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Supply Chain
Plex Manufacturing Blog
From Farm to Factory: How Fertilizer and Material Shortages Affect Food and Beverage Manufacturers
It’s become a perfect storm. Massive disruption of supply chains for food products is becoming a regular threat. Driven by lingering COVID-19 impacts, the war in Ukraine, and other factors, there’s a global shortage of fertilizer....
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Don't Get Too Close to the Flame
Plex DemandCaster Demand and Supply Software lets planning professionals use data-driven insights to navigate successfully and stay away from the flames. ...
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Lock it Down with Supply Chain Planning Software
Read here to learn how supply chain planning software streamlines and automates supplier relationships and adds value for both parties. ...
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Quality Management in an Age of Disruptive Supply Chains
Once upon a time, it was easier. For decades, supply chains stabilized globally, allowing companies to source components confidently and manage their supply chain plans with Lean methodology. And while supply chain complexity increased during this time, the ability to span the globe and know their materials would arrive on time....
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Just Ship it Already!
Discover how software by Plex DemandCaster helps automate forecasting, manage supply chains in real time, and reduce or eliminates waste and overages. ...
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Unbox Your Inventory Strategy
The threat of disruption and inflation has presented supply chain management with new challenges. Unbox your inventory strategy with Plex DemandCaster. ...
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Put Your Best Face Forward
The supply chain for health and beauty manufacturing carries many unique challenges. Our Demand and Supply Planning software can help manage these challenges. ...
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Simmer Down! Bringing Balance to Your Supply Chain Plans
Sometimes it seems supply chains are coming apart at the seams and overheating due to disruption. Bring balance to your supply chain with DemandCaster. ...
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That's Just Your Opinion
Demand and supply planning was as much an art form as a science for many decades. The process was guided by human intuition, gut feeling, and experience and was aided by tools such as calculators and spreadsheets. These were all combined to produce forecasting that was an assumption at best and highly variable at worst. Software increased forecasting accuracy, reducing the height of the peaks and…
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Does Your Supply Chain Differentiate You from Your Competitors?
A data-driven, automated supply chain will help your company stand out among competitors. Read here to find out how an effective supply chain plan improves performance. ...
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