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Supply Chain Talk: Controlling Working Capital and Inventory – Is There a Pot of Gold at The End of the Rainbow?
How can businesses improve working capital management? In this week’s ‘Supply Chain Talk’, Arkieva CEO Harpal Singh discusses how to identify inventory buffer factors to help control working capital fluctuations.
Using Profit based Product Segmentation for Planning
Here's how you can use profit based product segmentation to improve the supply chain planning process.
A 6-Step Guide to Improving Your Statistical Forecast Technique
Statistical forecasts are often used as the baseline forecast for demand planning. Due to this reason, statistical forecast accuracy is critical to improving the entire demand planning process. Use this easy step by step statistical forecast technique guide to help you get started with improving your forecasts.
Demand Forecasting: The Art and Science That Keeps You Guessing
“It is said that the present is pregnant with the future” – Voltaire Forecasting, therefore, is an attempt to deduce the future from the present. It is both, art and science. We will explore the practice of forecasting demand in the short to medium term. Within the constraints of economic and technology trends, demand forecasting drives the planning process in most businesses.
It’s Planned – A Supply Chain Planning Poem
To celebrate great poetry reading day today, we decided to take a break from our usual Friday Supply Chain Talk to try some poetry instead.
What’s the cost of doing nothing? Easy tips for uncovering problems before they turn into disasters
Is there a need to act if no ‘imminent’ repercussions exist? Can you be a more proactive problem solver? In this 3-part blog series, we’ll cover how proactive problem solving can help your team and business stay ahead of the curve, improve productivity, and avoid costly problems in the short and long term.
Supply Chain Talk: Do You Have a Supply Chain Knowledge Repository?
In this week’s Supply Chain Talk, Arkieva CEO Harpal Singh discusses the importance of having a data repository for supply chain planning.
What-if Wednesday: Forecast Parameter Simulation – Beta Multiplicative Method
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 beta parameter.
When Demand Planning Goes Wrong: Lessons Learned from United Airlines Overbooking Issue
What demand planning lessons can we learn from the recent United Airlines Overbooking Issue?
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