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This best practice guide highlights the key approaches for increasing responsiveness and efficiency in grocery retail supply chains.
Supply Chain Transformation: The Complete Guide leads you through the process of choosing and implementing the right supply chain planning system.
Stochastic planning has been presented as a result for tackling uncertainty in supply chains. Our whitepaper explains what it is and when and how to use it.
Retail is impacted by many factors, such as weather and cannibalization, that can be taken into account with the help of machine learning.
This white paper shows how accurately forecasting for short lifecycle products is possible through intelligent statistical modeling that uses data from previous product introductions.
16 % of large US grocery retailers still base their distribution center forecasts on historical data on outbound deliveries from these distribution centers. This is akin to driving a car while looking into the rearview...
Accurate forecasting is at the core of increased operational efficiency as it is key to accurately match resources, such as stock and personnel, with demand.
During my almost seven years working with space planning, I’ve faced almost every question there is to ask around the topic. One, however, seems to come up constantly “Can we use forecast data when making...
Predicting weather is not easy and rapid changes in weather can cause consumers to suddenly shop or cease to shop for specific products, which can quickly become costly for a retailer.
Sales promotion of one product impacts not only the sales of that product, but also products not in promotion.
“What would you consider a good level of forecast accuracy in our business?” is probably the single most frequent question we get from customers, consultants and other business experts alike.
Weather is a source of significant fluctuations in consumer demand. In this whitepaper, we’ll look at how retailers can optimally prepare for them.
Moving to omni-channel grocery retail adds new aspects to demand forecasting that need to be considered, e.g. how to forecast per sales and fulfillment channel, how to react to out-of-stocks, and how to optimize operations.
This complete guide explains the facets of forecasting and why forecast accuracy is a good servant but a poor master.
Moving from a traditional category-based model to using causal methods increases promotion forecasting accuracy and supports promotion planning.
With any new market a retailer has to understand how the supply chain will evolve and differ from their usual operation.
RELEX combines time-series, regression and machine learning forecasts to achieve great levels of accuracy in diverse situations.
In February 2016, France became the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away or destroying unsold food.
Over the years almost every single retail initiative has had forecasting and replenishment at its core.
Easter is great, but for retail planners in particular Easter is also one of the most annoying annual events as its date moves every year.
Ask managers what causes them the most problems in the consumer product supply chain – and the most common answer you’ll get is “promotion management”.
Sometime it can seem as though your suppliers are going out of their way to making buying their stuff unnecessarily difficult.
The challenges of Christmas vary from sector to sector. Here’s the big secret: think of Christmas as a process, not an event.
The basic idea of bullwhip effect is that most supply chains have internal dynamics that enforce demand volatility.
Why thinking about how to make your supply chain planning worse can help you make it much, much better.
Coping with changes in the rate of sale is a must in the current retail environment.