Supply Chain Free Consulting Should I have fixed price Transporation contracts? Should I seek transportation services from open market? Four things here 1) Where are you based? 2) What’s the competition for the cargo? 3) Are you big enough to dictate terms? 4) Can you guarantee cargo on a daily basis? First one is particularly...

Supply Chain Free Consulting Why ‘value’ demand forecast at a warehouse/factory ‘level’ when forecast by sense implies forecast of market demand? Forecast OF ‘customer’/region /market demand’. Can’t the supply plan determine where to supply from? Esp. in a million-dollar software used by two and a half guys in the company? Answer IF there are multiple...

Dashboards, Control Towers, Cockpits, Scorecards, Control Panels, Visibility. Every Manager fancies one. Rightfully. Given the current App economy that has made life so easy for so many of us in so many ways. A Control Tower App can be so empowering. Esp. if you get to know just about everything you need to know at...

Motorcycle Customers may become first time car buyers in developing markets, but you do not study combined demand for Motorcycles and Passenger cars. Or should you? Sales data from various markets show that Motorcycle Sales and Passenger Car Sales grow (or lose) in tandem and that there is a very high correlation between the two!...