It is just as important to forecast the suppliers’ lead time and calculate the variability as it is to forecast the demand and the amount of variation.

We’ve all heard of a To-Do List, but what about a “Not To-Do List?” These are things we may be doing with our Supply Chain Planning system, but shouldn’t be.

Before jumping to a solution, you must first articulate the business problem. Once you take a step back, the successive steps will become clearer.

Temperatures are cooling, its football season, and you know what that means: yes, it’s the traditional time for our annual user conference – BLUEPrint.

With Amazon, Walmart, Alibaba, Ebay and others enabling the empowered customer, everyone is competing with the biggest and the best. More than ever before, empowered consumers can select everything they need, with or without you.

Think of forecasting as a machine, cranking out data on what the item “did.” A technique that is duplicating the past. Predictive analytics has a deeper understanding.

You Can’t Sell What You Don’t Have. How to close the rift between sales and purchasing to generate revenue, while mitigating inventory risk.

Training is something that most of us make time for… once. Then, after that initial training, we believe that we are experts for the next millennia.

Blue Ridge, is honored to announce that it has been named once again in SupplyChainBrain’s list of 100 Great Supply Chain Partners for 2016.

Statistical forecasts don’t reflect causal demand. This creates big gaps between actual demand. The forecast should be thought of as a series of segments…