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# Arkieva

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- [News](https://arkieva.com/news-events/)
- [Arkieva Director of Analytics to Coach at the World Championship of Analytics Applications](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-director-of-analytics-to-coach-at-the-world-championship-of-analytics-applications/) - Arkieva Analytics Director Dr. Ken Fordyce will coach Walmart at the INFORMS Edelman Competition, showcasing AI, reinforcement learning and analytics.
- [ARKIEVA LAUNCHES A SAAS SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTION TO MEET THE NEEDS OF SMALLER BUSINESSES](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-launches-saas-supply-chain-solution/) - Arkieva launches Arkieva+, a SaaS supply chain planning solution for smaller businesses, offering demand, supply and inventory planning with faster setup.
- [Arkieva is Again Recognized as a Visionary by Gartner® in the 2023 Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Planning](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-is-again-recognized-as-a-visionary-by-gartner-in-the-2023-magic-quadrant-for-supply-chain-planning/) - Arkieva is named a Visionary in Gartner's 2023 Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions, recognized for vision and execution.
- [Arkieva Named Challenger in 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions](https://arkieva.com/2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-supply-chain-planning-solutions/) - Arkieva has been recognized as a Challenger in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ as we strive for results-driven supply chain planning solutions.
- [Arkieva Recognized as a Challenger in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Planning Solutions](https://arkieva.com/2025-gartner-magic-quadrant-supply-chain-planning-solutions/) - Arkieva is recognized as a Challenger in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions, highlighting its planning platform.
- [COVID-19 Update](https://arkieva.com/covid-19-update-doing-our-part-to-get-covid-19-resilient/)
- [Arkieva demand and production planning solution for Wells Enterprises recognized as Top Supply Chain Project](https://arkieva.com/sdce-2025-top-supply-chain-planning-projects-wells/) - Arkieva announces recognition on the 2025 Supply & Demand Chain Executive list of Top Supply Chain Planning Projects for their work with Wells Enterprises.
- [Arkieva Delivers End-to-End Supply Chain Planning Optimization Software Solution for Wells Enterprises](https://arkieva.com/wells-enterprises-implements-supply-chain-planning-software/)
- [Tata Consumer Products Limited Selects Arkieva Software to Manage Tea Blend Optimization Process](https://arkieva.com/tata-consumer-selects-arkieva-supply-chain-planning-software/) - TCPL recently chose Arkieva's supply chain planning software to optimize and manage its' tea blending and associated raw materials procurement process.
- [Arkieva Recognized as Great Supply Chain Partner For Improving Efficiency and Visibility For Wells Enterprises](https://arkieva.com/supplychainbrain-great-supply-chain-partner-winner/) - SupplyChainBrain has recognized Arkieva as a Great Supply Chain Partner for work with high-growth ice cream manufacturer, Wells Enterprises.
- [Arkieva Recognized in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Planning Solutions](https://arkieva.com/challenger-gartner-magic-quadrant-supply-planning-2024/) - Arkieva named challenger in Gartner® 2024 Magic Quadrant™ for transformative supply chain planning solutions. Read our announcement to learn more.
- [Arkieva Announces Strategic Growth Investment from Banneker Partners](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-strategic-growth-investment-banneker-partners/) - Discover how Arkieva’s new partnership with Banneker Partners will accelerate product innovation and customer value across the supply chain planning landscape.
- [Arkieva Recognized as a 2025 Top Logistics and Supply Chain Technology Provider](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-inbound-logistics-top-supply-chain-planning-provider/) - For the second straight year, Inbound Logistics selects Arkieva from competitive field for spot on list of top 100 supply chain planning technology providers.
- [Arkieva Announces Anand Iyer as CEO](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-announces-anand-iyer-ceo-supply-chain-leadership/) - Arkieva appoints Anand Iyer as CEO, bringing 30 years of supply chain and technology expertise to drive growth and strengthen supply chain leadership.
- [McBride Selects Arkieva Supply Chain Software to Strengthen their S&OP and Capacity Planning Processes](https://arkieva.com/mcbride-selects-arkieva-supply-chain-software-to-strengthen-their-sop-and-capacity-planning-processes/)
- [Lush Teams Up with Arkieva to Improve Demand, Inventory, and Financial Planning](https://arkieva.com/lush-teams-up-with-arkieva-to-improve-demand-inventory-and-financial-planning/)
- [Gartner Positions Arkieva in the 2016 Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning System of Record](https://arkieva.com/gartner-positions-arkieva-in-the-2016-magic-quadrant-for-supply-chain-planning-system-of-record/)
- [Arkieva Sponsors Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-sponsors-gartner-supply-chain-executive-conference-and-leads-discussion-on-collaborative-demand-planning-with-owens-corning/) - Arkieva sponsors the 2017 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference, presenting a session on collaborative demand planning with Owens Corning.
- [Arkieva’s Dr. Ken Fordyce Guest on the IBF Practitioner Podcast](https://arkieva.com/arkievas-dr-ken-fordyce-guest-on-the-ibf-practitioner-podcast-in-scm-hosted-by-eric-wilson/) - Arkieva's Dr. Ken Fordyce joins the IBF Practitioner Podcast, discussing building strong relationships between demand and supply planning.
- [Experience better planning with Arkieva at Gartner Win a Free ticket to attend the Gartner Symposium in Orlando](https://arkieva.com/experience-better-planning-with-arkieva-at-gartner-win-a-free-ticket-to-attend-the-gartner-symposium-in-orlando/)
- [Arkieva Recognized By Gartner Inc. In The First Magic Quadrant For Sales And Operations Planning Systems Of Differentiation](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-recognized-by-gartner-inc-in-the-first-magic-quadrant-for-sales-and-operations-planning-systems-of-differentiation/) - Arkieva has been positioned as a Challenger within the 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Sales and Operations Planning Systems of Differentiation.
- [Practical Consideration in Forecast Value Added (FVA) Analysis by Harpal Singh, Sanjiv Raman and Eric Wilson, featured in Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting](https://arkieva.com/practical-consideration-in-forecast-value-added-fva-analysis/) - Our forecasting experts identify practical considerations in applying Forecast Value Added (FVA) analysis within a demand-management process.
- [Arkieva Named a Top 100 Supply Chain Partner](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-named-a-top-100-supply-chain-partner/)
- [Arkieva Receives Recognition From SupplyChainBrain Magazine as a Top 100 Supply Chain Partner](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-receives-recognition-from-supplychainbrain-magazine-as-a-top-100-supply-chain-partner/)
- [Grande Cheese Implements a Scalable Supply Planning Solution from Arkieva](https://arkieva.com/grande-cheese-implements-a-scalable-supply-planning-solution-from-arkieva/)
- [Experience Better Planning with Arkieva at IBF](https://arkieva.com/experience-better-planning-with-arkieva-at-ibf/)
- [Arkieva Named as a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-named-as-a-leader-in-the-2019-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-sales-and-operations-planning-systems-of-differentiation/)
- [New Organization Designed to Support Customer Growth and Technology Trends](https://arkieva.com/new-organization-announced/) - We are excited to announce a new organization designed to support customer growth and technology trends! Read our latest press release for more information and details.
- [Global S&OP and IBP Best Practices Conference](https://arkieva.com/ibf-sop-ibp-best-practices-conference/)
- [Arkieva is Again Recognized as a Visionary by Gartner® in the 2022 Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Planning](https://arkieva.com/visionary-gartner-magic-quadrant-2022/)
- [Build a Resilient Supply Chain at Gartner Supply Chain Symposium | Xpo](https://arkieva.com/build-a-resilient-supply-chain-at-gartner-supply-chain-symposium-xpo/)
- [Arkieva Nominee Renaud Perray Named 2016 Pro to Know by Supply & Demand Chain Executive](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-nominee-renaud-perray-named-2016-pro-to-know-by-supply-demand-chain-executive/)
- [“Move on from Microsoft Excel?” by Sujit Singh, featured in Foresight Magazine](https://arkieva.com/move-on-from-microsoft-excel-by-sujit-singh-featured-in-foresight-magazine/) - \r\n\r\n\r\n hbspt.forms.create({\r\nregion: \"na1\",\r\nportalId: \"2682580\",\r\nformId: \"7c231a2d-a84a-4672-a18e-5db57145e86c\"\r\n});\r\n", "_pb-text_wysiwyg": "field_6132209e1552d", "pb-text_bg": "dark", "_pb-text_bg": "field_6139cd7e42189" }, "align": "", "mode": "preview", "wpClassName": "wp-block-acf-texteditor" } /-->
- [Arkieva Receives 2017 Supply & Demand Chain Executive Green Supply Chain Award](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-receives-2017-supply-demand-chain-executive-green-supply-chain-award/)
- [Arkieva COO Contributes to Discussion on Leveraging Machine Learning](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-coo-contributes-to-discussion-on-leveraging-machine-learning-in-supply-chain-planning-on-forbes-com/)
- [Arkieva earns a high spot for completeness of Gartner Vision Quadrant](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-earns-the-third-highest-spot-for-completeness-of-vision-quadrant-in-the-2021-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-supply-chain-planning-solutions/)
- [Arkieva Wins APICS ‘Company of The Year’ Award for 2017](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-wins-apics-company-of-the-year-award-for-2017/)
- [Arkieva’s Dr. Ken Fordyce Participates in “Modeling and Analysis of Semiconductor Supply Chains” Seminar](https://arkieva.com/arkievas-dr-ken-fordyce-participates-in-modeling-and-analysis-of-semiconductor-supply-chains-seminar/)
- [Arkieva COO Sujit Singh Presents a Spotlight Session](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-coo-sujit-singh-presents-a-spotlight-session-on-preventing-a-disruptive-supply-chain-process-for-pharmaceutical-and-bioscience-industries/)
- [Supply Chain Webinar on Segmenting Customers and Products](https://arkieva.com/supply-chain-webinar-on-segmenting-customers-and-products/)
- [Supply Chain Webinar: Setting up a Collaborative Demand Planning Process](https://arkieva.com/supply-chain-webinar-setting-up-a-collaborative-demand-planning-process/)
- [Arkieva is exhibiting June 16-17 at “The Best of the Best S&OP Conference”](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-is-exhibiting-june-16-17-at-the-best-of-the-best-sop-conference/)
- [Arkieva COO Shapes Discussion on Demand Planning in the Bioscience & Pharmaceutical Industries](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-coo-shapes-discussion-on-demand-planning-in-the-bioscience-pharmaceutical-industries/)
- [Arkieva Announces Premium Sponsorship of SAPInsider Logistics and SCM 2017](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-announces-premium-sponsorship-of-sapinsider-logistics-and-scm-2017/)
- [Arkieva Positioned as a Visionary in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-positioned-as-a-visionary-in-the-2017-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-sales-and-operations-planning-systems-of-differentiation/)
- [EBN: Here’s What Your Supply Chain Performance Dashboard Is Missing](https://arkieva.com/ebn-heres-what-your-supply-chain-performance-dashboard-is-missing/)
- [Dr. Alfred Degbotse joins senior analytics team at Arkieva](https://arkieva.com/dr-alfred-degbotse-joins-the-award-winning-senior-analytics-team-at-arkieva-as-senior-analytics-optimization-consultant/)
- [Arkieva Named to Food Logistics’ 2017 FL100+ Top Software and Technology Providers List](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-named-to-food-logistics-2017-fl100-top-software-and-technology-providers-list/)
- [Arkieva Creates Super Bowl Sentiment Tool to Track Excitement Levels of the Eagles and Patriots Fans](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-creates-super-bowl-sentiment-tool-to-track-excitement-levels-of-the-eagles-and-patriots-fans/)
- [Arkieva Sponsors Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-sponsors-gartner-supply-chain-executive-conference-and-presents-session-on-sales-prediction-with-lush/)
- [AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals Achieves a One-Plan Harmonized S&OP Process with Arkieva](https://arkieva.com/akzonobel-specialty-chemicals-achieves-a-one-plan-harmonized-sop-process-with-arkieva/)
- [Duvel Moortgat Beer Brews an Improved Demand and Inventory Management Process with Arkieva](https://arkieva.com/duvel-moortgat-beer-brews-an-improved-demand-and-inventory-management-process-with-arkieva/)
- [Arkieva Analytics Director to lead a team for the first ever Freestyle O.R. Supreme “Frame That Problem” at 2018 INFORMS Conference](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-analytics-director-to-lead-a-team-for-the-first-ever-freestyle-o-r-supreme-frame-that-problem-at-2018-informs-conference/)
- [Arkieva Presents at SHFM Critical Issues Conference in New York City](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-presents-at-society-for-hospitality-and-food-service-management-shfm-critical-issues-conference-in-new-york-city/)
- [Arkieva Customer Linde to Present at the Gartner Supply Chain Conference on Optimizing Operations with a Supply Chain Digital Twin](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-customer-linde-to-present-at-the-gartner-supply-chain-conference-on-optimizing-operations-with-a-supply-chain-digital-twin/)
