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2. Collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment

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   Collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (CPFR) is an approach to the supply chain process which focuses on joint practices. This is done through cooperative management of inventory through joint visibility and replenishment of products throughout the supply chain.

3. Demand forecasting - Wikipedia

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   Demand forecasting plays an important role for businesses in different industries, particularly with regard to mitigating the risks associated with particular business activities. However, demand forecasting is known to be a challenging task for businesses due to the intricacies of analysis, specifically quantitative analysis. [4]

4. Sales and operations planning - Wikipedia

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   S&OP is the result of planning activities and it is composed of 5 main steps: data gathering, demand planning, supply planning, pre-meeting and executive meeting [7] with the addition of a preliminary step at the beginning (event plans), [8] two additional steps at the end of the process in case of a multinational company (global roll-up and ...

5. Forecasting - Wikipedia

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   Supply chain management and customer demand planning — Forecasting can be used in supply chain management to ensure that the right product is at the right place at the right time. Accurate forecasting will help retailers reduce excess inventory and thus increase profit margin. Accurate forecasting will also help them meet consumer demand.

6. Managerial economics - Wikipedia

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   Demand forecasting assists management in predicting future sales and revenue projection, which inform operations and marketing decisions as well future financial planning. [87] The process of demand forecasting often uses business analytics, particularly predictive analytics , with respect to historical data and other analytical information, to ...

7. Strategic planning - Wikipedia

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   For strategic planning to work, it needs to include some formality (i.e., including an analysis of the internal and external environment and the stipulation of strategies, goals and plans based on these analyses), comprehensiveness (i.e., producing many strategic options before selecting the course to follow) and careful stakeholder management ...