Flowcasting has often been referred to as ‘the Holy Grail’ of demand driven supply chain planning (and rightly so).
Driving the entire supply chain across multiple enterprises from sales at the store shelf right back to the factory.
So is Flowcasting a retail solution or a manufacturing solution? Many analysts, consultants and solution providers have been positioning Flowcasting as a solution for manufacturers.
They’re wrong.
While it’s true that some manufacturers have achieved success in using data from retailers to help improve and stabilize their production schedule, the simple fact is that manufacturers can’t achieve huge benefits from Flowcasting until they are planning a critical mass of retail stores and DCs where their products are sold and distributed.
For a large consumer packaged goods manufacturer, this means collecting data and planning demand and supply across tens of thousands of stores across multiple retail organizations, all of which have their own ways of managing their internal processes.
Read more at Is Flowcasting the Supply Chain Only for the Few?
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