- [Arkieva Customers Escalade Sports and Advanced Drainage Systems to Present at the Gartner Supply Chain Conference](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-customers-escalade-sports-and-advanced-drainage-systems-to-present-at-the-gartner-supply-chain-conference/)
- [Inbound Logistics: E-Commerce Fulfillment – No Pain, No Gain](https://arkieva.com/inbound-logistics-e-commerce-fulfillment-no-pain-no-gain/)
- [Lavazza Professional Implements the Arkieva Demand Planner](https://arkieva.com/lavazza-professional-implements-the-arkieva-demand-planner/)
- [COVID-19 Update](https://arkieva.com/covid-19-update-our-devotion-to-our-arkieva-community/)
- [Samsonite Implements Arkieva](https://arkieva.com/samsonite-the-indian-subsidiary-of-worlds-largest-travel-luggage-company-implements-arkieva/)
- [Arkieva Enhances S&OP Collaboration with Release of Arkieva Beacon](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-enhances-sop-collaboration-with-release-of-arkieva-beacon/)
- [Arkieva Enhances Supply Chain Digital Transformation](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-enhances-supply-chain-digital-transformation-with-release-of-their-new-machine-learning-forecasting-and-roi-solution-swifcast/)
- [Arkieva Sponsors Gartner UK Supply Chain Executive Conference and Leads Discussion on Creating a Standardized S&OP with ONTEX](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-sponsors-gartner-uk-supply-chain-executive-conference-and-leads-discussion-on-creating-a-standardized-sop-with-ontex/)
- [[Video] Why You Should Take Advantage of Leading Forecasting Indicators](https://arkieva.com/video-why-you-should-take-advantage-of-leading-forecasting-indicators/)
- [[Video] Arkieva COO Sujit Singh Discusses Demand Sensing & Shaping](https://arkieva.com/video-arkieva-coo-sujit-singh-discusses-demand-sensing-shaping/)
- [Arkieva Nominee Bryce Treese Named 2016 Pro to Know by Supply & Demand Chain Executive](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-nominee-bryce-treese-named-2016-pro-to-know-by-supply-demand-chain-executive/)
- [Arkieva to Support Flint Michigan Water Fund](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-to-support-flint-michigan-water-fund/)
- [ONTEX Selects Arkieva Software to Manage the Sales and Operations Planning Process](https://arkieva.com/ontex-selects-arkieva-software-to-manage-the-sales-and-operations-planning-process/)
- [Business Planning & Forecasting: Best Practices Conference w/ Leadership Forum](https://arkieva.com/business-planning-forecasting-best-practices-conference-w-leadership-forum/)
- [Supply Chain Insights Global Summit](https://arkieva.com/supply-chain-insights-global-summit/)
- [Arkieva Recognized By SupplyChainBrain Magazine As A Great Supply Chain Partner](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-recognized-by-supplychainbrain-magazine-as-a-great-supply-chain-partner/)
- [Owens Corning Goes For S&OP Excellence Together With Solventure And Arkieva](https://arkieva.com/owens-corning-goes-for-sop-excellence-together-with-solventure-and-arkieva/)
- [Arkieva Solutions Director Dr. Ken Fordyce Invited to Join the Productions and Management Society (POMS)](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-solutions-director-dr-ken-fordyce-invited-to-join-the-productions-and-management-society-poms/)
- [Arkieva: Strengthening Your Supply Chain Nerve by Nandini Mukherjee featured in Enterprise Resource Planning Insights](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-strengthening-your-supply-chain-nerve-by-nandini-mukherjee-featured-in-enterprise-resource-planning-insights/)
- [Arkieva Named to 2015 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-named-to-2015-supply-demand-chain-executive-100/)
- [Arkieva Named a 2015 Top Logistics IT Provider by Inbound Logistics Magazine](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-named-a-2015-top-logistics-it-provider-by-inbound-logistics-magazine/)
- [INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics & Operations Research](https://arkieva.com/informs-conference-on-business-analytics-operations-research/)
- [Michael Morris Named as 2015 Pro to Know by Supply & Demand Chain Executive](https://arkieva.com/michael-morris-named-as-2015-pro-to-know-by-supply-demand-chain-executive/)
- [Arkieva Nominee Eric Wilson Named as 2015 Pro To Know by Supply & Demand Chain Executive](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-nominee-eric-wilson-named-as-2015-pro-to-know-by-supply-demand-chain-executive/)
- [Arkieva Nominee William Duty Named 2015 Pro to Know by Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-nominee-william-duty-named-2015-pro-to-know-by-supply-demand-chain-executive-magazine/)
- [Webinar: Supply Chain Metrics that Matter](https://arkieva.com/webinar-supply-chain-metrics-that-matter/)
- [Dr. Ken Fordyce Selected to Coach Team in Edelman Competition for Best Application of Analytics](https://arkieva.com/dr-ken-fordyce-selected-to-coach-team-in-edelman-competition-for-best-application-of-analytics/)
- [Arkieva Achieves The Microsoft Silver Application Development Competency](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-achieves-the-microsoft-silver-application-development-competency/)
- [Arkieva Brings Accessibility to Forecasting with Release of Sales Central Mobile Application](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-brings-accessibility-to-forecasting-with-release-of-sales-central-mobile-application/)
- [Supply Chain Forecasting & Planning Conference w/ 1-Day Fundamentals of Demand Planning Tutorial](https://arkieva.com/supply-chain-forecasting-planning-conference-w-1-day-fundamentals-of-demand-planning-tutorial/)
- [Arkieva Names Patrick Bridges Training Coordinator](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-names-patrick-bridges-training-coordinator/)
- [Certis Europe Completes Implementation Of The Arkieva Supply Chain Software For Managing The S&Op Process](https://arkieva.com/certis-europe-completes-implementation-of-the-arkieva-supply-chain-software-for-managing-the-sop-process/)
- [APICS Professional Development Meeting – January 2015](https://arkieva.com/apics-professional-development-meeting-january-2015/)
- [Akzonobel Functional Chemicals Selects Arkieva Software For Demand Planning And Inventory Analysis](https://arkieva.com/akzonobel-functional-chemicals-selects-arkieva-software-for-demand-planning-and-inventory-analysis/)
- [Arkieva Named To Food Logistics 2014 Fl100+](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-named-to-food-logistics-2014-fl100/)
- [APICS 2014](https://arkieva.com/apics-2014/)
- [Best Practices in Inventory Management Seminar – October 9, 2014](https://arkieva.com/best-practices-in-inventory-management-seminar-october-9-2014/)
- [Best Practices in Inventory Management Seminar – October 2, 2014](https://arkieva.com/best-practices-in-inventory-management-seminar-october-2-2014/)
- [Supply Chain Insights Global Summit 2014](https://arkieva.com/supply-chain-insights-global-summit-2014/)
- [IBF: Business Planning & Forecasting: Best Practices Conference w/ Leadership Forum](https://arkieva.com/ibf-business-planning-forecasting-best-practices-conference-w-leadership-forum/)
- [LogiChem 2014](https://arkieva.com/logichem-2014/)
- [Live Webinar – Risk Mitigation and Demand Planning Segmentation Strategies](https://arkieva.com/live-webinar-risk-mitigation-and-demand-planning-segmentation-strategies/)
- [Arkieva Names Garry Morton Director of Sales](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-names-garry-morton-director-of-sales/)
- [Linde Completes Implementation Of The Arkieva Supply Chain Planner In North America](https://arkieva.com/linde-completes-implementation-of-the-arkieva-supply-chain-planner-in-north-america/)
- [“Critical Skills for the Business Forecaster” by Sujit Singh, featured in Forecast Magazine](https://arkieva.com/critical-skills-for-the-business-forecaster-by-sujit-singh-featured-in-forecast-magazine/)
- [Certis Europe Selects Arkieva](https://arkieva.com/certis-europe-selects-arkieva/)
- [“How to Use What-if Analysis in Sales and Operations Planning” by Sujit Singh and Jane Lee, featured in the Journal of Business Forecasting Magazine](https://arkieva.com/how-to-use-what-if-analysis-in-sales-and-operations-planning-by-sujit-singh-and-jane-lee-featured-in-the-journal-of-business-forecasting-magazine/)
- [Arkieva appoints Dr. Ken Fordyce to the newly created position of solutions director, semiconductor and analytics.](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-appoints-dr-ken-fordyce-to-the-newly-created-position-of-solutions-director-semiconductor-and-analytics/)
- [Arkieva Expands Its Global Presence by Opening New Office in India](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-expands-its-global-presence-by-opening-new-office-in-india/)
- [AkzoNobel Surface Chemistry Selects Arkieva S&OP & Inventory Analyzer for Global Planning](https://arkieva.com/akzonobel-surface-chemistry-selects-arkieva-sop-inventory-analyzer-for-global-planning/)
- [Arkieva Nominee Paul Johnson Named as 2013 Pro to Know by Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-nominee-paul-johnson-named-as-2013-pro-to-know-by-supply-demand-chain-executive-magazine/)
- [Arkieva Completes Major Supply Chain Software Upgrade for INEOS](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-completes-major-supply-chain-software-upgrade-for-ineos/)
- [Arkieva Named to Food Logistics 2012 FL100](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-named-to-food-logistics-2012-fl100/)
- [Arkieva Appoints Three New Managers in Expansion of its Marketing & Sales Staff](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-appoints-three-new-managers-in-expansion-of-its-marketing-sales-staff/)
- [MESSIER-BUGATTI- DOWTY Selects ARKIEVA Supply Chain Software for Forecasting and Managing the Sales & Operations Planning Process](https://arkieva.com/messier-bugatti-dowty-selects-arkieva-supply-chain-software-for-forecasting-and-managing-the-sales-operations-planning-process/)
- [Arkieva Appoints Three New Directors in Move to Better Address Customer Needs and New Opportunities](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-appoints-three-new-directors-in-move-to-better-address-customer-needs-and-new-opportunities/)
- [PCCR USA Selects Arkieva Software for Demand Planning, Production Planning, & Inventory Analysis](https://arkieva.com/pccr-usa-selects-arkieva-software-for-demand-planning-production-planning-inventory-analysis/)
- [Supply Chain Consultants, Reflecting its Evolution and Growth as a Software Provider, Changes Name to Arkieva](https://arkieva.com/supply-chain-consultants-reflecting-its-evolution-and-growth-as-a-software-provider-changes-name-to-arkieva/)
- [Arkieva Named a Top Logistics IT Provider by Inbound Logistics Magazine for its Advanced Planning Software](https://arkieva.com/arkieva-named-a-top-logistics-it-provider-by-inbound-logistics-magazine-for-its-advanced-planning-software/)
- [Momentive Specialty Chemicals Manages S&OP Process Using the Arkieva S&OP](https://arkieva.com/momentive-specialty-chemicals-manages-sop-process-using-the-arkieva-sop/)
- [Predicting Demand Levels Down the Road” Inbound Logistics](https://arkieva.com/predicting-demand-levels-down-the-road-inbound-logistics/)
- [INVISTA Apparel Selects Arkieva Demand Planner](https://arkieva.com/invista-apparel-selects-arkieva-demand-planner/)
- [S&DCE Magazine Recognizes Arkieva for Helping a Major Chemical Company Prepare their Supply Chain for Post-Recessionary Growth](https://arkieva.com/sdce-magazine-recognizes-arkieva-for-helping-a-major-chemical-company-prepare-their-supply-chain-for-post-recessionary-growth/)
- [Tempur-Pedic Selects Arkieva’s Supply Chain Planning and Forecasting Software Solutions](https://arkieva.com/tempur-pedic-selects-arkievas-supply-chain-planning-and-forecasting-software-solutions/)
- [Supply Chain Consultants Named Top Logistics IT Provider by Inbound Logistics Magazine for Fourth Consecutive Year](https://arkieva.com/supply-chain-consultants-named-top-logistics-it-provider-by-inbound-logistics-magazine-for-fourth-consecutive-year/)
- [Time to Take a Second Look at Railcar Planning” by Harpal Singh, featured on SupplyChainBrain](https://arkieva.com/time-to-take-a-second-look-at-railcar-planning-by-harpal-singh-featured-on-supplychainbrain/)
- [“The Role of S&OP in a Depressed Economy” featured in Dansk Inkobs og Logistik](https://arkieva.com/the-role-of-sop-in-a-depressed-economy-featured-in-dansk-inkobs-og-logistik/)
- [“Best Practices for Industry Leaders” featured in Manufacturing Today](https://arkieva.com/best-practices-for-industry-leaders-featured-in-manufacturing-today/)
- [“Critical Demand Planning Skills for Difficult Times” featured on Supply & Demand Chain Executive](https://arkieva.com/critical-demand-planning-skills-for-difficult-times-featured-on-supply-demand-chain-executive/)
- [Supply Chain Experts From IBM And SCC Team Up For NCSU Workshop On Planning Production And Inventory](https://arkieva.com/supply-chain-experts-from-ibm-and-scc-team-up-for-ncsu-workshop-on-planning-production-and-inventory/)
- [“Ripe for Success” featured on Food Logistics](https://arkieva.com/ripe-for-success-featured-on-food-logistics/)
- [Next-generation Supply Chain Optimization](https://arkieva.com/next-generation-supply-chain-optimization/)
- [“Low-Margin Products, High-Service Demands Drive Innovene’s Supply Chain Choices” featured in Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies](https://arkieva.com/low-margin-products-high-service-demands-drive-innovenes-supply-chain-choices-featured-in-global-logistics-supply-chain-strategies/)
- [“From Spreadsheets to Supply-chain Planning Implementation: How Sweet It Is!” featured in Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies](https://arkieva.com/from-spreadsheets-to-supply-chain-planning-implementation-how-sweet-it-is-featured-in-global-logistics-supply-chain-strategies/)

## Pages

- [Home new](https://arkieva.com/) - Arkieva supply chain planning software helps process and manufacturing leaders improve forecasting, optimize inventory and align S&OP at scale.
