If you’re in the supply chain business, right up there with Newton’s law of gravity stands Murphy’s other law stipulating that demand and supply, if left to their own tendencies, will always tend to diverge and get you in trouble.
Welcome to the world of predictive demand and supply planning whose mission is to predict imbalances as far in advance as possible, in order to provide ample time and opportunity to design and implement corrective sales and operations solutions. The more time we allow for resolving forecasted imbalances, the greater the number of potential cost-effective solutions. So how do we design a system for identifying potential issues and expressing them via a commonly understood key process indicator (KPI) where the cause and effect of our actions can be readily measured?
Author: Lonnie Childs
Source: TechnologyEvaluation.com
Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Operations
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