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Creating the link between better supply chain planning and decisions.
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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
Supply Chain 2015 Year In Review
Happy New Year! As we look back at 2015 from a supply chain perspective, digital supply chains seem to show up very prominently. In this blog, let us look at some of the trends in the supply chain space that came to be in 2015.
Lesson from an Aging Jedi Knight – Ask and Re-Ask – What is the purpose of the Model?
In a place and time far-far away, before spreadsheets, laptops, even color display units – where typewriters were common and
Managing Your Supply Chain Career
In the last few years, more and more people are getting involved in the field of supply chain. By some estimates, around 26% of all jobs are related to supply chain. With so many people involved in the supply chain, a good question to ask is this: How should one manage their supply chain career. This blog post sheds some light on the subject.
The Balanced Scorecard approach to ROI for your Supply Chain Planning Project
In my last post, I discussed how one should approach the calculation of ROI for a Supply Chain Planning Project.