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- [Sustainable Planning](https://arkieva.com/sustainable-supply-chain-planning/) - Optimize your supply chain for sustainability. Our planning software helps improve resource efficiency while supporting long-term profitability and resilience.
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- [Resources](https://arkieva.com/resources/) - Explore Arkieva's supply chain planning resources: white papers, webinars, guides and case studies to improve forecasting, S&OP and inventory planning.
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- [Cloud](https://arkieva.com/platform/cloud/) - Speed adoption, limit IT investment and access your secure network anywhere with cloud-based supply chain management solutions. Learn about our cloud services.
- [Implementation Method](https://arkieva.com/platform/implementation-method/) - Experience results from your software for SCM sooner and love your finished product. See how our rapid iterative implementation process shaves off weeks.
- [Orbit](https://arkieva.com/platform/akieva-orbit/) - Get data-driven answers and collaborate on S&OP processes faster. Arkieva Orbit is an advanced in-memory digital platform for integrated supply chain planning.
- [Platform](https://arkieva.com/platform/) - Understand whether Arkieva supply chain planning software is a fit for you. We believe it must equip planners by modeling and presenting data effectively.
- [Order Promising Engine](https://arkieva.com/supply-planning/order-promising-engine/) - Add confidence to your order promising. Improve visibility to available-to-promise inventory and make the best decision for you and your customers.
- [Rough Cut Capacity Planning](https://arkieva.com/supply-planning/rough-cut-capacity-planning/) - Map long-term production, inventory and raw material needs with our rough-cut capacity planning tool. Get ahead of capacity constraints and reduce excess.
- [Replenishment Planner](https://arkieva.com/supply-planning/replenishment-planner/) - Make better distribution and materials requirement planning decisions with our replenishment planning tool. Smart allocation for multi-echelon supply chains.
- [Supply Planner](https://arkieva.com/supply-planning/supply-planner/) - Model supply scenarios to make more profitable decisions. Our supply planning software makes it easy to generate supply reports and contingency plan.
- [Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimizer](https://arkieva.com/inventory-planning/multi-echelon-inventory-optimizer/) - Calculate inventory targets across your entire network with multi-echelon inventory optimization. Achieve the right safety stock level at each location.
- [Inventory Analyzer](https://arkieva.com/inventory-planning/inventory-analyzer/) - Balance inventory investments and customer service. Analyze, reduce excess and prevent stockouts from a single screen with inventory management software.
- [S&OP Management](https://arkieva.com/sales-and-operations-planning-software/) - Arkieva's S&OP planning software helps complex manufacturers align teams, reduce decision cycles and build plans that hold up under real-world conditions.
- [IBP](https://arkieva.com/sales-and-operations-planning-software/integrated-business-planning-software/) - Arkieva's integrated business planning (IBP) software helps complex manufacturers align strategy and execution under real-world conditions.
- [Sentiment Analysis](https://arkieva.com/demand-planning/sentiment-analysis/) - A viral video or a negative review can change everything. Align your demand plan to customer sentiment with a social listening and sentiment analysis tool.
- [Sensing and Shaping](https://arkieva.com/demand-planning/sales-predictor/) - Focus sales efforts with real-time customer insights and sales forecasting. Start predicting your most probable, profitable sales opportunities.
- [Demand Analysis](https://arkieva.com/demand-planning/demand-analysis/) - Easily segment customers and products according to volume and revenue with our demand analysis tool. Improve planning with a deeper understanding of demand.
- [Product Lifecycle](https://arkieva.com/demand-planning/life-cycle-management/) - Improve demand forecasts for new products and create effective inventory strategies for every stage. Explore software for proactive life cycle management.
- [Collaborative Planning](https://arkieva.com/sales-and-operations-planning-software/collaborative-planning/) - Centralize the documents and interactions in your planning, forecasting and replenishment activities. See how our CFPR solution can streamline collaboration.
- [What-if Scenario Analysis](https://arkieva.com/sales-and-operations-planning-software/what-if-scenario-analysis/) - Manage uncertainty with a software solution built for what-if analysis. Understand trade-offs between stock and service, price elasticity and other factors.
- [Beacon](https://arkieva.com/sales-and-operations-planning-software/beacon/) - Translate your S&OP process into actionable tasks. Get on the same page and pinpoint potential disruptions with a centralized interface, Arkieva Beacon.
- [Perfomance Management](https://arkieva.com/sales-and-operations-planning-software/perfomance-management/) - Measure and improve your demand forecast accuracy. Determine the accuracy of your forecasts, uncover bias and analyze errors to inform future demand planning.
- [Sales Central](https://arkieva.com/sales-and-operations-planning-software/sales-central/) - Equip sales reps with an S&OP application to manage customer forecasts on the go, even from an iPad. Securely access powerful analytics from anywhere.
- [Problems We Solve](https://arkieva.com/about/our-supply-chain-planning-solutions/) - Arkieva's supply chain planning solutions help complex manufacturers plan for the unpredictable, and make decisions that hold up in the real world.
- [Why Arkieva](https://arkieva.com/about/why-arkieva/) - Discover why leading businesses choose Arkieva for supply chain optimization software. Drive efficiency and impact with a robust solution tailored to your needs.
- [Solutions](https://arkieva.com/supply-chain-planning-solutions/) - Without adaptive supply chain planning solutions, resilience remains theoretical, and your team gets stuck in firefighting mode.
- [Financial Planning](https://arkieva.com/demand-planning/financial-planning-supply-chain-planning-solutions/) - Drive profitability and align finance with supply chain operations. Arkieva's Financial Planning solution optimizes margins and cash flow with AI-driven insights.
- [Supply Planning](https://arkieva.com/supply-planning/) - Discover how Arkieva's supply planning software helps optimize inventory, improve forecast accuracy and streamline operations for better decision-making.
- [Inventory Planning](https://arkieva.com/inventory-planning/) - Balance inventory, reduce stockouts and improve efficiency with Arkieva’s Inventory Planning Software—designed for smarter, data-driven decisions.
- [Demand Planning](https://arkieva.com/demand-planning/) - Optimize your supply chain with Arkieva's Demand Planning solution. AI-driven forecasting and real-time insights help you make data-driven, proactive decisions.
- [Request a Demo](https://arkieva.com/request-a-demo/) - Discover how Arkieva's AI-driven supply chain software can empower your enterprise. Request a personalized demo today to boost efficiency and profitability.
- [Adoption Is the ROI](https://arkieva.com/adoption-is-the-roi/) - Most supply chain planning systems fail to deliver ROI after go-live. Learn why adoption breaks down, and how to close the gap in complex manufacturing environments.
- [Persona: SC Professional](https://arkieva.com/supply-chain-planning-process-manufacturers/) - Arkieva helps supply chain planning teams model real constraints, reduce inventory waste and make faster tradeoff decisions. Built for process manufacturing.
- [Persona: Business Executive](https://arkieva.com/supply-chain-planning-executives/) - Arkieva helps process manufacturing executives make faster, higher-quality supply chain planning decisions with full visibility into tradeoffs and constraints.
- [Persona: IT](https://arkieva.com/supply-chain-planning-it-integration/) - Arkieva helps supply chain planning teams model real constraints, reduce inventory waste and make faster tradeoff decisions. Built for process manufacturing.
- [Partnerships](https://arkieva.com/about/supply-chain-technology-partnerships/) - Explore Arkieva’s supply chain technology partnerships with leading technology, consulting, and optimization firms supporting global implementations.
- [Who We Are](https://arkieva.com/about/) - Arkieva is a supply chain planning software provider with 30+ years of experience delivering optimization and decision support for complex manufacturing.
- [Analytics Experts](https://arkieva.com/about3/analytics-experts/) - Get more than technology alone - get support. A team of PhDs with over 300 years of supply chain analytics and optimization experience, here to problem solve.
- [Industries](https://arkieva.com/industries/) - Every industry has its challenges. Arkieva provides supply chain planning built for your world; simplifying complexity and supporting smarter growth.
- [Process Manufacturing Supply Chain Planning Software](https://arkieva.com/industries/process-supply-chain-planning/) - Arkieva's Process Supply Chain Planning Software helps process manufacturers optimize inventory, improve forecast accuracy and streamline operations.
- [Chemical Manufacturing Supply Chain Planning Software](https://arkieva.com/industries/chemical-supply-chain-planning/) - Chemical supply chain planning software that helps manufacturers manage tank constraints, optimize sequencing and synchronize bulk and packaging operations.
- [Food & Beverage Supply Chain Planning Software](https://arkieva.com/industries/food-beverage-supply-chain-planning/) - Short shelf lives and volatile demand leave no room for error. Arkieva's food & beverage supply chain planning reduces waste, improves forecasts and keeps food fresh.
- [CPG Supply Chain Planning Software](https://arkieva.com/industries/cpg-supply-chain-planning/) - Arkieva delivers CPG supply chain planning that improves forecast accuracy, streamlines promotions and protects margins in fast-moving markets.
- [Forecasting Methods](https://arkieva.com/demand-planning/forecasting-methods/) - Boost your supply chain with AI-driven forecasting software that senses and shapes demand in real-time, enabling proactive planning and data-driven decision-making.
- [AI](https://arkieva.com/platform/ai-supply-chain-planning-solutions/) - Transform your supply chain with Arkieva’s AI in Supply Chain Planning: forecast at scale, detect risks early and automate actions with confidence.
- [Promotion Planning](https://arkieva.com/demand-planning/promotion-planning/) - Boost ROI with Arkieva’s promotion planning software. Optimize strategies, adjust forecasts and drive results with AI-powered insights for your industry.
