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January 9th, 2012 | Posted by smcadoo
Our partners and customers are building forward looking planning applications. They are usually building these systems on top of existing transactional data systems and data warehouses. The problem is they are trying to build forward looking planning systems with every piece of data they have. This is a computational nightmare. Forward looking planning systems are [...]
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- On the role of private brands in retail and what is the appropriate mix of private and national brands
December 21st, 2011 | Posted by Renat Islamov
The US retail industry is in turmoil. Manufacturers are facing increasing commodities prices, ever resilient competition, uncertainties in financial markets and customer behavior. The retailers, both brick-and-mortar and online, are viciously fighting for customers’ dollars and cents. Customers are worried about economic downturn and try to sniff out deals and save, and they have many [...]
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- IT – Are We Gatekeepers or Leaders?
IT managers and staff are under fire, spending most everyday keeping existing systems up and running, and more often than not, they are understaffed, lacking in processes, and viewed too frequently as the bad guys. I’ve been known to refer to them as the “Department of No”, because of the numerous times I’ve heard, “Not [...]
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- Worldwide Pulp and Paper Industry Model
June 28th, 2011 | Posted by ekelso
For the next few seconds, think paper – any type, any use, for anything. Think of all the paper products you use. (If you are drawing a blank, consider: newsprint, brown bags, tissue, napkins, towels, books, magazines, phone directories, photocopy and computer paper, corrugated packaging material, etc.) The list might be longer than you even [...]
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- Calculating Opportunity Value
June 10th, 2011 | Posted by rwhitehair
The single most important differentiator for Enterprise Optimizer® (EO) is its proprietary ability to calculate Opportunity Values™. Opportunity Value is essential in the new economic science, Integrated Business Planning (IBP). IBP is an empirical science that resolves problems in conventional economic science to provide analytical power comparable to Newtonian physics, especially with respect to predictive [...]
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- Keeping It Real With Integer Variables
Integer variables are often required to model reality – a fact well understood for the last 50 years. Still, five decades of advancement has resulted in few distinct mixed integer (MIP) modeling approaches. As if most software vendors simply copied each other, the common approach has always relied chiefly on programming skills and expert knowledge. [...]
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- All Decisions Are About the Future
Planning solutions need to be adaptable, and they need to work within the existing decision-making paradigm. For many years decision support quantitative analysis has been used to support decisions, but it suffers from some problems which limit its mass adoption. First, quantitative analysis in decision-making is too slow. By the time you have completed work [...]
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- Strengthening the S&OP Process with What-if Analyses – Financials & Risk
May 11th, 2011 | Posted by ccenturion
This post is the final in a series of four. All series’ content provides guiding principles for S&OP managers and their partners – helping them better understand which best practices are possible through what-if analyses. In the first post of the series, Strengthening the S&OP Process with What-if Analyses – Demand Shaping, I discussed that [...]
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- Solution Building with Enterprise Optimizer
Recently, I participated in a conversation with our development team about solution-building. I thought it was important for them to understand a few key points. When providing my thoughts, I also considered development partners and clients currently using Enterprise Optimizer® (EO) to build solutions to differentiate themselves and/or gain a competitive edge in the marketplace. [...]
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- Strengthening the S&OP Process with What-if Analyses – Supply Planning
This post is the third in a series providing guiding principles for S&OP managers and their partners to help them better understand which best practices are possible through what-if analyses. In the first post of the series, Strengthening the S&OP Process with What-if Analyses – Demand Shaping, I discussed that the key underlying requirement for [...]
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