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As supply chains have become more complex many companies have turned to external sources to manage their physical supply channels. However, some of the key tasks of planning are typically left to their in-house teams and supporting technologies. Unfortunately, that old way of working is becoming challenging. Accelerated by the pandemic, which created major unexpected…

As organizations digitalize their planning capabilities, often the first major question they face is: “Do we build our own applications or buy off-the-shelf?”.  Though it’s very tempting to build your own applications that reflect the nature of your business, there are some very good reasons for buying industry solutions instead.  This is particularly the case…

The Supply Chain Management Association of the Philippines (SCMAP) has been working to build, share and enhance best practices across the technology industry and business landscape for 30-years. As SCMAP now works to help local and international partners on their journey towards digital transformation and the cloud, the organization has hosted its most recent SCMAP…

I’ve been involved in business planning, forecasting and analysis for a couple of decades now, and during this time have seen a lot of evolution, and a couple of revolutions. The first revolution came 20+ years ago when dedicated planning tools started coming to market.  No longer did business planning have to reside in a…

People are often a little cloudy over the difference between procurement and purchasing. Both strategic functions lead to expenditure spend, but the divide between them is not so difficult to delineate. Procurement is generally agreed to be the first of these two strategically related actions. It is the process of researching, analyzing, assessing, auditing and…

Understanding Supply Chain Analytics Defines Your Position On The Value Chain Anaplan is to planning what Salesforce is to CRM and what Workday is to Human Resources (HR), but planning as a pure-play practice is a multifarious discipline in and of itself. We can think of business planning at the highest level as a broad…

After years of offshoring and supply chains becoming increasingly global networks, are we about to see a boom in onshoring? Onshoring has certainly been a discussion point for a number of years, with tentative moves in some quarters. That said, the likelihood of it gaining much momentum was relatively slim up until recently. The prevailing…

A recent Vuealta webinar analysed the workings of contemporary supply chain intelligence and discussed practical lessons and supply chain strategies in the context of demand, inventory and performance management. The session was officially titled Analytics for Supply Chain: Demand, Inventory and Performance Management. Speakers included Michael Detampel, Sr. Director of Supply Chain Solutions, Anaplan; Antony…

As every good schoolchild knows, Alice in Wonderland disappeared down the rabbit hole. For Alice, it was an adventure, but it was a somewhat unpleasant experience filled with the surreal and the almost macabre. A journey down the modern supply chain should of course never represent such unknowns. A recent Vuealta webinar designed to keep…

As every good economist knows, demand forms one half of the core business equation that all commerce (and much of life itself) revolves around as we seek to deliver supply in the right shape, form and function in every industry market. As a discipline and practice, demand planning has a special place on the business…