- [Scheduling](https://arkieva.com/supply-planning/production-scheduling/) - Streamline complex production schedules with ease using Arkieva's Production Scheduling Software. Increase throughput and meet demand seamlessly.
- [One-Plan S&OP Software](https://arkieva.com/homepage/) - Create a better end-to-end supply chain planning process. See how Arkieva technology connects and improve your demand, supply, inventory and S&OP functions.
- [Small Business Solutions](https://arkieva.com/small-business-solutions/) - End-to-end supply chain management software for small businesses. See how you can generate demand, supply, and inventory forecasts in hours - not weeks.
- [Customer Training](https://arkieva.com/customer-training/)
- [Supply Chain Resilience](https://arkieva.com/supply-chain-resilience-software/) - Build supply chain resilience with Arkieva's smart planning software. Trusted by global enterprises for agility, accuracy and innovation.
- [Gartner® Names Arkieva a Challenger in 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Planning Solutions - Thank you](https://arkieva.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-supply-chain-planning-solutions-2025-download/) - Your download of the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Planning Solutions is ready. Explore how Arkieva helps businesses plan smarter.
- [Integration](https://arkieva.com/data-integration/) - Seamlessly integrate and exchange data with a variety of enterprise and desktop systems. Supply chain software installation - customized to your ERP.
- [Enterprise Solutions-FAQ](https://arkieva.com/enterprise-solutions/faq/) - Find answers to frequently asked questions about our flagship enterprise supply chain planning software. From capabilities and cost to compatibility.
- [Optimize Your Supply Chain](https://arkieva.com/optimize-your-supply-chain/) - End-to-end Planning Designed for You
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## Authors

- [Arkieva Software](https://arkieva.com/authors/arkieva-software/)
- [Deepak Bapna](https://arkieva.com/authors/deepak-bapna/)
- [Anand Iyer](https://arkieva.com/authors/anand-iyer/)
- [Justin Evilsizor](https://arkieva.com/authors/justin-evilsizor/)
- [Eric Wilson](https://arkieva.com/authors/eric-wilson/)
- [Jelle Clement](https://arkieva.com/authors/jelle-clement/)
- [Dr. Vicki Mekler](https://arkieva.com/authors/dr-vicki-mekler/)
- [Dr. Robert Tenga](https://arkieva.com/authors/dr-robert-tenga/)
- [Dr. Ken Fordyce](https://arkieva.com/authors/dr-ken-fordyce/)
- [Dr. Harpal Singh](https://arkieva.com/authors/dr-harpal-singh/)
- [Dhiran Singh](https://arkieva.com/authors/dhiran-singh/)
- [Chuck Intrieri](https://arkieva.com/authors/chuck-intrieri/)
- [Christian George](https://arkieva.com/authors/christian-george/)
- [Brianna Scholtz](https://arkieva.com/authors/brianna-scholtz/)
- [Bipin Trivedi](https://arkieva.com/authors/bipin-trivedi/)
- [AtanasStoyanov](https://arkieva.com/authors/atanasstoyanov/)
- [Ashith Hegde](https://arkieva.com/authors/ashith-hegde/)
- [Arkieva Analytics Experts](https://arkieva.com/authors/arkieva-analytics-experts/)
- [Alfred Degbotse](https://arkieva.com/authors/alfred-degbotse/)
- [Ajmal Sirajudeen](https://arkieva.com/authors/ajmal-sirajudeen/)
- [Abhishek Shah](https://arkieva.com/authors/abhishek-shah/)
- [Sujit Singh](https://arkieva.com/authors/sujit-singh/)
- [Kristan Theile](https://arkieva.com/authors/kristan-theile/)
- [Mike Zerr](https://arkieva.com/authors/mike-zerr/)
- [Venkat Nagasubramanian](https://arkieva.com/authors/venkat-nagasubramanian/)
- [Tapan Mallik](https://arkieva.com/authors/tapan-mallik/)
- [Steve Boyd](https://arkieva.com/authors/steve-boyd/)
- [Shruti Agrawal](https://arkieva.com/authors/shruti-agrawal/)
- [Shankara Gurumurthy](https://arkieva.com/authors/shankara-gurumurthy/)
- [Rajesh Samanth](https://arkieva.com/authors/rajesh-samanth/)
- [Prof. Dr. Bram Desmet](https://arkieva.com/authors/prof-dr-bram-desmet/)
- [Philip De Rop](https://arkieva.com/authors/philip-de-rop/)
- [Peter Murphy](https://arkieva.com/authors/peter-murphy/)
- [Nakul Tilak](https://arkieva.com/authors/nakul-tilak/)
- [Vijey Kumar](https://arkieva.com/authors/vijey-kumar/)
- [Michael Quinn](https://arkieva.com/authors/michael-quinn/)
- [Michael Huff](https://arkieva.com/authors/michael-huff/)
- [Matthew Papayanopulos](https://arkieva.com/authors/matthew-papayanopulos/)
- [Martha Kendall Custard](https://arkieva.com/authors/martha-kendall-custard/)
- [Laurie Jacobs](https://arkieva.com/authors/laurie-jacobs/)
- [Kristof Van den Lemmer](https://arkieva.com/authors/kristof-van-den-lemmer/)
- [Kevin Hill](https://arkieva.com/authors/kevin-hill/)
- [Karel Lintermans](https://arkieva.com/authors/karel-lintermans/)
- [Joseph Amalesh](https://arkieva.com/authors/joseph-amalesh/)
- [Jon Shelly](https://arkieva.com/authors/jon-shelly/)

## Blogs

- [FAQs: Digging into the Arkieva Virtual Mailbag](https://arkieva.com/blog/faqs-arkieva-virtual-mailbag/) - We’ve spoken to a lot of people over the years. Here are the answers to some of our most commonly asked questions.
- [Two Sides of the MAPE Coin](https://arkieva.com/blog/two-sides-of-the-mape-coin/) - Mean Absolute Percent Error (MAPE) is a useful measure of forecast accuracy and should be used appropriately.
- [Two Penny Model and COVID-19 Breakthrough Cases – Avoiding Data Driven Disaster](https://arkieva.com/blog/two-penny-model-covid19-breakthrough-cases/) - Learn how a simple binomial model can help anticipate the future including COVID-19 breakthrough cases just as models help a firm estimate it's future.
- [The ROI Challenge for Supply Chain Projects: Lessons from The Trenches by an Aging Jedi Knight](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-project-roi-lessons/) - Supply chain project ROI lessons to know.
- [Sustainability in Supply Chain Planning: Waste or Revenue?](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-planning-sustainability-waste-or-revenue/) - When many companies produce products, they also produce by-products. Often, they have no use for these by-products and so they are discarded or sold off as scrap. But companies that embrace sustainability do not accept this fate. Some companies have found a way to turn their waste streams into revenue streams...
- [Arkieva Supply Chain Scope: Canada Retail Sales Decrease; Is Your Supply Chain a Cyber Threat?](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-news-08-22-16/) - Your weekly supply chain news briefing from Arkieva.
- [Tools of the Trade: National Puzzle Day, Probability and the Board Game Risk](https://arkieva.com/blog/national-puzzle-day-2022/) - This blog discusses how Monte Carlo Simulation can be used to estimate the average number of “wins”, but critically the range of possible “wins” across some interval.
- [My Vision for Supply Chain 2020? Deep Integration!](https://arkieva.com/blog/my-vision-for-supply-chain-2020-deep-integration/) - My Vision for Supply Chain 2020? Deep Integration!
- [Machine Learning: Optimization and Community Intelligence - A Wiser Forecasting](https://arkieva.com/blog/machine-learning-swifcast/) - Arkieva uses a synergy of machine learning, automated intelligence, and advanced optimization for statistics (AOS) to provide this critical function. In this blog, we will provide an example of the importance of AOS to find ALPHA for simple exponential smoothing (defined below).
- [Cost and Complexity – Factory Perspective on Inventory Golden Rules](https://arkieva.com/blog/inventory-cost-complexity-scm/) - The purpose of this blog is to explain a basic costing challenge in factories and their impact on critical SCM analysis and decisions.
- [Machine Learning and AI: Profiling Demand History - A Wiser Forecasting](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-forecasting-swifcast/) - In the simple version of SCM, the goal for demand forecasting is prediction accuracy. In the wiser version, the purpose includes understanding demand.
- [Tools of the Trade: Characteristics of Agents of Change Teams to Drive Successful Investment](https://arkieva.com/blog/characteristics-of-agents-of-change-teams/) - This blog focuses on the need for a small group driving technology that upsets the social order called agents of change (AOC). 
- [Are You Measuring What is Important?](https://arkieva.com/blog/are-you-measuring-what-is-important/) - Key Points: 1) Work hard on finding the ‘perfect’ metric that measures the behavior you are trying to improve. Look for both the cause and the effect. 2) In the absence of such a metric, do not ignore the ones that are only partially good.
- [Hierarchical Supply Chain Planning - S&OP to Execution](https://arkieva.com/blog/hierarchical-supply-chain-planning-sop-to-execution/) - Learn how hierarchical supply chain planning connects S&OP to execution, aligns planning horizons, and improves supply chain performance.
- [DELMIA Quintiq Alternatives: What Process Manufacturers Should Evaluate](https://arkieva.com/blog/delmia-quintiq-alternatives/) - DELMIA Quintiq is a strong scheduling and optimization platform. Here is where process manufacturers tend to find the gaps, and the six questions worth asking before the next change request.
- [Supply Chain Talk: Using Excel for Planning – 4 Telltale Signs That You’ve Pushed Excel to The Limits](https://arkieva.com/blog/using-excel-supply-chain-planning-issues/) - Using Excel for supply chain planning? Here are the 4 telltale signs that you've pushed excel to the limits.
- [The ABCDs of an Excellent Supply Chain](https://arkieva.com/blog/the-abcd-of-an-excellent-supply-chain/) - What constitutes a good supply chain? Here is the A-Z list on creating supply chain excellence.
- [Two Simple Examples to Help You Understand How Supply Chain Optimization Algorithms Work.](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-optimization-algorithm/) - Here’s a basic review of how supply chain optimization solvers that use numeric algorithms work.
- [The ‘Secret Sauce’ to Improving Demand Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/secret-sauce-improving-demand-planning/) - Demand sensing, generation, and shaping - the secret sauce to improving demand planning.
- [Back to the Basics: What’s the Core Purpose of Supply Chain Management?](https://arkieva.com/blog/purpose-supply-chain-management/) - What are the core purpose and components of supply chain management? Here are the fundamentals of SCM needed for an effective strategy.
- [Lessons from IBM: Supply Chain Efficiency & Smart Planning Engines](https://arkieva.com/blog/lessons-from-ibm-supply-chain-efficiency-smart-planning-engines/) - Illustrating the relationship between supply chain efficiency and smarter CPE with a simple example that allocates a non-perishable asset (inventory and work in progress) – which Peter used with great success.
- [Illusively Complex - Effective Approach to Mixing Judgment and Statistics in Forecasting](https://arkieva.com/blog/illusively-complex-effective-approach-to-mixing-judgment-and-statistics-in-forecasting/) - I thought Demand Managment would be a walk in the park. I quickly learned it was illusively complex. One of the critical challenges was finding the “best way” to mix and match judgment and statistical forecasts, where there are typically multiple judgments.
- [How to Report Forecast Accuracy to Management](https://arkieva.com/blog/how-to-report-forecast-accuracy-to-management/) - How do you report forecast accuracy? Here are few tips and calculations to help you measure the right demand planning metrics.
- [How to Determine the Best-Fit Plan with Supply Chain Optimization](https://arkieva.com/blog/determine-best-fit-plan-with-supply-chain-optimization/) - Using Supply Chain Optimization to Make a Best-Fit Prediction
- [Annual Operating Plan Definition: AOP Meaning in Finance](https://arkieva.com/blog/aop-meaning-in-finance/) - Learn what an Annual Operating Plan (AOP) is in finance, why it matters, and how to build one step by step. Definition, benefits, process, and best practices.
