If a supply chain transformation project reduces inventory by X%, how much money will it save? To answer the question, we must first understand our inventory carrying costs. Here’s how.
Your company’s operational efficiency depends on its ability to set smart supply chain priorities. Here are four tips for avoiding conflicts.
It often seems like supply chain executives are too busy trying to improve forecast accuracy to wonder: would it really change the game?
The supply chain world has developed powerful algorithms, but they are running on fuzzy data. What’s a manager to do?
Most manufacturers use Distribution Resource Planning, or DRP, to replenish global distribution networks. But DRP doesn’t always put stock in the right place — and makes it much harder to manage scarcity. Is there a better way?
The world is complicated. Your production order routings don’t have to be — even if you manufacture both to stock and to order and have dozens of workstations, operations, and floating bottlenecks. Here’s why.
Your supply chain management model must be adapted to the profile of your production flows. Learn more about the four most common typologies — and how to pace them to market demand.
An entire industry thrives on the quest for the holy grail of reliable forecasting. But what happens when we look more closely at probabilistic, statistical, and AI-driven forecasting methods?
Great supply chain leaders often have a taste for action, collaboration, and continuous improvement. But what’s the most important skill for a supply chain leader to have?
In Tetris, colored bricks fall from the top of the screen. It’s up to you to orient them as they fall, so they fit into each other. The role of a production planner is very similar.
What if your customer service team had cross-functional visibility into manufacturing priorities, exceptions, date promises, and progress in key queues?
There are three types of buffers that help manufacturers deal with variability: stock, time, and capacity. Which is the most powerful?
