Growing your business has never been as challenging as in today's rapid evolving environment. How to differentiate from the competition? The quest for new solutions and methods to stand out of the crowd, is never-ending. One of those methods resides in the way our organizations are set up. Our experience of working with [...]
Many businesses use market data to support their planning and forecasting practices. They buy data from data providers, and then qualitatively make assumptions which should enhance their decision making processes. Now, how will you define if you are using the right data and if you are making the right assumptions? Right... that's quite an important aspect [...]
How does weather impact your sales? It's a question we all like to answer. We're end of June and summer has started and the weather has been kind to us ever since. In Belgium this led to increased sales of swimming pools and all sorts of attributes you'd wish for when the [...]
One of our recent webinars, where we discussed how you can use big data in your business forecasting processes, showed that a lot of companies out there aren't taking into account the enormous amount of external data available. The below graph shows that more than 50 % of the participants said that they were [...]
About 2 weeks ago we visited a conference in the Netherlands, the annual Supply Chain Day. Listening to the keynote speakers, it was clear that all these people were facing the same types of challenges and were looking for a way forward in a changing (digital) business landscape. A landscape where challenges are [...]
Over the past years we have seen an emerge for the use of big data in the supply chain network. Big data is being used for better understanding market tendencies, as a strategic asset. Where possible it is also used in an operational way, to improve business operations. This makes us wonder [...]
With the new year ahead of us, we tend to start thinking of what 2017 will bring us and our businesses. Among the new foresights for 2017, we see the presidency of Donald Trump in the USA. A lot of assumptions over his ability to govern, as well as regarding the implications [...]
Getting a grip on your demand and your forecast accuracy is something which has proven not to be that easy for most companies. Better predicting what the future will bring, is the goal of a lot of companies out there. Today, we try to accomplish that by using forecasting techniques which mainly [...]
