You need not always build your analytic tools, sometimes you should buy in. If the chosen application does what you need that often makes g...

A little over 15 years go now, I was set the task to model how much inventory was needed for all of our, 3000 or so, products at every distr...

It's been quite a while, just over 12 months in fact since my last blog post.  In that time, I've been hard at work developing analy...

In the first post in this series ( Part I ) I looked at the opportunities to reduce freight cost from traditional transportation management...

How can you save real money in truckload transportation?   In this post, let’s look at the areas that your transportation team manages dir...

We can build models to know how much inventory we need to hold of each product in each location. Do this well and you improve service levels...

Inventory modeling and inventory optimization attempt to drive out unnecessary inventory from your systems, to improve service levels to you...

Earlier today I saw and responded to a question posted on the IBF (Institute of Business Forecasting & Planning) LinkedIn Group.  It...

You paid handsomely for the software, perhaps for consulting too and have had some bright sparks working on it for months: the  results of y...

I’ve spent a large part of my career working in Analytics for Supply Chain.  It’s an area blessed with a lot of data and I’ve been able to...

If you are following lean methodologies you will have encountered the concept of inventory as waste.   It’s something you have because you c...

I've blogged before about the need to use the right tools to hold and manipulate data as data quantity increases ( Data Handling the Rig...