- [A Better Way to Forecast Using Attribute Based Dynamic Hierarchies](https://arkieva.com/blog/a-better-way-to-forecast-using-attribute-based-dynamic-hierarchies/) - A better way to forecast using dynamic hierarchies
- [Arkieva Supply Chain Scope: As Ecommerce Businesses Boom,  Distribution Center Availability Becomes Scarce](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-scope-ecommerce-distribution-center-scarcity/) - Supply Chain Scope 07/25/16: Your Monday supply chain briefing from Arkieva.
- [Supply Chain Scope: New Study Shows Rise in US Inventories; California Estimated to Improve Freight Efficiency by 25% in 2030](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-scope-08-08-16/) - Arkieva Supply Chain Scope 08/08/16: Study shows a rise in US inventory and what the Sustainable Freight Action Plan could mean for California.
- [Classical Supply Chain Management Confronts its Quantum Revolution – the Path to Rapid Intelligent Response (RIR)](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-rapid-intelligent-response/) - COVID-19 direct and ancillary events have made clear that uncertainty is an inherent part of the demand-supply network structure. Every firm, on a regular basis, faces “risk situations" such as manufacturing excursion, unexpected new demand or loss of demand, component supplier interruption, etc. This has placed risk management and rapid intelligent response (RIR) front and center in SCM discussions.
- [Sustainability & Circularity in Your Supply Chain Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-planning-sustainability-circularity/) - Learn how climate action relates to supply chain management. There are many ways to move your business to a more sustainable mindset.
- [Supply Chain Planning Challenges: Exciting Times Ahead](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-planning-challenges-exciting-times-ahead/) - Supply Chain Planning Challenges: Exciting Times Ahead
- [Suggested Summer Reading from Arkieva](https://arkieva.com/blog/summer-reading/) - Here are a few articles and blogs on supply and demand planning that recently caught our eye.
- [Which Team has the most die-hard fans? The Eagles or the Patriots? Our Sentiment Analysis Tool Tells It All.](https://arkieva.com/blog/sentiment-analysis-superbowl2018/) - Over the next few days leading up to the Super Bowl, we are tracking the excitement levels of the Patriots and Eagles fans.
- [SAPInsider SCM 2017: Two Demand Planning Sessions That You Shouldn’t Miss](https://arkieva.com/blog/sapinsider-scm-2017-demand-planning-sessions/) - SAPInsider SCM 2017: Demand planning sessions from Arkieva that you would enjoy.
- [Rough Cut Capacity Planning – A Place to Start](https://arkieva.com/blog/rough-cut-capacity-planning-a-place-to-start/) - There are two primary approaches to support management and planners in answering the important questions. 1) Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) and 2) Production Planning.
- [Using Profit based Product Segmentation for Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/profit-product-segmentation-planning/) - Here's how you can use profit based product segmentation to improve the supply chain planning process.
- [Part 3: How NLP Benefits the Supply Chain – Internal Structured Data](https://arkieva.com/blog/part-3-how-nlp-can-benefit-the-supply-chain/) - NLP Semantic parsing methods can be utilized to help transform data questions into advanced database queries - Improving forecast accuracy.
- [Part 1: How Natural Language Processing (NLP) Can Benefit the Supply Chain](https://arkieva.com/blog/part-1-how-nlp-can-benefit-the-supply-chain/) - Natural language processing (NLP) in supply chain software can increase accessibility to more users. Find out how your organization can benefit.
- [New Survey Reveals Levels of Outsourcing in Supply Chain Expected to Grow by Over 40%](https://arkieva.com/blog/new-survey-reveals-levels-outsourcing-supply-chain-expected-grow/) - A New survey reveals soaring levels of outsourcing in supply chain management.
- [Manufacturing Day 2017: [Infographic] The Evolution of Inventory Management Strategies](https://arkieva.com/blog/inventory-management-strategy-infographic/) - To celebrate 2017 manufacturing day, let's take a look at the evolution of inventory management strategy.
- [The Intersection of Supply Chain and Customer](https://arkieva.com/blog/intersection-of-supply-chain-and-customer/) - In these disruptive times, there is immense pressure for supply chain leaders to deliver the goods despite strong supply-side headwinds.
- [What's the cost of doing nothing? Easy tips for uncovering problems before they turn into disasters](https://arkieva.com/blog/help-identify-supply-chain-planning-problems/) - Is there a need to act if no ‘imminent’ repercussions exist? Do business leaders need to be proactive problem solvers?
- [Guide to a Successful Leap to Warp Speed in Central / Supply Planning – LP Genie](https://arkieva.com/blog/guide-to-successful-central-supply-planning/) - The purpose of this blog is to provide some guidelines on when it is time to move from RCCP to LP Genie for your CPE as part of your organization’s journey pulling from years in the trenches and current ongoing activities with clients.
- [Reflections From the 2025 Gartner Supply Chain Symposium in Orlando](https://arkieva.com/blog/gartner-supply-chain-symposium-2025-insights/) - Explore key takeaways from the 2025 Gartner Supply Chain Symposium, from AI and risk management to scenario planning and robotics trends.
- [[Infographic] Forecast Improvement Steps: Simulate, Measure, Refine](https://arkieva.com/blog/forecast-improvement-steps-infographic/) - Improve forecasts with these three essential forecasting steps: simulate, measure, refine.
- [Arkieva Customer Spotlight: Driscoll’s is Evolving Berry Production with Robot Cultivation and Substrate Farming](https://arkieva.com/blog/driscolls-food-beverage-arkieva-customer-spotlight/) - Arkieva client Driscoll's is setting the bar on innovation and sustainability in the industrial agriculture industry.
- [Demand Segmentation Starter Guide](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-segmentation/) - Use this comprehensive guide to get started with your product-customer demand segmentation analysis process.
- [Why Planning Systems Fail After Go-Live (And Why Most Teams Don’t Notice Until It’s Too Late)](https://arkieva.com/blog/planning-systems-fail-after-go-live/) - Why do planning systems fail after go-live? Learn the early signs of adoption breakdown and how to know if your planning software is delivering ROI.
- [Is Your Planning System Still Delivering Value, Or Just Running?](https://arkieva.com/blog/planning-system-delivering-value-or-just-running/) - Most planning systems go live successfully, but stop delivering value over time. Learn why planning ROI stalls and what to do next.
- [How to Select Effective Dashboard KPIs](https://arkieva.com/blog/how-to-select-effective-dashboard-kpis/) - Learn what elevates a KPI above ordinary data, how to select effective KPIs, and when to revise them for meaningful improvement.
- [How to Improve Your Statistical Forecast Using Machine Learning](https://arkieva.com/blog/how-to-improve-your-statistical-forecast-using-machine-learning/) - Learn more about the varying definitions of ML/AI and how they can be leveraged to improve your statistical forecast.
- [How to Build the ROI Case for Planning and Scheduling](https://arkieva.com/blog/how-to-build-the-roi-case-for-planning-and-scheduling/) - Our next live webinar builds the ROI case for planning and scheduling manufacturing operations, which can be likened to planning and going on vacation.
- [How to Achieve Better Operations Scheduling](https://arkieva.com/blog/how-to-achieve-better-operations-scheduling/) - This blog previews our free webinar where Sujit Singh discusses his learnings on how to achieve better operations scheduling.
- [How Forecastable is Your Data?](https://arkieva.com/blog/forecastable-data/) - Having access to an accurate forecast is very beneficial for businesses. If used correctly, it can provide better margins, increase market shares, and many other positive results. At a more tactical level, it can help reduce the costs associated with meeting the customer demand and make the supply chain more efficient.
- [Demand Planning by Segmentation-based Exceptions](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-planning-by-segmentation-based-exceptions/) - Demand planning combinations are at an all-time high and steadily increasing. Segmentation can help focus time on items with the most value.
- [Building the ROI Case for Inventory Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/building-the-roi-case-for-inventory-planning/) - Companies often focus on inventory to free up working capital. An inventory planning solution often requires presenting management with ROI.
- [5 Signs Your Team Has Outgrown Its Planning Tools](https://arkieva.com/blog/5-signs-your-team-has-outgrown-its-planning-tools/) - Are your supply chain planning tools holding your team back? Learn the 5 warning signs your tools have stopped scaling, and what its costing.
- [How To Measure BIAS In Forecast](https://arkieva.com/blog/how-to-measure-bias-in-forecast/) - Forecast Bias Calculation and Formula. Preventing Bias in forecasting (Under or Over Forecasting) is essential to building an excellent supply chain.
- [Holt-Winters Exponential Smoothing (Additive & Multiplicative)](https://arkieva.com/blog/holt-winters-exponential-smoothing/) - Holt-Winters is an exponential smoothing method that adds trend and seasonality to forecasts. Learn how it works, additive vs. multiplicative, and when to use it.
- [Three Steps to a Better Statistical Forecast Setup](https://arkieva.com/blog/better-statistical-forecast-setup/) - Three Steps to a Better Statistical Forecast Setup
- [Global Supply Chain Management: Is Your Supply Chain Susceptible to The Butterfly Effect?](https://arkieva.com/blog/global-supply-chain-management-risk/) - Employing an effective global supply chain management strategy involves looking at internal and risk external factors. Is your business ready?
- [What-if Wednesday: Forecast Simulation – Changing The Beta Parameter in a Forecasting Method](https://arkieva.com/blog/what-if-scenario-forecast-simulation-beta-what-if-wednesday/) - What if scenario forecast simulation: what is the effect of changing the beta parameter in Holt-Winters method?
- [Is Your Supply Chain Ready for Industry 4.0?](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-ready-for-4-0/) - From the move from centralization to decentralization, a cobot world, and smart factories, Industry 4.0 is here and it’s happening fast. Are you ready?
- [Sales & Operational Planning (S&OP) Versus Integrated Business Planning (IBP)](https://arkieva.com/blog/sop-versus-ibp/) - With strong leadership by the executive team, over time, the business begins to think in terms of overall health and welfare of the company, rather than optimizing a function at the expense of the overall company benefits.
- [Five Steps to Develop an Effective S&OP Process – Step 4: Balance Supply and Demand](https://arkieva.com/blog/sop-process-balance-supply-demand/) - Learn some of the key questions and answers with respect to balancing supply and demand.
- [Lessons for COVID-19 and Supply Chain Management - Six Months Later](https://arkieva.com/blog/lessons-covid-19-scm-6-months-later/) - Over the past six months, significant progress has been made in understanding COVID-19 and reducing its health and economic impact. In this blog, we will not rehash this information, but to identify open issues in handling the current challenge of tackling COVID-19 and relate this to the challenge of managing supply chains.
- [COVID Vaccine Logistics: Helpful Lessons from Complex Manufacturing](https://arkieva.com/blog/covid-19-vaccine-logistic-challenges/) - Today we will discuss a few of the logistics challenges associated with getting the COVID-19 vaccine in the arms of the masses.
- [CPE Planning Level, IBP, Elixirs, and the Ongoing Challenge](https://arkieva.com/blog/central-planning-engine-ibp-elixirs-and-ongoing-challenge/) - In SCM there is an ongoing flow of elixirs (magic potion) from ‘false prophets’ claiming that they are an easy path to improved performance. A recent elixir is IBP followed by “doing central planning at the family level” to neutralize the uncertainty associated with estimating demand at the product level. This blog will illustrate the challenge in this effort since factories produce products, not families.
- [Customer-Driven Supply Chain Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/customer-driven-supply-chain-planning/) - The best supply chain planners aren't keeping up, they're pulling ahead. See what customer-driven supply chain planning looks like in practice.
- [How to Improve Forecast Accuracy](https://arkieva.com/blog/how-to-improve-forecast-accuracy/) - The webinar that gives you actionable dos and don'ts for improving forecast accuracy, balancing tool insights with expert input in a volatile supply chain.
- [Shift-Left Risk: A New Operating System for Supply Chain Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/shift-left-risk-supply-chain-planning-architecture/) - Uncover how Shift-Left Risk enables you to move from static optimization to real-time, explainable planning that accounts for volatility in supply chain planning.
- [Planning a Meal You Haven't Ordered Yet: Supply Chain Challenges in Food Processing](https://arkieva.com/blog/food-processing-supply-chain-planning/) - Food processing supply chain planning: manage demand variability, perishability, and coordination challenges. Balance inventory freshness with margins.
