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Kinaxis on RapidResponse

http://blog.kinaxis.com/

This blog features Kinaxis executives and the occasional guest and provides insights on Response Management.

• Added on: Aug 18th, 2005
• Country: Canada
• Language: English

• Listed in: Innovation Technology Software
• Tags: products best practices general news response management demand management

Recent Posts

• I am adamant that an accurate forecast does not reduce demand volatility

  Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 07:27 in forecast, supply chain management, forecasting, demand management, demand planning, supply chain planning, demand-supply balancing, demand driven, advanced planning & scheduling (aps)

  I was on a call with a prospect a while ago whose company is struggling with demand volatility.  To address the issue the company is implementing a statistical forecasting tool. I must admit that it took me some time to convince the prospect that im...

• The rules of response

  Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 08:18 in manufacturing, supply chain management, value chain, operations performance

  To my eternal shame I only came across George Stalk at the Boston Consulting Group today for the first time after reading Dan Gilmore’s blog at Supply Chain Digest.  Clearly this man has been around for some time and I have had my head buried ...

• How many links are in your supply chain?

  Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 08:13 in collaboration, supply chain management, inventory management, supply chain visibility, supply management, supply chain flexibility, demand response

  Many supply chains have more links in them than is initially evident.  The time it takes for information to flow up and down the supply chain can be directly proportional to the number of these links.  Moreover, some of these links in the supply ch...

• S&OP that matters…Bridge the disconnect between reality and planning

  Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 08:09 in demand-supply balancing, sales & operations planning (s&op)

  The latest edition of IndustryWeek’s Manufacturing Business Challenge has been published. This month’s challenge discusses a $300-million manufacturer of material-handling equipment that’s questioning the value of their Sales & ...

• Why can\'t we all just get along?

  Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 08:02 in outsourcing, collaboration, supply chain management, forecasting, supply chain visibility, supply chain risk management, supply management, supply chain planning, supply chain collaboration

  I was talking to a Contract Manufacturing company the other day and discovered an interesting  predicament. A hot-button issue for this Contract Manufacturer (and others I’ve talked to as well)  is the need to get better information from th...

• That one simple thing to improve responding to change

  Posted on Thursday December 10th, 2009 at 07:35 in supply chain management, response management, supply chain visibility, supply management, order fulfillment, demand-supply balancing, advanced planning & scheduling (aps)

  As an integration consultant, I have worked with a variety of manufacturers implementing supply chain planning and response management applications.  What I have noticed is that at many of the manufacturers, not all, there are many past due purchase...

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