Disruption of Supply Chains : how to cope with demand?
If the health crisis led to a collapse of nearly 25% of manufacturing production in the spring of 2020; it has now bounced back and returned to a level...
Essilor – The secret of a global & robust S&OP process
In the previous article, we covered the Future of Digital Supply Chains, Agile, connected and sustainable and the QAD DynaSys senior product management team’s vision of Digital Supply Chain...
Supply Chain Event 2021 – Back to normal?
Lockdown, curfew, working from home office, buying everything online, “you are on mute”… for more than one year, we used those words more than ever before. After a 1/2...
What is Demand Planning?
Demand planning helps ensure deliverability and satisfaction of your customers through a supply chain management process of forecasting and predicting demand. The goal is to find the balance between...
Did you say “Black Friday”?
Let’s go back to the future… oops sorry no, 5 years ago (more or less)… another year, another company, another job, another home and another period. My current...
The Demand Planning cycle
The demand planning cycle is a supply chain management process that uses forecasting to understand the demand for products. It ensures that the products can be delivered to the...
Needs & Challenges for Digital Supply Chain Planning
In the previous article, we covered the Future of Digital Supply Chains, Agile, connected and sustainable. Let’s now focus on what’s NeXt! In this article, the QAD DynaSys senior...
Why is Demand Planning important?
In our article What is Demand Planning, we asked ourselves why is Demand Planning important? Prosperous businesses are able to plan for the peaks and valleys in their sales...
The Future of Digital Supply Chains
By 2025, more than 50% of supply chain organizations will have a technology leadership role reporting directly to the chief supply chain officer.(Gartner’s survey, February 2021) This percentage will...
Roles and responsibilities of demand planning
When deciding to strengthen your supply chain infrastructure, the question of roles and responsibilities of demand planning arises. Should demand planning be placed under supply chain management, sales, or...