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The demand planner’s role, how to sell your forecast in S&OP, each function’s part in collaborative forecasting, and how to measure forecast value added.

Internal-only forecasts miss market shifts, and unexplained ones lose trust. How to add external signals and show the working behind every number.

When demand, supply and finance each keep their own numbers, decisions suffer. How to spot fragmented planning data and get to one plan.

Before you spend a dollar on any AI platform, answer these five questions. Be brutally honest. Because your score on these five determines whether AI will transform

If you are managing pharma supply chain planning in India in 2025, you are navigating a ‘perfect storm. Between the looming November 2025 DSCSA compliance

Introduction: When a Broken Chain Costs More Than a Broken Part  A few years ago, when a car broke down, the biggest worry was the

When the US announced potential tariffs on imported drugs, the tremors were felt across India’s pharma ecosystem. The headlines screamed ‘US Tariff Threats Push Indian

“AI supply chain planning across APAC is no longer a future-state ambition — it’s the operational reality that’s separating high-performing companies from those still reacting

Demand planning for the automotive industry in India has always been a game of reading signals that most planning models weren’t built to see. Monsoon

When you walk into a store and everything you need is on the shelf, it feels effortless. But behind that simplicity lies a web of

In May 2025, an understated regulatory move revealed a stark truth: Most supply chains aren’t built to flex — they fracture.  When the De Minimis Rule

Introduction: A New Trade Reality In 2025, the global pharmaceutical industry finds itself at a pivotal juncture. The United States has imposed fresh tariffs on

Leveraging technology to build resilient and sustainable supply chains In this article we will articulate how organizations can leverage technology and analytics to drive resilience

Short answer: for statistical forecasting you need at least 24 months of sales history per item. Two years is the minimum for a model to

  Invest in Business Planning Training To perform at peak capacity one needs to stay sharp. In corporate culture to stay ahead you need to

The function of planning and forecasting goes back a long way and has mentions as an ancient practice in religious and historical texts. Like all

Short answer: negative values in a demand history are almost never real demand. They are usually returns, cancellations or stock corrections booked in the period

Arguably, SKUs with Intermittent Demand are some of the most challenging to forecast with any modicum of accuracy.  We generally define Intermittent Demand as follows:

As a consequence of being in a forecasting consultancy we have picked up an in-depth understanding of the planning and forecasting functions of the firms.

Regression is one of the highly spoken about quantitiative methods in forecasting. It is a statistical method of identifying relationship between two or more variables

Short answer: an exception report puts last month’s actuals next to the forecast made for that month (with the right lag) and shows only the

Today, most companies involve themselves with a wide range of products. Competitive compulsions force companies to keep the product range fresh and relevant in the

Of late we noticed something strange in some of the big companies that we are working with and we guess they found something strange about