- [How To Get Started With Improving Your Supply Chain Processes Today!](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-process-improvement-today/) - Quick tips on how to get started with your supply chain improvement process today.
- [Supply Chain Talk: Do You Have a Supply Chain Knowledge Repository?](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-data-repository/) - Supply Chain Talk: Why do you need a supply chain data repository for planning?
- [Creating an Actionable Plan for Unlocking Working Capital with Inventory Optimization](https://arkieva.com/blog/inventory-optimization-plan-increase-working-capital/) - Create an inventory optimization plan that increases working capital with this simple inventory optimization plan guide.
- [Arkieva COO Shapes Discussion on Demand Planning in the Bioscience & Pharmaceutical Industries](https://arkieva.com/blog/arkieva-coo-shapes-discussion-demand-planning-bioscience-pharmaceutical-industries/) - Sujit Singh to participate in demand planning roundtable for the BioScience and Pharmaceutical industry at DelawareBio Supply Chain Summit.
- [5 Reasons Collaboration Can Make Your Forecast Better](https://arkieva.com/blog/5-reasons-collaboration-can-make-your-forecast-better/) - When businesses try to predict their future demand, they often begin with a mathematics based statistical forecast. Once this is established, some users are asked to provide overrides that can make this statistical forecast better. Typically, this is asked of users who have a client facing role. For example, sales representatives and sales management are
- [Is Your Forecast Biased, Or Just Slow?](https://arkieva.com/blog/forecasting-bias-detection-tracking-signal/) - Learn why trend breaks create forecasting bias and how to detect one-sided errors early with a Tracking Signal that acts as an early warning system.
- [What is Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)?](https://arkieva.com/blog/what-is-sales-and-operations-planning/) - Sales and operations planning (S&OP) aligns demand, supply, and finance in one monthly process. Learn the S&OP cycle, benefits, challenges, and software capabilities.
- [Is Your Forecast Biased Much?](https://arkieva.com/blog/is-your-forecast-biased-much/) - Recently, someone forwarded a Live Science web link to me. The web page had information on how human brains are able to read words and make sense of them even when the letters are jumbled up. The website suggested that it was possible for a human brain to make sense of the words as long
- [It was a Choco Delight: Arkieva Holiday Poem and Video](https://arkieva.com/blog/it-was-a-choco-delight-arkieva-holiday-video-poem/) - At the end of the year, as an Arkieva holiday tradition, we say thank you to our customers by sending chocolates from Belgium (another good reason to become an Arkieva customer). This year was no different. And of course, we treat ourselves to some of the delicious goodness. Here is our holiday video of everyone
- [Invest in Supply Chain Management Technology: Survival and Ability to Respond to Emerging Challenges](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-management-technology-responding-to-challenges/) - When and how to invest in supply chain management technology is a critical question for all firms that is not a one-time question but ongoing. Alas, the investment is not trivial which drives the question “what is the business value of this investment”? This blog will observe the real business value is “survival and responsiveness” and elaborate on the challenges with this evaluation.
- [Arkieva Supply Chain Scope: The Robots Are Coming & Potential Growth in Demand Looms in The Near Future](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-scope-robots-potential-growth-demand/) - 07/18/16 Arkieva Supply Chain Scope: Here’s your Monday supply chain briefing from Arkieva.
- [Q&A: How is Linde Optimizing Operations with a Supply Chain Digital Twin?](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-digital-twin-qa/) - Arkieva Customer, Linde PLC, is a leading supplier of industrial gases in the world. Linde has transformed its network optimization processes by creating a digital twin of its integrated supply chain with Arkieva. I sat down with Richard Wallington, Global Head of Bulk Supply Chain at Linde to find out more.
- [Top 2020 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog](https://arkieva.com/blog/top-supply-chain-strategy-posts-2020/) - Over the past year, the Arkieva Supply Chain Link Blog provided thought leadership and informative posts on supply chain strategy tips, trends, and news. Here we have compiled a list of our popular supply chain posts from 2020.
- [Technology Investment: Lessons from Past Gurus – Importance of Seasoning](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-management-technology-investment/) - For a new technology to be successful it requires the correct seasoning which requires time in the trenches. This blog captures lessons from two past gurus.
- [Part 2: How Natural Language Processing (NLP) Can Benefit the Supply Chain – Internal Unstructured Data](https://arkieva.com/blog/part-2-how-nlp-can-benefit-the-supply-chain/) - Working with unstructured data can be challenging. This blog covers multiple solutions that NLP offers to transform your data.
- [Managing the Complex Network is Key to Profitable Growth](https://arkieva.com/blog/managing-the-complex-network-is-key-to-profitable-growth/) - Highlights from Gartner's webinar on 3 performance lenses that supply chain leaders must apply and balance to drive profitable growth.
- [Investing in SCM Technology: Vision and Trenches – Lessons for a Successful Journey](https://arkieva.com/blog/investing-supply-chain-management-technology/) - The purpose of a vision in this journey is to create a focus on the implementation of decision technology as tools to overcome inherent organizational cognitive limitations of bounded rationality and uncertainty bias to improve SCM. This blog provides some critical lessons to protect a firm’s investment in technology.
- [Inventory Management – Navigating the Trenches Without Losing Sight of the Big Picture](https://arkieva.com/blog/inventory-management-navigating-the-trenches/) - Inventory comes in many forms and flavors; it is the critical element of supply chains that enable a firm to respond quickly and take advantage of scale. However, managing inventory is one of the most difficult aspects of supply chain management since there are competing forces – some pulling for more inventory and others for less.
- [Data Science Tools of the Trade: Monte Carlo Computer Simulation](https://arkieva.com/blog/data-monte-carlo-computer-simulation/) - Monte Carlo Discrete Event Computer Simulation is a particularly powerful and flexible “tool of the trade” for a wide range of challenges in supply chain and operations management. This blog provides some basics on MCDECS, the next blog will use MCDECS to explain why limiting the size of a gathering helps reduce the spread of COVID-19.
- [Optimization and Effective Use of Space – COVID-19 Challenges](https://arkieva.com/blog/covid-19-challenges-optimization/) - For most involved in Supply Chain Management, optimization is viewed as one of the three primary methods to create a supply or central plan that matches or balances assets with demand. Historically effective use of space involved minimizing unused space or maximizing revenue from a fixed amount of space. COVID-19 has upset the social order.
- [COVID-19 Taking the Mystery Out of the APEX Curve and Some Basics on Restoring “Normal”](https://arkieva.com/blog/covid-19-apex-basics-on-restoring-normal/) - This blog provides some basic information on the curve, relates statistical concepts to policy and actions, and examines policy options for a safe restart relating them to the APEX curve. There are three essential groups of action to begin a safe restart: testing, detailed understanding of the impact of mitigation actions, and the ability to do detailed tracking.
- [What is Blockchain Technology Worth to Your Supply Chain?](https://arkieva.com/blog/blockchain-supply-chain/) - Blockchain and supply chain. How will blockchain affect the supply chain? Will it cause improvements?
- [Artificial Intelligence: Getting a Handle on a Moving Target](https://arkieva.com/blog/artificial-intelligence-for-supply-chain-moving-target/) - Artificial intelligence for supply chain is a hot topic. Uncovering misleading claims and understanding the differences between types of AI is crucial.
- [The Wrong Inventory Approach Can Strangle Production Output](https://arkieva.com/blog/wrong-inventory-approach-can-strangle-production-output/) - Successful management of inventory is a hot topic in supply chain management. While it's easy to measure, the cause may be complicated to uncover.
- [The Importance of Product Mix in Capacity Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/the-importance-of-product-mix-in-capacity-planning/) - When engaging in capacity planning, it is important to consider the product mix and seasonality of your business to ensure an effective and accurate outcome.
- [How Tariffs Are Shaping Supply Chain Risk Management](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-risk-management-in-response-to-tariffs/) - Learn how tariffs impact supply chain risk management and what proactive strategies leading companies are using to stay agile, resilient and competitive.
- [Supply Chain Planning in Light of Tariffs](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-planning-in-light-of-tariffs/) - Can your supply chain planning withstand the uncertainty of tariffs? Organizations that leverage what-if scenario planning will be a step ahead.
- [The Supply Chain Planning Ideas That Mattered Most in 2025](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-planning-ideas-that-mattered-most-2025/) - A roundup of Arkieva’s top supply chain planning blogs of 2025, covering Gartner insights, demand and inventory best practices, scheduling and applied AI.
- [Building the ROI Case for Demand Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/roi-case-for-demand-planning/) - Businesses spend a lot of time and money in improving their demand planning. However, the ROI is not always forthcoming.
- [Lessons From the Suez Canal Blockage - Supply Chain in the News](https://arkieva.com/blog/lessons-from-suez-canal-blockage/) - In the past few days, the news of the blockage of the Suez Canal by a massive container ship called the Ever Given has been dominating the news, so much so, that even kids are talking about it. The phrase ‘supply chain’ is now being mentioned more often than ever before in news media.
- [How Can Smaller Manufactures Navigate Competitive Supply Chain Planning Pressures?](https://arkieva.com/blog/how-can-smaller-manufactures-navigate-competitive-pressures-with-saas/) - This article explores the competitive supply chain planning pressures faced by smaller manufacturers and insights into effective strategies to mitigate risk.
- [Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit 2025: A CEO Perspective](https://arkieva.com/blog/gartner-supply-chain-planning-summit-2025-takeaways/) - Executive perspective on the future of supply chain planning, with insights from the 2025 Gartner Summit and what they signal for AI and real-world execution.
- [Going Beyond Historical Data for Forecast Accuracy](https://arkieva.com/blog/forecast-accuracy-historical-data/) - Our focus has been to establish forecast accuracy targets, the goal should be to add value to the business through the forecasting process.
- [3 Aggregation Mistakes When Reporting Forecast Accuracy](https://arkieva.com/blog/forecast-accuracy-aggregation-mistakes/) - It's important to measure and improve the forecast accuracy at the right level of aggregation - not too high and not too low.
- [Digital Supply Chain Transformation: Keys to Success](https://arkieva.com/blog/digital-supply-chain-transformation-success-factors/) - Discover strategies for successful digital supply chain transformation. Learn how to focus on people, processes and technology to overcome common challenges.
- [AI/ML, SCM, The Holy Grail, and Helpful Information from Foresight](https://arkieva.com/blog/ai-ml-scm-the-helpful-information-from-foresight/) - In this blog, we discuss a recent article “Humachine”, which identifies the general challenge of implementing technology to improve SCM decision-making.
- [5 Ways Artificial Intelligence Impacts the Supply Chain](https://arkieva.com/blog/5-ways-artificial-intelligence-impacts-the-supply-chain/) - The adoption of machine learning and artificial intelligence is on the rise, but not at the pace of other transformations. Here are a few reasons why.
- [3 Must-have Inventory Planning Software Features](https://arkieva.com/blog/3-must-have-inventory-planning-software-features/) - This blog covers the top 3 features to look for when implementing inventory planning software to increase visibility and reduce costs.
- [2024 Gartner Critical Capabilities Report Supply Chain Planning Recognizes Arkieva](https://arkieva.com/blog/2024-gartner-critical-capabilities-supply-chain-planning-solutions/) - Explore the latest Gartner® Critical Capabilities Report and its impact on supply chain planning. Discover why Arkieva is recognized in the industry.
- [Automated Forecasting: Finding the Handshake Between Demand and Supply](https://arkieva.com/blog/handshake-between-demand-and-supply/) - Arkieva believes in the value of automated forecasting. An automatically calculated forecast establishes a baseline to begin the process.
- [12 Days of Inventory Optimization](https://arkieva.com/blog/12-days-inventory-optimization/) - One of my favorite Holiday songs growing up was “The 12 Days of Christmas.” There was something about Christmas having 12 days that put me in the holiday spirit.
- [Your Spreadsheet Isn't a Supply Chain Strategy: Meet Arkieva at NASCES 2026](https://arkieva.com/blog/meet-arkieva-at-nasces-2026/) - Arkieva is heading to NASCES 2026 to talk supply chain planning, disruption, and what changes when your plan actually works. Book time with us there.
