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Demand Management Best Practices
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Demand Management Best Practices

Process, Principles and Collaboration

J. Ross, 2003 更多详情


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Applicable

Recommendation

Supply chain consultants Colleen Crum and George E. Palmatier use crystal-clear language and unerring dedication to the finer points of “demand management” to define it, encourage it, and enable you to implement it effectively. After digesting their case studies, scenarios, analyses and pithy wisdom, you will understand that demand management is neither a niche nor a fad; it’s more of a Swiss Army Knife for rethinking and revitalizing your business. Open one blade and you sharpen sales; open another and you carve better branding or marketing. This book is eminently useful, employing jargon only where necessary and neatly encompassing its main points in “best practices” lists at the end of each chapter. A careful read with a highlighter in hand would help anyone better understand supply chains. More specifically, getAbstract recommends it to higher-ups in sales and marketing, to those who manage supply chains, and, of course, to those responsible for providing forecasts or managing demand for companies.

Take-Aways

  • “Demand management” works only when the organization understands its value.
  • Computer forecasts enable you to predict product flow – too much, and inventory piles up; too little, and customers wait.
  • To make buying demand-management technology worthwhile, clarify your needs; add only the technology that meets those needs and that your people will use.

About the Authors

Colleen Crum is a managing principal at Oliver Wright Companies, where George E. Palmatier is a consultant and educator.


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