A Smarter Approach to Planning & Scheduling In today’s fast-paced and unpredictable market, businesses must align operations with fluctuating demand while maintaining efficiency and resilience. Traditional APS systems have often failed due to their complexity, rigid optimization models, and excessive focus on cost reduction at the expense of operational flow. Intuiflow takes a fundamentally different … Read more
The virtues of anticipation As supply chain professionals, we’ve all been trained to think ahead. Forecasting sales, foreseeing capacities, material requirements, personnel needs – a good part of our activity is devoted, quite rightly, to anticipation. Of course, this is absolutely necessary: we need to prepare our company to meet future needs. Anticipating doesn’t mean … Read more
A effect bullwhip with no apparent cause. The bullwhip effect: supply chain practitioners know this phenomenon well – a slight change in demand downstream can create large fluctuations upstream, and conversely small delays upstream can create a catastrophe for downstream partners in the chain. In many cases, we are subjected to these shocks without understanding their … Read more
A recurring question is: what are the prerequisites for deploying Demand Driven tactics in the supply chain? Will it work with our ERP? Does this apply to our company? Do we first need to get a better grip on our MRP? I’ve heard this provocative answer from Carol Ptak several times: if you don’t have … Read more
