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How Replenishment+ Solves Planners’ Biggest Problems

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Production and inventory planners are critical to today’s companies, helping maximize resources and boost productivity throughout the manufacturing process. Their work affects a number of other departments, from warehouses and production facilities to finance, sales, and logistics. What do planners do all day? The results of a planner’s work are visible in the form of … Read more

Does DDMRP Apply to SMEs?

Agility is in the genes of SMEs  Small and medium-sized enterprises, or SMEs, are an essential component of the industrial and commercial dynamism of the global economy. The first characteristic of successful SMEs is agility: they rely on tight teams, interactions between industrial, technical, and commercial functions are permanent, and the silos are less compartmentalized than in many … Read more

6 Keys to a Successful DDMRP Supply Chain Transformation

DDMRP implementation has long been the domain of experimentation, pilots and deployments of limited scope. With a few exceptions, small and medium-sized enterprises, with faster decision-making processes, were the first a few years ago to adopt the methodology, as well as isolated sites of larger companies. Over the past two to three years, a new … Read more

DDMRP for the Automotive Supply Chain: Beyond Kanban Techniques

Since the 1990s, the Western automotive industry has widely adopted the practices derived from the Toyota production system. 5S, continuous improvement is the daily life of automotive suppliers.Pull flow – formerly known as Just in Time – is at the heart of these practices. It is facilitated by the fact that the automotive upstream supply … Read more

What is Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP)?

A Beginner’s Guide to Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP) DDMRP, or Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning, is the next generation planning and execution method that aims to control the supply chain of a business or enterprise. This method is based on the preservation and management of the flow of relevant information. DDMRP deals with … Read more