- [Key Innovations Shaping the Future of Supply Chain Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-planning-innovations-gartner-2026/) - Arkieva breaks down the supply chain planning innovations they feel Gartner identified in their 2026 Magic Quadrant™: AI, scenario intelligence, and what finally drives real adoption.
- [Resilience at What Cost](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-resilience-at-what-cost/) - Supply chain resilience demands financial justification. Learn how to quantify buffer stock and justify safety inventory decisions in planning reviews.
- [How Late Is Your Forecast to the Party? Measuring Trend-Detection Latency](https://arkieva.com/blog/forecast-latency-measurement/) - Measure your forecast latency with a simple 4-step backtest. Quantify trend-detection delays and calculate their impact on your supply chain margins.
- [Show Your Management the Uncertainty You Removed](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-risk-planning-strategy/) - Supply chain risk planning means deciding your response before disruption hits, not during it. See why the plan has to exist first, not get rebuilt each time.
- [What Is Integrated Business Planning? IBP Explained](https://arkieva.com/blog/what-is-integrated-business-planning/) - Integrated Business Planning (IBP) aligns strategy, finance, and operations in one process. See how it works, its benefits, and how to choose IBP software.
- [The Playbook Must Be Built Before the Disruption](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-disruption-planning/) - Most supply chain disruption planning happens after the disruption hits. Here's why that decision should already be made before it does.
- [SAP IBP Covers S&OP. What Handles Detailed Scheduling?](https://arkieva.com/blog/ibp-vs-sop-scheduling-gap/) - SAP IBP handles S&OP well, but detailed production scheduling didn't come with it. Here's where the gap shows up for process manufacturers, and what closing it actually costs.
- [We Knew This Was Possible. Why Wasn’t It In the Plan?](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-risk-planning-before-disruption/) - Most supply chains explain risk after it breaks. See how supply chain risk planning changes when you quantify risk as the plan is built.
- [Can Demand Sensing Tell You the Trend Has Changed, Or Is It Just Noise?](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-sensing-trend-change-detection/) - Demand sensing isn't just about forecast accuracy; it's about catching demand shifts 6-8 weeks earlier. See the math and the noise trap to avoid.
- [Arkieva Named a Challenger in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Planning Solutions in Process Industries](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-planning-solution-magic-quadrant-2026/) - Explore key takeaways from the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ and learn how to evaluate supply chain planning solutions for today’s complex business needs.
- [Is Your Planning System Still Delivering Value, Or Just Running?](https://arkieva.com/blog/is-your-planning-system-still-delivering-value-or-just-running/) - Planning ROI rarely fails. It quietly plateaus. Learn why planning systems stall when the business evolves and the planning environment doesn't.
- [“Dynamic by Design” Means Nothing Without Planning That Works in Reality](https://arkieva.com/blog/dynamic-by-design-means-nothing-without-planning-that-works-in-reality/) - Gartner says supply chains must be Dynamic by Design. See why dynamism depends on planning systems that model real constraints, not simplified ones.
- [Why Planning Systems Fail After Go-Live (And Why Most Teams Don’t Notice Until It’s Too Late)](https://arkieva.com/blog/why-planning-systems-fail-after-go-live-and-why-most-teams-dont-notice-until-its-too-late/) - Planning systems rarely fail at go-live. They fail quietly afterward. Learn the operational signals that reveal whether adoption is actually taking hold.
- [Stop Optimizing for Speed. Start Planning for Reality.](https://arkieva.com/blog/stop-optimizing-for-speed-start-planning-for-reality/) - Faster response isn't better planning. Learn why speed accelerates fragile plans and how Shift Left Planning builds stability into the baseline itself.
- [The Planning System That Optimizes for the Wrong Thing](https://arkieva.com/blog/the-planning-system-that-optimizes-for-the-wrong-thing/) - Supply chain plans fail because optimizers solve the wrong problem. Learn why risk must be a first-class planning variable, not a post-plan dashboard.
- [Notes from Orlando: AI, Risk and the Plan That Holds](https://arkieva.com/blog/notes-from-orlando-ai-risk-and-the-plan-that-holds/) - The AI conversation grew up at Gartner Supply Chain Symposium 2026. Read Arkieva's takeaways on planners, CFOs, and planning for structural volatility.
- [Why Resilience Is an Architecture Decision, Not a Response Strategy](https://arkieva.com/blog/why-resilience-is-an-architecture-decision-not-a-response-strategy/) - Response speed isn't resilience. Learn why reactive supply chain planning falls short and how Shift-Left Planning designs risk into the plan itself.
- [Practitioners Agree on the Problem. The Real Question Is Trust.](https://arkieva.com/blog/practitioners-agree-on-the-problem-the-real-question-is-trust/) - Practitioners agree supply chain plans are fragile. The real question is trust. Explore what planners need before acting on risk-aware recommendations.
- [Shift-Left Risk: A New Operating System for Supply Chain Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/shift-left-risk-a-new-operating-system-for-supply-chain-planning/) - Most planning systems treat risk after the plan is built. Learn how a four-layer Shift-Left Risk architecture embeds risk awareness from the start.
- [The Difference Between Planning for Stability and Planning for Reality](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-planning-for-reality-not-stability/) - Single-number forecasts and fixed lead times plan for stability, not reality. See what changes when supply chain planning carries ranges instead.
- [SAP APO Is Sunsetting. Is SAP IBP Actually the Right Replacement?](https://arkieva.com/blog/sap-apo-to-sap-ibp-migration/) - SAP APO's mainstream maintenance ends in 2027. Before you default to SAP IBP, here's what the migration actually involves, and how to evaluate the real alternative.
- [Shift Left Planning: Building Plans That Hold Up Under Real-World Conditions](https://arkieva.com/blog/shift-left-planning-supply-chain/) - Shift Left Planning helps planners build SAFE supply chain plans: stable, achievable, flexible, error-tolerant. See how AI scales the approach.
- [Port Shutdowns and Other What-If Candidates](https://arkieva.com/blog/port-shutdowns-and-other-what-if-candidates/) - Recently, I was visiting with a prospect in Pennsylvania and they lamented on the effect of the ongoing port shutdowns on the west coast. He went on to say how they have heard of a threat for a shutdown for many years and everyone had become accustomed to it.
- [Planning versus Scheduling versus Execution – Supply Chain Style](https://arkieva.com/blog/planning-versus-scheduling-versus-execution-supply-chain-style/) - Assuming that a business is somewhat limited by the geography of supply and demand network, the planning process will dabble with these questions. As demand and supply conditions change, the answers will change accordingly.
- [Let’s Talk – Demand Planner to Account Executive](https://arkieva.com/blog/lets-talk-demand-planner-to-account-executive/) - There’s a big challenge in translating this vast amount of market intelligence into a smooth and lean supply chain. Almost every demand planner has experienced the situation where unexpected demand disrupts the plan and the account manager is surprised that nobody else saw it coming.
- [Why do Supply Chain Planning Improvement Projects Deteriorate and How to Keep Them Alive](https://arkieva.com/blog/why-do-supply-chain-planning-improvements-deteriorate/) - Supply chain planning improvement involves a series of projects separated by periods of institutionalization. Unfortunately during these periods there are many opportunities to regress to the “old ways of doing things”.
- [Testing versus Checking](https://arkieva.com/blog/testing-versus-checking/) - In the software business there seems to be a lot of confusion about the word testing. The word “testing” is used for what I would call "checking". The origin of this confusion goes back to the first computer programs.
- [Illusion of Capacity and Rabbit in the Hat](https://arkieva.com/blog/illusion-of-capacity-and-rabbit-in-the-hat/) - One value of supply chain modeling is the ability to explicitly model capacity or constrained resources. Which products get what capacity in what amount at what time? How does this impact on-time delivery? Where do I add capacity? These types of questions are custom made for a “little bit of math” and difficult to do in a simple spreadsheet model.
- [Is your Business in Need of Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO)?](https://arkieva.com/blog/is-your-business-in-need-of-multi-echelon-inventory-optimization-meio/) - How should one decide if their business needs Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization? In this blog, I will attempt to answer this question.
- [How Many What-If Scenarios Should be a Part of the Monthly S&OP Process?](https://arkieva.com/blog/how-many-what-if-scenarios-should-be-a-part-of-the-monthly-sop-process/) - Using what-if scenarios is an excellent technique that allows a planner to ask questions on the future. Given a working model that represents a business, a planner can quickly ask the questions that represent the range of possibilities in the foreseeable future which can render the current plan obsolete.
- [Making Good Decisions All the Time, Not Great Decisions Just Some of the Time](https://arkieva.com/blog/making-good-decisions-all-the-time/) - In my experience with several different companies, it is evident that companies make great decisions some of the time. Unfortunately, being successful only some of the time doesn’t cut it. The key to business success is to make good decisions all of the time.
- [Planning versus Scheduling – Helpful Hints](https://arkieva.com/blog/planning-versus-scheduling-helpful-hints/) - Each year I work with new bright-eyed future experts in planning and scheduling as they make the transition from their academic studies to the murky world of applied planning and scheduling. One of the first rules of thumb I suggest is to ensure everyone has the same view of the problem. Is this a planning
- [The Supply Chain of Belgian Beer](https://arkieva.com/blog/the-supply-chain-of-belgian-beer/) - The Supply Chain of Belgian Beer
- [Planning with My Favorite Restaurant App](https://arkieva.com/blog/planning-with-my-favorite-restaurant-app/) - As more and more data becomes available, more and more algorithms are being developed to analyze it. We see this happening in our day-to-day life where apps help us choose where to eat, sleep, dance and repeat.
- [Generate, Test, Next: Computational Principles That Support Important Decision Technologies](https://arkieva.com/blog/generate-test-next/) - Generate,Test,Next: Using high school algebra to illustrate the key computational principle that supports important decision technologies.
- [All Things Belgian : Supply Chain of Belgian Beer Follow Up](https://arkieva.com/blog/all-things-belgium-supply-chain-of-belgian-beer-follow-up/) - A few weeks ago, I talked about the Supply Chain of Belgian Beer (click here to read that) and shared some trivia. Some folks suggested a follow up on frites or french fries.
- [My Network Design Is Not Your Network Design](https://arkieva.com/blog/my-network-design-is-not-your-network-design/) - From my observations, movement of material through a company’s supply chain is increasingly becoming a major portion of delivered costs. Depending on the industry, nearly 5% of sales dollars will be dedicated to warehousing and transportation. With margins under constant pressure, efficient logistics can be the difference between making and losing money on each sale.
- [The Family Tree of MAPE](https://arkieva.com/blog/the-family-tree-of-mape/) - The various forms of MAPE (ergo the family tree of MAPE)
- [Reporting Forecast Accuracy At Sales and Operations Planning Meetings](https://arkieva.com/blog/reporting-forecast-accuracy-at-sales-and-operations-planning-meetings/) - Reporting Forecast Accuracy
- [Eliminating Some Of The Safety Stock Mystery](https://arkieva.com/blog/eliminating-some-of-the-safety-stock-mystery/) - Eliminating some of the Safety Stock Mystery
- [Do You Use Coefficient Of Variation To Determine Forecastability?](https://arkieva.com/blog/do-you-use-coefficient-of-variation-to-determine-forecastability/) - Using Coefficient of Variability as a measure of forecastability.
- [Using What-if Scenarios To Create A Dynamic S&OP Paradigm](https://arkieva.com/blog/using-what-if-scenarios-to-create-a-dynamic-sop-paradigm/) - Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is typically a monthly process but it does not have to be. It can be more dynamic.
- [So You’re The New Guy – Advice For A New Planner](https://arkieva.com/blog/so-youre-the-new-guy-advice-for-a-new-planner/) - Planning is an art. Here is some advice for a new planner.
- [Using Coefficient of Variation as a Guide for Safety Stocks](https://arkieva.com/blog/using-coefficient-of-variation-as-a-guide-for-safety-stocks/) - Using Coefficient of Variation as a Guide for Safety Stocks
- [Sustainability and the Reverse Supply Chain: The Green Eileen Story](https://arkieva.com/blog/sustainability-and-the-reverse-supply-chain-the-green-eileen-story/) - Sustainability and the Reverse Supply Chain
- [Three Simple Analyses To Identify Risky Inventory In Your Supply Chain](https://arkieva.com/blog/are-you-carrying-risky-inventory-three-simple-analyses/) - Three simple analyses to identify risky inventory in your supply chain.
