Forecasting Demand That Swings With the Weather
Your demand is not random. It is reading the weather forecast Picture a weekly supply review in late June. Last week a heatwave pushed one region above…
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Articles on procurement and supply chain management in English.
The Illusion of the Optimal Network
What the Model Was Actually Doing Network design optimization is a well-specified mathematical problem. In its standard form, it's a Mixed Integer Linear…
The Question Nobody Asks Before a Collab Launch
The Two Errors Nobody Prices Every procurement decision under demand uncertainty involves two possible mistakes. Underage: you ordered less than demand.…
Your Cheapest Supplier Might Be Your Most Expensive Decision
The Problem With Optimizing One Variable Supply chain design, at its core, is a minimization problem. The total cost of operating a supply chain network…
Why Your Route Optimization Is Failing (And It Has Nothing to Do with the Algorithm)
Before We Talk About Routes, We Need to Talk About the System Most conversations about route optimization jump straight to the algorithm: VRP, Clarke-Wright,…
The Inventory Paradox: Why Checking Your Stock Less Often Forces You to Hold More of It
Most managers intuitively believe that reviewing inventory less frequently saves time and cost. Mathematically, it does the opposite — and the delta compounds…
Applying Stochastic Procurement Models to GPU Supply Chains — Lessons from QSR at Scale
A few weeks ago I finished Chris Miller's Chip War . Then, almost immediately, picked up The Thinking Machine . Reading them back to back does something…
The Procurement Function Revolution Is Coming from APAC — and It’s Organizational, Not Technological
For thirty years, the prescription for fixing a procurement function has remained remarkably consistent. Centralize spend. Implement category management.…
The Make-or-Buy Inflection Point: Why the Right Supply Chain Model Changes as You Scale
Over the past decade, Asia Pacific has produced some of the most structurally aggressive franchise expansions in the history of food service. And when…
The Spot Market Is Not a Safety Net. Here’s the Math
Most procurement teams think they're managing risk. They're not. Here's what we found. Last year we launched a major transformation of the supply chain…