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 [...]
