the three parameters of Holt-Winters method, namely; alpha, beta, and gamma. This week we are going to run some tests with the damping factor.
Supply Chain Talk: Integrating Finance and Operations – What You Should Know
How can operations and finance better collaborate to achieve the common goal of profitability? In this week's Supply Chain Talk, Arkieva CEO Harpal Singh discusses ways that manufacturers can reduce the disconnect between operations and finance.
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