analytics forecasts

AI for Digital supply chains Tariffs with Zilliant SAP IBP implementation

Building Demand-Driven Supply Chains with Reveal Businesses employ a push-based supply chain strategy, driven by historical data or plant production capacity rather than effectively managing inventory to align with actual market demand. This approach often results in inefficiencies such as surplus raw materials, low inventory turnover, unproductive usage of storage space and ultimately leads to crisis management, reactive communication, and contributes to a production plan that doesn't accurately reflect consumer demand. In contrast, transitioning to a pull-based supply chain strategy enhances business efficiency by accurately responding to customer requirements. This method promotes business agility, optimizes operational planning, and allows the learning from discrepancies to improve forecast accuracy. Additionally, a pull system promotes a unified management approach, utilizing a single data set and assumptions for business decision-making. A pull supply chain can generate a number of benefits including production accuracy, real-time production, shorter lots/cycles, inventory optimization, waste reduction, insights-driven management and proactive communication. Reveal proprietary methodology, oVo®, centered around value creation, assists enterprises in fine-tuning their procurement and manufacturing procedures to satisfy market demands. This approach encourages organizations to rely on a unified, authoritative data source for improved decision-making and streamlined operations.

By Suparna Chawla Bhasin

Jul 10, 2023

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3 minute read

business intelligence

The Future of Business Intelligence Benchmark Webinar In This Webinar: We have entered the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Technology has taken a massive leap in the last decade and is expected to take another exponential leap in this coming decade, leading to rapid advances in the discipline of data science. Data science practices introduced the world of […]

Nov 30, 2021

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1 minute read

whiskey and natural ice on old wooden table

Breakthru Beverage Group Increases SAP Systems Usage Through Change Management Change management emerged as the top challenge for SAP deployments in previous SAPinsider research. For Breakthru Beverage Group — a North American alcoholic beverage wholesaler headquartered in Cicero, Illinois — the successful implementation of SAP HANA 2.0-based business intelligence products required an evolution in its change management strategy. SAPinsider recently interviewed Desmond Foley, Solutions Architect for Business Intelligence at Breakthru Beverage, to understand how the company effectively communicated with different sets of stakeholders to improve the usage and user acceptance of SAP HANA-based analytics tools.

May 4, 2020

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6 minute read