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Jan 26, 2021

42 tricks to achieve Supply Chain greatness

Many domains are complex, irredemiably so, and supply chain is certainly one of them. So what could an itemized list of tricks help you to achieve?

Nov 20, 2020

Supply Chain Lectures, but why?

I would like to share some insights into my motivations, as a CEO, for undertaking such a series of supply chain lectures. It boils down to the four key challenges faced by Lokad.

Nov 5, 2020

Refresh everything every day

Lokad’s supply chain practice is to refresh all the data pipelines - forecasts included - at least once a day. Why is that?

Aug 27, 2019

Forecasting as a self-fulfilling prophecy

What are the importance of feedback loops and how do we use them in our forecasts

Jun 10, 2019

A manufacturer’s perspective

What solutions can Quantitative Supply Chain provide for large manufacturing companies?

Jun 3, 2019

Fall in love with the problem, not the solution

The most common strategy (tragedy) for software solutions remains replicating behavior that's essentially "human".

Apr 16, 2019

Humans in modern supply chains

"Machine should work; People should think." vs "Built for people not perfection". Two different visions.

Mar 15, 2019

A numerical take on DDMRP

How much novelty does "Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning" really bring to the table for supply chains?

Jan 21, 2019

Lean scalable processing for supply chains

Are large scale calculations through cloud computing worth the cost?

Aug 7, 2018

The limited applicability of backtesting

Backtesting is simple and elegant, but is it really a silver bullet?