Manufacturing and Supply Chain is slowly starting to become my new favourite sector, and in my opinion it’s definitely the sector to watch out for in 2012. With the massive complex problems the world faces in terms of the economy, employment and environmental and social sustainability, solving the key problems within the sector seems to [...]

For years, supply chain planners have used outdated inventory management models. The result has been that companies have had to suffer unnecessary inefficiencies, adding extra woe to their ERP performance in an already ultracompetitive market. What is Traditional Inventory Planning? Traditional approaches to inventory planning are based on a single stage, single-item model that sees [...]