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The ABCDs of an Excellent Supply Chain
What makes an Excellent Supply Chain? Are there certain key factors that can point to a supply chain being excellent? When asked this question, I thought of the list in this blog which I consolidated alphabetically under ABCD. I am hoping folks who read it will provide their own ideas via comments and together we will make this list the A to Z of an excellent supply chain.
Five principles for future Supply Chain Planners
Are you a current supply chain planner? Or are you fixing to become one? Have you wondered what makes someone a good supply chain planner? In this post, I have compiled 5 principles for supply chain planners to follow.
Forecasting: What Business wants from Academia
Are the researchers in the academic world aligned with the expectations and needs of the business world when it comes to the world of forecasting? Or are the two very different? What can the academe do that will be of value to the business folks? Read on to see some of my thoughts on this topic.
A better way to forecast using attribute based dynamic hierarchies
Have you ever wondered whether you should forecast: Bottom-up? Top-down? Middle-Out? It turns many in the demand planning profession do. Read along to see why you can do all of that and more with attribute based demand planning.
How to define your forecasting hierarchy
Should one forecast at the SKU-Customer-Location level and aggregate the results up? Or should one forecast at the product-family-region level and dis-aggregate the results down? Or should one do both and try to triangulate the results? Which method gives the best results to the business? Let us look at this together.
Welcome to Mangalore!
Mangalore, located on the west coast of India is the location for the Indian office of Arkieva. It is a great place to work, live, and visit. Enjoy this short write up about the city. And it is a food lover's paradise. You will enjoy reading this post from Ashith and Shefali.
Welcome to Antwerp
As mentioned in a previous blog here, Arkieva’s headquarters are located in Wilmington, Delaware, but it also has other offices worldwide.
How to drive a successful technology project
Have you gone through a software implementation in a large company? How much time did you spend in committees discussing things? What was the level of detail at which discussions were had? Do you think all that preparation got your firm better positioned for success? How were the results in the end? This blog post puts forward some ideas on making software implementations successful.
Asking key ROI questions
OK, I confess! I am thinking like a software provider when I use the words ROI questions. Maybe at times it
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