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Demand Planning

Collaborative Forecasting: Best Practices for Better Business Outcomes
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Collaborative Forecasting: Best Practices for Better Business Outcomes

Diane Sherwood is a dynamic leader with a distinguished career spanning over two decades in merchandising, inventory operations, demand planning, and omni-channel management. Currently serving as SVP of Global Services at Algo, Diane is known for her strategic vision and ability to drive high-performing teams toward exceptional results. Her experience includes leading transformational initiatives, optimizing operational efficiency, and fostering a customer-centric approach in diverse settings, from her executive roles at CarParts.com and ThreeFiveOne to her extensive tenure at Best Buy. Diane’s commitment to innovation, collaboration, and strategic growth has made her a respected leader in her field, poised to make impactful decisions that elevate service standards and business outcomes.

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Sharper Forecasts and Streamlined Inventories: Harnessing AI in Specialty Bolt & Screw’s Supply Chain Transformation
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Sharper Forecasts and Streamlined Inventories: Harnessing AI in Specialty Bolt & Screw’s Supply Chain Transformation

This session will explore how Specialty Bolt & Screw (SBS) wanted to improve their forecasting, distribution, production and purchase planning and how they successfully now balance its global supply chain with weeks long supply lead times, with short delivery lead times of 2 to 3 hours from receiving the order, through their efficient inventory management practice. Hear best practices and insights around how to gain:
Sharper Forecasts: By improving demand predictions, you can not only greatly optimize inventory levels, you can save big on working capital
Streamlined Operations: Reduce manual workloads using AI and machine learning, leading to freed up planners’ time, boosting market responsiveness and productivity
Smart Inventory Management: By replacing manual checks of inventory with automated safety stock and item classification, you’ll gain flexibility and more accurate inventory management

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Panel: Optimizing the Cloud Supply Chain: Insights on End-to-End Transformation from Microsoft, Behr Paint Company and CloudPaths
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Panel: Optimizing the Cloud Supply Chain: Insights on End-to-End Transformation from Microsoft, Behr Paint Company and CloudPaths

Understanding of the importance of change management and user adoption of supply chain solutions across the entire organization
Learn how Microsoft has achieved successful planning for their cloud supply chains.
The impact for Behr Paints of one plan for demand and supply all the way through transportation and logistics
Recognizing why collaboration with multiple tiers of suppliers is integral to the supply chain process
Why Behr Paints needed visibility of end to end plan from raw material to packaging for their supply chain to run smoothly

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Fireside Chat: How Meta Used Algo’s AI Platform to Master CPFR and Demand Planning
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Fireside Chat: How Meta Used Algo’s AI Platform to Master CPFR and Demand Planning

Throughout her career, Amy Cooper has been at the forefront of supply chain data and technology, selling for Dun & Bradstreet when they launched their supplier scoring solutions and part of the team that launched Gartner for Supply Chain. Featured as a guest on various supply chain technology podcasts, Amy has supported multiple Fortune 500 companies in their quest to optimize operations and drive innovation. She is the Algo Global Account Director for Microsoft, leading the global CPFR program for XBox and Surface devices. In addition to her role in sales, Amy is deeply involved with Algo’s AI development roadmap and focused on co-creating cutting edge technology solutions that drive continuous improvement for her customers.

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Generative AI: A Disruptive Game-Changer for Supply Chains, Demand Planning, and Sustainability — A Conversation with Paul Greifenberger of Logility
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Generative AI: A Disruptive Game-Changer for Supply Chains, Demand Planning, and Sustainability — A Conversation with Paul Greifenberger of Logility

At the 2023 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Paul Greifenberger, Logility’s EVP, Americas, to talk about what Generative AI can offer supply chain executives. Earlier iterations of AI were task-oriented and required a lot of supervision. Generative AI works from a foundation of knowledge provided by the user and learns as it performs tasks, eventually building itself to the ability to perform important tasks without hands-on supervision. The democratization of data access, data analysis, and the ability to monetize information that traditionally would have been difficult or time-consuming to identify and action is being unlocked, and it offers supply chain executives powerful new capabilities in areas like forecasting and sustainability performance. Generative AI can give supply chain leaders results faster and in both quantitative and qualitative ways that are going to be revolutionary. To learn more, give this episode al listen!

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