A Framework That Delivers Both a Forecast & the Appropriate Supply Response

In many companies, demand forecasting and inventory management are often separate processes. With teams on either side of the demand/supply equation working towards to their own score-cards, supply chain performance can suffer. To solve this problem I propose a proactive monitoring framework designed to bridge this “perspective gap” between demand planning (focused on forecast accuracy) and inventory management (focused on turns and coverage). By evaluating demand and inventory signals simultaneously at the SKU level, the framework transitions supply chain operations from retrospective reporting to automated, actionable ...