This May I was invited by my lT colleagues at the University of Tennessee to give a presentation on the importance of Top-Down & Bottom- Up forecasting in the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process. The last time I had covered this type of forecasting in one of my columns...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #14. Read all articles in this issue. America’s aging transportation infrastructure can’t keep up with relentless world trade growth. If it isn’t overhauled, consumers and the U.S. economy will pay a steep price. That was the warning issued by John Bowe, President of The Americas for...
Supply Chain Frontiers issue #14. Read all articles in this issue. Cost pressures are fracturing the pharmaceutical supply chain in the United States, but what the reshaped chain will look like is open to debate. One outcome seems certain: the role of drug wholesalers will not be the same. The...
