Small manufacturers, typically unable to afford the cost and manage the scale of a demand signal repository (DSR), are finding new options. Source: TechTarget.com “A lot of retailers are offering up data to manufacturers,” said Amy Drevna, senior vice president of marketing at One Network, which provides planning, execution and business-intelligence services on a federated cloud-computing platform. “We try to …
Quick Payback Supply Chain Visibility Projects
Solving the challenge of end-to-end visibility As manufacturers’ supply chains go global and become increasingly complex, getting end-to-end supply chain visibility across an extended value chain is a little bit like trying to keep pace on a treadmill. Therefore, experts suggest manufacturers take on the visibility challenge by narrowing the scope of their efforts to the primary pain point surrounding …
Retailers Help Del Monte See Future
Del Monte CIO Marc Brown shares strategies for improving demand-planning accuracy with Industry Week. A recent AMR Research report suggests the economic downturn should have served as a “wake-up call” for the importance of sales and operations planning (S&OP). An S&OP plan is typically characterized as a consensus process that involves stakeholders internally and externally throughout an organization, says Jane …
Embracing Not Replacing Asset Management
Marine Corps uses One Network to manage critical ammunition assets. “The Marine Corps is using a new system to manage its ammunition assets that ensures interoperability with other military systems, has helped dramatically reduce errors, added significant functionality and can evolve smoothly to add major new capabilities. The Corps chose an innovative solution that built on prior systems and was …
Del Monte Improves On-Shelf Availability and Shrinks Inventory Costs With Retailer Collaboration Through One Network
Case Study on Del Monte’s success with One Network, by transforming its consumer goods supply chain into a consumer-driven network. Read how Del Monte transitioned to a consumer-driven network and achieved higher on-shelf availability with lower inventory levels. See the Del Monte Case Study. Being out of stock at the retail shelf is the eighth deadly sin for suppliers. Although …
