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March-April 2018

"Inflation creeps into U.S. Supply Chain.” So said the headline on a Wall Street Journal article I read this morning before writing this column. The Journal went on to write that U.S. companies are grappling with rising material and ingredient costs on top of pressure from higher wages—a potential double whammy— and noted that companies like Whirlpool and Ford have already issued warnings to the market.
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At a forecasting conference I attended, a manager described a concert event at which Lady Gaga wore a unique nail polish that his company sold. Shortly thereafter, social media lit up and sales went through the roof. The company and its supply chain partners ran out of the product, as well as a key ingredient that went into making it. The company was ill-prepared to take full advantage of this rapid change in demand, likely losing significant revenue. To capitalize on this revenue opportunity, it should have had quick response forecasting (QRF)* and a quick response demand-supply team in place to garner more of the revenue from the sales boost. But, what exactly is QRF?

Big Data for tracking downstream demand signals is all the rage, driven by the belief that Big Data will garner better predictive signals than POS data, which has delivered limited predictability. However, the explosion of digital data and information on the Internet about how customers are using products has allowed forecasters and planners to begin to identify useful demand signals among Big Data’s noisy information deluge. Much like the social media flare up when Lada Gaga wore a unique nail polish that now everyone must have.

The issue for the above company was that its planning and execution processes were likely too routine and too slow to react to the sudden change in demand. For this type of change, sales and operations planning (S&OP) processes are typically:

  1. too slow to respond within planning cycles;
  2. reliant on monthly or weekly meetings and forecasts; and
  3. cannot source the requisite materials fast enough to meet significant unanticipated demand changes.

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March-April 2018

"Inflation creeps into U.S. Supply Chain.” So said the headline on a Wall Street Journal article I read this morning before writing this column. The Journal went on to write that U.S. companies are grappling…
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At a forecasting conference I attended, a manager described a concert event at which Lady Gaga wore a unique nail polish that his company sold. Shortly thereafter, social media lit up and sales went through the roof. The company and its supply chain partners ran out of the product, as well as a key ingredient that went into making it. The company was ill-prepared to take full advantage of this rapid change in demand, likely losing significant revenue. To capitalize on this revenue opportunity, it should have had quick response forecasting (QRF)* and a quick response demand-supply team in place to garner more of the revenue from the sales boost. But, what exactly is QRF?

Big Data for tracking downstream demand signals is all the rage, driven by the belief that Big Data will garner better predictive signals than POS data, which has delivered limited predictability. However, the explosion of digital data and information on the Internet about how customers are using products has allowed forecasters and planners to begin to identify useful demand signals among Big Data's noisy information deluge. Much like the social media flare up when Lada Gaga wore a unique nail polish that now everyone must have.

The issue for the above company was that its planning and execution processes were likely too routine and too slow to react to the sudden change in demand. For this type of change, sales and operations planning (S&OP) processes are typically:

  1. too slow to respond within planning cycles;
  2. reliant on monthly or weekly meetings and forecasts; and
  3. cannot source the requisite materials fast enough to meet significant unanticipated demand changes.

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