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MAPE: The Metric Everyone Loves to Hate (But Shouldn’t)
Ah, MAPE. Or Mean Absolute Percentage Error. The metric that supply chain professionals love to hate. The villain of the forecasting world, blamed for...
How Manufacturers Can Slash Inefficiencies and Maximise Agility with I-Plan
In today’s manufacturing environment, businesses are under constant pressure to do more with less. Rising costs, volatile supply chains, and shifting customer...
Why AI Is No Longer Optional in Process Manufacturing Forecasting
The process manufacturing industry is under immense pressure to respond to fast-changing market demands, supply chain volatility, and increasing complexity....
Breaking Free from Outdated Methods: The Cost of Inefficiencies in Process Manufacturing
In the dynamic realm of process manufacturing, efficient planning is paramount. Yet, many organisations still rely on spreadsheets and outdated platforms for...
How to Transition from Legacy Systems to Modern Planning Solutions
In today’s fast-moving industrial landscape, process manufacturers need planning solutions that are agile, data-driven, and seamlessly integrated into their...
Five Ways to Streamline Your Demand and Supply Chain Planning
In today’s fast-paced business environment, companies need efficient and flexible supply chain planning to stay competitive. Poor demand forecasting,...
The Nine Game-Changing Benefits of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
In today’s competitive and unpredictable business environment, success hinges on balancing customer demand with operational efficiency. Sales and Operations...
Introduction to Integrated Business Planning: Understandings the basics of IBP
Ever heard the phrase Integrated Business Planning and wondered what it means? If so, then this is the blog post for you! Integrated Business Planning (IBP)...
What is Sales and Operations Execution? Understanding the basics of S&OE
Ever heard the term Sales and Operations Execution and wondered what is all means? If so, then this is the blog post for you! Sales and Operations Execution...
What is Sales and Operations Planning? Understanding the basics of S&OP
Ever heard the term Sales and Operations Planning and wondered what it means? If so, this is the blog post for you! In today’s volatile business environment,...
Forecasting as a Service (FaaS): Transforming Process Manufacturing
Process manufacturers need to focus on integrating data, which may come from a wide array of sources such as historical sales, production schedules, raw material prices, and real-time market trends.
Maximising Packaging Industry Potential with Advanced Planning
Gaining and maintaining a competitive advantage in the packaging industry is hard. It requires manufacturers to conquer numerous challenges, such as...
Sales and Operations Planning and Execution for Process Manufacturers in Partnership with SAP
I-Plan engineers have been hard at work developing multi directional integration with SAP to help our customers gain more value from their systems with I-Plan Check out our full whitepaper showcasing the power of I-Plan integrated with SAP, the bridge between business planning and operations.
Global Tissue Industry: Study Report 2022
The purpose of the study was to find new ways and areas to improve and focus on efficiency; enable cross-border thinking and end-to-end value creation through...
Agile end-to-end collaboration and integration in the Packaging Industry
Focus on the value chain integration Value chain integration has been one of the cornerstones in packaging industry efficiency improvements for some...
Strategic sales and operations planning for Fedrigoni paper and securities
To support Fedrigoni’s digital transformation with a successful I-Plan implementation that enables them to: Better manage customer service, production...
Rethinking the tissue industry business planning process
What if Tissue Industry leaders choose to rethink their business planning from raw materials through paper production to converting processes to markets?...
The Great Supply Chain Bake Off
In Lora Cecere’s recent article, 'How do we stop buying software the wrong way?' she calls for software buyers to request prospective technologists to...
5 implementation tips from the Fedrigoni Group
The Fedrigoni Group is an Italian manufacturer and a leading player in the production and sale of paper for packaging, printing and graphics as well as...
What makes a great supply chain solution partner?
The world of Supply Chain Planning acronyms such as Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and more recently Sales and...
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