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Improve your business forecasting
This unusually mild and snow-free winter calls to mind thoughts of forecasts and how inaccurate they can be. Does your business depend on the weather? Demographics? Economic cycles? Some other outside factor that may or may not be predictable? If so, then accurate forecasts may be particularly challenging. Is there a cure for the bad forecast blues?
Posted in Inventory, Manufacturing, Planning Tagged buffers, demand, forecast, inventory, lead time, safety stock, seasonality Comments Off
Football Season
September 2011.
Advice and Assistance for Manufacturers.
Football season is here and once again I am reminded of one of the most overused but still valid sports
metaphors around . . .
Posted in Customer Service, ERP/MRP, Inventory, Lean, Manufacturing, Process Improvement, Supply Chain Tagged buffers, competition, customer demands, customer service, ERP, finished goods, inventory, inventory control, Lean, Lean Supply Chain, make-to-order, Manufacturing, MRP, MRP/ERP, production, raw materials, ship-from-stock, supply chain management Comments Off
