How Behavior Change Within the Enterprise Can Mitigate the Bullwhip Effect

In 1956, considerable fluctuations in production, inventories and profit baffled managers in General Electric’s household appliance division. Despite supervisory efforts, the variations endured. Traditionally, managers blamed these types of fluctuations on external causes, like business cycles.

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Quality Data is at the Heart of Demand Forecasting in Retail

When it comes to demand forecasting, most companies have way too many forecasting mechanisms in play across their organization. Each segment of the business ends up siloed from the others, relying on its own data and analysis, which impacts both efficiency and effectiveness.

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Why CPG Companies Struggle to Improve Forecast Accuracy

Most organizations do a poor job forecasting, with just one in five coming within 5% of forecasts. This statistic is staggering, and it implies that although many organizations understand the value of forecasting, the majority of them are doing it inaccurately.

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Opportunities & Challenges in Demand Forecasting

George Santayana, the Spanish-American philosopher, famously mused, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”, but Mr. Santayana didn’t foresee the Era of Big Data.

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Six Reasons Why COOs Are Embracing Demand Forecasting

There are six powerful factors driving the COO’s rising interest in unified demand forecasting. This is partially driven by companies shift from siloed, stand-alone approaches to unified, enterprise-wide operations. Market leaders are paying attention to these six additional drivers:

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