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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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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 …
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It’s been quite a week over at the Supply Chain Expert Community. In an ongoing series to celebrate the 30 th anniversary of the term “supply chain management,” Lauren Bossers posted the question “How has the evolution of technology changed supply chain …
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Our partner Celestica recently published the following article, ‘ Six Steps to Ensure your Control Tower Project is Successful ’. The author, Rebecca Schriver, Global Director, Supply Chain Solutions at Celestica, describes the six critical success …