Collaborative demand planning in the time of coronavirus
“Toilet paper makers must be happy,” says a friend of mine. “The demand for notebooks must have increased a lot with the […]
HOW TO DETECT PROBLEMS IN COLLABORATIVE DEMAND PLANNING WITH SIMPLE METRICS
Why plan? Why try to predict the future, if the market is so volatile and unpredictable? Why not just meet […]
THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN S&OP
S&OP¹ is a joint decision-making process, which aims to balance demand and supply by integrating sales, operations and […]
SUPPLY STRATEGIES IN FASHION RETAIL
Large fashion retail companies have been driving their sales growth in recent years by expanding their store network. […]
ANALYSIS OF THE DEMAND AND S&OP PLANNING PROCESS IN BRAZILIAN COMPANIES – PART 2
In the first part of the presentation of the research results on Demand Planning and S&OP1 in Brazilian Companies, a brief […]
ANALYSIS OF THE DEMAND AND S&OP PLANNING PROCESS IN BRAZILIAN COMPANIES – PART 1
The opening of the market and economic stabilization produced profound changes in the Brazilian consumer market in the last two decades and, consequently, brought […]
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT – OPPORTUNITIES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF FINANCIAL AND INFORMATION FLOWS
The doubt regarding the limits of the concepts of Integrated Logistics and Supply Chain Management has generated a series of misinterpretations […]
JUDGMENT AND DECISION-MAKING PROBLEMS IN MEETING THE DEMAND
Demand planning activities can be divided into two stages: statistical analysis of historical data and managerial interpretation of information […]
APPLICATION OF SIMULATION AS A TOOL TO SUPPORT THE ELABORATION OF A STRATEGIC CAPACITY PLANNING
Capacity is “the volume of output that a system is able to achieve in a specific period of time” (Yang, 2001). To the […]
IMPACTS OF TOP-DOWN AND BOTTOM-UP APPROACHES ON FORECAST ERROR VARIANCE WITH SIMPLE EXPONENTIAL SMOOTHING
This article aims to measure the impact of the Top-Down and Bottom-up approaches on the sales forecast error variance with […]
SALES AND OPERATIONS PLANNING – A SIMPLE WAY TO GAIN FROM INTERNAL INTEGRATION
The breakdown of functional silos and the integration between the different areas of the companies, as well as the adoption of a vision by […]
CHALLENGES FOR IMPLEMENTING COLLABORATION INITIATIVES IN THE DEMAND PLANNING PROCESS – PART 2
In the first part of this text, the main drivers for the implementation of collaborative initiatives in the planning process of […]
