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Those years of feast and famine - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Describes the effects brought about when poor demand management is compounded by an inadequate MPS following a change in customer demand. MORE INFO: Those years of feast and famine Describes the effects brought about when poor demand management is compounded by an inadequate ... read article... |
Demand planning into the 21st century - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Describes how demand planning software will enable customers and suppliers to share information and co-operate with the flow of product through the supply chain. MORE INFO: Demand planning into the 21st century Describes how demand planning software will enable customers and ... read article... |
Predicting the future: Forecasting issues, problems and ideas - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Explores some of the issues of forecasting and the need for high quality supply-demand management in light of the current business focus on customer service and increasing competitive pressure. MORE INFO: Predicting the future: Forecasting issues, problems and ideas Explores ... read article... |
Planning to meet the customer demand - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Sales and Operations Planning must be a value added process as it masterminds the total supply chain. This article explores how mass customisation can be used to further improve the flow of material down the supply chain. MORE INFO: Planning to meet the customer demand Sales ... read article... |
Shrinking the supply chain uncertainty circle - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Any business operating within a product delivery supply chain is faced with an Uncertainty Circle. This is a major problem area and has four segments associated with it: the supply side, the manufacturing process, the control systems and the demand side. Whereas uncertainty caus... read article... |
APS Berk - from arbitration to agility - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Case study of an improvement programme undertaken by APS Berk, the UK's second largest generic pharmaceutical company MORE INFO: APS Berk - from arbitration to agility Case study of an improvement programme undertaken by APS Berk, the UK's second largest generic pharmaceutica... read article... |
Manufacturing Solutions Forum - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: This innovative event run in association with Enterprise Events will take place on Thursday 5th/Friday 6th November 1998 at Motorcycle Museum near to the NEC in Birmingham... MORE INFO: Manufacturing Solutions Forum This innovative event run in association with Enterprise Eve... read article... |
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ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Examines supply chain management in the pharmaceutical industry and how the need to make systems Y2K compliant allowed the introduction of new dependent demand solutions. MORE INFO: And who's your worst supplier? Handling interplant demand within the supply chain Examines sup... read article... |
Demand and supply patterns over the Millennium holiday - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The millennium experience will be with us in six months and as well as the Y2K computer bug problems, there are a number of other factors which will affect manufacturing companies supplying the retail market place... MORE INFO: Demand and supply patterns over the Millennium ho... read article... |
Forecasting and planning: the views of a change agent - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Examines the management processes, behaviours and disciplines that are the fundamental foundations of a successful demand planning process. MORE INFO: Forecasting and planning: the views of a change agent Examines the management processes, behaviours and disciplines that are ... read article... |
Letter: Tony Wild's March Correction - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Tony Wild's correction in the July/August issue of 'Control' to his letter in the March issue does not go quite far enough. His calculation of Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) is too large by a factor of 6 as he has inadvertently quoted the Sum of the Absolute Deviations (SAD) - th... read article... |
Supply chain integration - the future - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: In practically every industry sector trading patterns are rapidly changing from those of the past decade or two... MORE INFO: Supply chain integration - the future In practically every industry sector trading patterns are rapidly changing from those of the past decade or two.... read article... |
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ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: When asked by the MD for potential projects which could be included in a multi-site, European based ‘best in class’ project, the opportunity to re-ignite an old flame which had been smouldering in the back of my mind for many years was re-kindled. Departmental Purpose Analysis (... read article... |
Managing The Uncertainty In Customer Demand - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The fundamental question facing any organisation that needs to fulfil customer demand ‘ex stock’ is what that demand will be in the future... MORE INFO: Managing The Uncertainty In Customer Demand The fundamental question facing any organisation that needs to fulfil customer ... read article... |
A Shopkeeper's Tale - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: A very rich man was dismayed by the fact that his family spent all his hard earned cash in expensive shops. He begrudged the profit margin being made by the retailers so gave up his manufacturing company and set up his own exclusive shops for his family. As his shops were so exp... read article... |
Branch news: North West: Latest Thinking in Demand Management - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The evening of 9th December was hosted at Bentley Motors Training Academy in Crewe and chaired by Neil Towers, FIOM. MORE INFO: Branch news: North West: Latest Thinking in Demand Management The evening of 9th December was hosted at Bentley Motors Training Academy in Crewe and... read article... |
Short Product Life Cycle Planning - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The retail market today features highly variable product offerings together and an ever-widening range of goods, plus growing globalisation and volatility of consumer tastes. The ebb and flow of these forces often leave Retailers with the confounding presence of too many ‘... read article... |
Branch news: Thames Valley - Latest Thinking in Demand Management - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Our speaker had had a tough day at the office of two different customers. He was thirsty, so he ordered a pint to relieve his thirst. He was hungry, so he ordered a sandwich. “We can only do plain cheese, sir”, said the hotel waiter. “That will do fine”, ... read article... |
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ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Most topics under the banner of ERP and Supply Chain Management have probably been tackled by a number of authors. If any one topic has, perhaps, been avoided it is Demand Management. ERP and Supply Chain Management are about balancing demand and supply; plenty has been written ... read article... |
Demand Chain Management - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Business today is focussed on the completion of specific consumer orders. This is markedly different from the ‘stack ‘em high, sell ‘em cheap’ culture of the 70’s and 80’s. MORE INFO: Demand Chain Management Business today is focussed on th... read article... |
Demand Management Key to Customer-Focused Operations - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The commercial world has changed a lot over the last 10 to 20 years. Where in the past, businesses largely tried to sell what they could make and deliver, they are now driven by what customers demand. In the past, the focus of supply chain planning was on supply chain efficiency... read article... |
Demanding Roles - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The Harvard Business Review (July-August 2004 p162,) recently re-published Shapiro’s pivotal article “Staple Yourself to an Order”. This was originally published in 1992 but the message it contains about integration and the risk of orders falling between functi... read article... |
Branch news : East Anglia - Latest Thinking in Demand Management - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Derek Thomason is well known to many IOM members. I was delighted to welcome him to a meeting of the East Anglia Branch in The Bell Inn at Stilton to talk about demand management. This was a joint meeting with the IQA branch in Peterborough. MORE INFO: Branch news : East Angli... read article... |
Branch news : Midlands - Inventory Optimisation - Demand management Article ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Professor Hendrick Vanmaele of Mobius provided a very interesting and stimulation presentation on Inventory Optimisation. Thought by many to be a black art, the Professor brought considered science to this significant business issue. MORE INFO: Branch news : Midlands - Invento... read article... |
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