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Valentine’s Day. For most people, it’s a day of roses, chocolates, and maybe a romantic dinner. For supply chain planners? It’s a different story entirely. It’s a high-pressure sprint to ensure everything from fresh flowers to personalized gifts ends up …
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Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new discount, conceived in coziness, and dedicated to the proposition that all people need rest: the Presidents’ Day mattress sale. Ok, that didn’t happen, but who could …
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Internships are more than just a stepping stone—they're an opportunity to learn, grow, and sometimes, find a long-term home. That’s exactly what happened for Anita Kis, who started as a consultancy intern at Kinaxis and is now a full-time delivery …
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Fighting climate change requires more than good intentions—it takes action, accountability, and innovation. At Kinaxis, we’re tackling sustainability on multiple fronts: reducing our own footprint, investing in high-impact carbon offset projects, and …
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Top 10 supply chain jokes. Apologies in advance if you find this offensive. We do believe there is value in forecasting... What do you get if you play a supply chain country song backwards? You get your revenue back, you get your margin back, you get your …
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One of my colleagues, John Westerveld, recently wrote a blog about visibility titled “ Visibility in the supply chain: What you can’t see can hurt you .” The key point John is making is that if you can’t see it you can’t manage it. There is a related …
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We continue to have a few new hires around Kinaxis and part of their orientation is to meet with me and get the history of Kinaxis. I always enjoying sharing the history of how the company began and thought it would be interesting to share on the blog. …
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Attribute based forecast generation can be defined as using the common attributes of a particular group of products to more accurately forecast future demand at the individual SKU level. Forecasting is part science and part art, so the more we can move …
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This is a quote attributed to Ernestine Ulmer, an American writer born in 1925, that my middle child, a son, has lived by since his birth, though I suspect his sweet tooth has little to do with a philosophy of life, but is rather a life choice. What I …