The Growing Acceptance of Supply Planning at a Detailed Level

March 8, 2011

What This Article Covers  How does ToolsGroup approach planning?  Order batching in supply planning and the implications for detailed planning.  What overly aggregated supply planning means. Planning software is changing and there is a growing acceptance of the importance of capturing the details of the supply chain. Background It is instructive to focus on vendors [...]

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Gartner says Line of Business Users are Starting to Rise Up against IT. We Agree

February 9, 2011

What This Article Covers  What is Redeployment? Redeployment as it differs by product type. How redeployment compares across supply planning methods. Background A recent Gartner article entitled The “Digital Natives” are Restless: The Impending Revolt Against the IT Nanny State caught my attention. It discussed the growing resentment against one-sized fits all solutions promoted by IT. The [...]

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Segmentation vs. Inventory Optimization

November 26, 2010

What This Article Covers  What is segmentation and how is it different from inventory optimization? What can vendors that offer segmentation do to carve out a niche separate from inventory optimization? Background There are a number of problems in the inventory optimization space relating to what is being communicated to potential clients. One issue relates [...]

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Dr. Calvin Lee’s Multi Echelon Software Test

October 17, 2010

What This Article Covers Dr. Calvin Lee’s tests for multi echelon planning and what they mean. What do I consider the most important criteria from what Dr. Lee has discussed? The Tests for True Multi Echelon Optimization Dr. Calvin Lee laid out the following tests for whether a software application is actually MEIO in his [...]

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Lean and Inventory Optimization and Multi Echelon Planning

October 15, 2010

What This Article Covers How do supply planning vendors answer the question of whether their software is “Lean?” Can supply planning software be made to be “Lean?” Background I was recently at a supply chain conference and noticed the high number of presentation sessions on the topic of lean. In fact two of the dominant [...]

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Booz Allen Hamilton Misrepresents Inventory Optimization in White Papers

October 13, 2010

Two white papers on inventory optimization would badly confuse anyone who does not work in the area as to what inventory optimization actually is. Booz Allen has insufficient knowledge in this area to put out white papers on this topic. What This Article Covers How do supply planning vendors answer the question of whether their software [...]

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Interviews with Jeff Bodenstab of ToolsGroup

September 21, 2010

Introduction After attending ToolsGroup SO99 training in Boston I was able to get some time to ask a few people from ToolsGroup some questions, and they were nice enough to allow me to videotape the exchanges. This second series is with Jeff Bodenstab, who is the SVP of Marketing at ToolsGroup. Jeff’s has been in [...]

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Interviews with Joseph Shamir of ToolsGroup

September 20, 2010

Introduction After attending ToolsGroup SO99 training in Boston I was able to get some time to ask a few people from ToolsGroup some questions, and they were nice enough to allow me to videotape the exchanges. This third series is with ToolSGroup CEO Joseph Shamir. Joseph’s tenure at ToolsGroup as well as his long term [...]

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Interviews with Richard Wallis of ToolsGroup

September 18, 2010

Introduction After attending ToolsGroup SO99 training in Boston I was able to get some time to ask a few people from ToolsGroup some questions, and they were nice enough to allow me to videotape the exchanges. This first series is with Richard Wallis, who is the DC & Managing Consultant at ToolsGroup. Richard’s insights are [...]

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The Hijacking of Inventory Optimization and Multi Echelon Terminology

September 10, 2010

Hijacking MEIO Terminology One major issue holding back inventory optimization and multi echelon adoption, is the fact that many vendors have hijacked the terms and applied them to software that just does normal supply planning and inventory management. Strangely, there is not more written on how many vendors have deliberately muddied the waters on these topics. This [...]

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