- [A Long Flight, A Lost Bag and Some Observations](https://arkieva.com/blog/a-long-flight-a-lost-bag-and-some-observations/) - Most if not all of us know someone who has lost a bag during their travels. It happened to me recently. I was on a business trip to Taipei, Taiwan and the airline lost my bag on the way out. In this blog post, I will sharing my experience around losing and then being reunited with that bag.
- [How are you dampening the shocks in your supply chain?](https://arkieva.com/blog/how-are-you-dampening-the-shocks-in-your-supply-chain/) - How are you dampening the shocks in your supply chain
- [Congratulations Steve Reichert!](https://arkieva.com/blog/congratulations-steve-reichert/) - Congratulations to Steve Reichert on his career
- [Calculating the Projected ROI on your Supply Chain Planning Project](https://arkieva.com/blog/calculating-the-projected-roi-on-your-supply-chain-planning-project/) - Calculating the Projected ROI on your Supply Chain Planning Project
- [The Balanced Scorecard approach to ROI for your Supply Chain Planning Project](https://arkieva.com/blog/the-balanced-scorecard-approach-to-roi-for-your-supply-chain-planning-project/) - The balanced scorecard approach to ROI
- [Managing Your Supply Chain Career](https://arkieva.com/blog/managing-your-supply-chain-career/) - Managing your Supply Chain Career
- [Lesson from an Aging Jedi Knight – Ask and Re-Ask – What is the purpose of the Model?](https://arkieva.com/blog/lesson-from-an-aging-jedi-knight-ask-and-re-ask-what-is-the-purpose-of-the-model/) - What is the purpose of the model?
- [Supply Chain 2015 Year In Review](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-2015-year-in-review/) - Supply Chain 2015 Year in Review
- [How to drive a successful technology project](https://arkieva.com/blog/how-to-drive-a-successful-technology-project/) - How to drive a successful software technology project and implementation
- [Welcome to Antwerp](https://arkieva.com/blog/welcome-to-antwerp/) - Welcome to Antwerp
- [Welcome to Mangalore!](https://arkieva.com/blog/welcome-to-mangalore/) - Welcome to Mangalore
- [How to define your forecasting hierarchy   ](https://arkieva.com/blog/how-to-define-your-forecasting-hierarchy/) - How to define your forecasting hierarchy
- [Forecasting: What Business wants from Academia](https://arkieva.com/blog/forecasting-academia-versus-business/) - Is there a disconnect between the academia and business world when it comes to forecasting?
- [Central Planning Engines: Lessons from Leibniz](https://arkieva.com/blog/central-planning-engines-leibniz/) - Central Planning Engines: Lessons from Leibniz
- [Supply Chain Planning and an Uncertain Economy](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-planning-and-an-uncertain-economy/) - Supply Chain Planning and an Uncertain Economy
- [Congratulations Renaud Perray](https://arkieva.com/blog/congratulations-renaud-perray/) - Congratulations to Renaud Perray of Cardone Industries
- [Welcome back, Ryan Dodd!](https://arkieva.com/blog/welcome-back-ryan-dodd/) - Welcome back, Ryan Dodd!
- [Customer-Product Segmentation Projects in B2B Environments](https://arkieva.com/blog/customer-product-segmentation-projects-in-b2b-environments/) - Customer-Product Segmentation Projects in B2B Environments
- [Struggling with Multi-Echelon Inventory Adoption](https://arkieva.com/blog/multi-echelon-inventory-adoption/) - Multi-Echelon Inventory Adoption: Why so slow?
- [Balancing Cash, Cost and Service: The Supply Chain Triangle](https://arkieva.com/blog/balancing-cash-cost-service-supply-chain-triangle/) - Balancing Cash, Cost and Service: The Supply Chain Triangle
- [Balanced Supply Chain Careers for a Balanced Supply Chain](https://arkieva.com/blog/balanced-supply-chain-careers-balanced-supply-chain/) - Balanced Supply Chain Careers for a Balanced Supply Chain
- [The Best Practice Frontier in the 3D Supply Chain Triangle](https://arkieva.com/blog/the-best-practice-frontier-in-the-3d-supply-chain-triangle/) - The Best Practice Frontier in the 3D Supply Chain Triangle
- [Advice to Students: The Next CEO Will Be From Supply Chain](https://arkieva.com/blog/next-ceo-will-be-from-supply-chain/) - Advice to Students: The Next CEO Will Be From Supply Chain
- [Financial Benchmarking for Inventory Turns and Working Capital](https://arkieva.com/blog/financial-benchmarking-for-inventory-turns-and-working-capital/) - Financial Benchmarking for Inventory Turns and Working Capital
- [Linking the Supply Chain Triangle to Strategy](https://arkieva.com/blog/linking-supply-chain-triangle-to-strategy/) - Linking the Supply Chain Triangle to the three business Strategies: Product Leaders, Opex Leaders, and Customer Intimacy Leaders
- [Effectiveness equals Efficiency? How to become “world-class" at nothing.](https://arkieva.com/blog/effectiveness-equals-efficiency-become-world-class-nothing/) - Though it sounds like a joke, many executive teams are exactly on this path. In this blog, we’ll define why and how to avoid an infamous future. Effectiveness equals efficiency. The 1-dimensional view of Supply Chain. In her book “Supply Chain Metrics that Matter”, Lora elegantly captures that many companies mistake efficiency for effectiveness. To
- [My Biggest Mistake: Inventory Levels are the Thermometer for the Management of the Company](https://arkieva.com/blog/inventory-thermometer-for-management/) - My Biggest Mistake: Inventory Levels are the Thermometer for the Management of the Company
- [Strategic Benchmarking in the Supply Chain Triangle (Part 1)](https://arkieva.com/blog/strategic-benchmarking-in-the-supply-chain-triangle/) - Strategic Benchmarking in the Supply Chain Triangle
- [Strategic Benchmarking in the Supply Chain Triangle (Part 2)](https://arkieva.com/blog/strategic-benchmarking-in-the-supply-chain-triangle-part-2/) - Strategic Benchmarking in the Supply Chain Triangle (Part 2)
- [Technology’s Impact on the Nature of Work](https://arkieva.com/blog/technologys-impact-on-the-nature-of-work/) - Technology’s Impact on the Nature of Work
- [Will Big Data change the world?](https://arkieva.com/blog/will-big-data-change-world/) - Will Big Data change the world?
- [Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SiOP) - Part One](https://arkieva.com/blog/sales-inventory-operations-planning-siop/) - Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SiOP) Part 1: Segmentation and Product Management
- [Analytics and S&OP: What is Analytics, and how to spot Buzzwords](https://arkieva.com/blog/analytics-sop-getting-handle-moving-target-think-balanced-portfolio/) - Analytics and S&OP: What is Analytics, and how to spot Buzzwords
- [A Critical Insight to Successful Supply Chain Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/critical-insight-successful-supply-chain-planning-ibm-intel-understanding-levels-components-demand-supply-network/) - A Critical Insight to Successful Supply Chain Planning from IBM and Intel Understanding Levels and Components in the Demand Supply Network
- [Customer-Centric Supply Chain Planning: The Difference is in the Details](https://arkieva.com/blog/customer-centric-supply-chain-planning-detail-differentiation/) - Achieving a customer-centric supply chain planning process involves a fully embedded customer focused approach that goes beyond basics. Here's why.
- [2016 Supply Chain Insights Summit: Imagining Supply Chain in 2030 as The Engine of Growth](https://arkieva.com/blog/imagining-supply-chain-2030-engine-growth/) - Looking at the future of supply chain in 2030 as a growth mechanism: A discussion from the supply chain insights global summit.
- [3 Key Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization Challenges and How to Overcome Them](https://arkieva.com/blog/multi-echelon-inventory-optimization-challenges-solutions/) - Top 3 multi-echelon inventory optimization challenges that companies face and how to solve them.
- [Selecting a Best of Breed Supply Chain Solution: How to Win the Debate](https://arkieva.com/blog/best-breed-supply-chain-solution-selection-debate/) - Tips on winning the internal debate when choosing a best of breed supply chain solution.
- [IoT Order Buttons Are Set to Revolutionize Your Supply Chain: Here’s What You Should Know](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-effect-iot-order-buttons/) - How will your supply chain processes be affected by IoT order buttons? Here is what you should know.
- [How to Perform a Supply Chain Management Assessment for 2017](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-management-assessment-2017/) - Is your supply chain ready for 2017? A supply chain management assessment might be exactly what you need to get started.
- [A Guide to Surviving the Thanksgiving from a Supply Chain Perspective [Slideshow]](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-thanksgiving-survival-guide-slideshow/) - Your turkey dinner won't be complete if you don't look at it from a supply chain perspective.
- [The Effect of Currency Demonetization on Statistical Forecasting](https://arkieva.com/blog/demonetization-effect-statistical-forecasting/) - How does currency demonetization affect statistical forecasting?
- [Arkieva Customer Spotlight: AkzoNobel Strengthens Position as the Leading Global Supplier of Coil Coatings](https://arkieva.com/blog/akzonobel-chemicals-industry-customer-spotlight/) - Arkieva client AkzoNobel acquires BASF Global Industrial Coatings to strengthen leadership position in the coil coatings chemical industry.
- [[Simulation Results] How Does a Change in Demand From a One-Time Event Impact Future Forecast?](https://arkieva.com/blog/one-time-demand-change-future-forecasts-simulation/) - Results of a simulation test run to figure out how long a change in demand because of a one-time event affects forecasting.
- [Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog](https://arkieva.com/blog/top-supply-chain-strategy-posts-2016/) - Here's a list of the top supply chain strategy articles from the Supply Chain Link Blog in 2016 that you may have missed.
- [A New Year Resolution for Supply Chain Planners: Stop Firefighting](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-productivity-tips-stop-firefighting/) - 2017 Supply chain productivity and prioritization tips for supply chain planners.
- [Creating a Sourcing and Procurement Process Plan](https://arkieva.com/blog/creating-sourcing-procurement-process-plan/) - What are the key elements of a sourcing and procurement process plan?
- [7 Supply Chain Technology Trends Set to Disrupt Supply Chains in 2017 and Beyond](https://arkieva.com/blog/7-supply-chain-technology-trends-2017/) - 2017 supply chain technology trends that will disrupt supply chains in 2017 and beyond.
- [5 Ways to Optimize Your Logistics & Transportation with Lean](https://arkieva.com/blog/using-lean-in-logisitics-and-transportation-management/) - Here are 5 ways to use lean in logistics and transportation management.
- [Forget the Supply Chain of 2020. Here are 3 Things That Supply Chains Need Today.](https://arkieva.com/blog/forget-the-supply-chain-of-2020-3-things-that-supply-chains-need-today/) - While it is nice to envision the supply chains of 2020, many manufacturing businesses don't have optimized supply chain processes in place today. Here are few tips on getting started.
- [What-if Wednesday: Forecast Simulation – What Happens if You Change The Alpha Parameter in a Forecasting Method?](https://arkieva.com/blog/forecast-simulation-alpha-parameter-forecasting-method-what-if-wednesday/) - What if scenario forecast simulation: what is the effect of changing the alpha parameter in Holt-Winters method?
- [B2B Demand Sensing: 7 Things You Must Know](https://arkieva.com/blog/b2b-demand-sensing-tips/) - What are the key things to know about B2B demand sensing? Here are 7 things you should know about B2B Demand Sensing.
- [Supply Chain Talk: Are Best Practices Always Best?](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-talk-best-scm-practices/) - Are best SCM practices really all that they are hyped to be? What can businesses do to improve their current supply chain processes?
- [Supply Chain Talk: Do Numbers Tell the Full Story?](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-talk-supply-chain-metrics-numbers/) - At first glance, supply chain metrics may seem to tell you a lot about your current supply chain operations. Look again! There might be more to the story.
- [What-if Wednesday: Seasonality Forecast Simulation (Gamma Parameter)](https://arkieva.com/blog/seasonality-forecast-simulation-what-if-wednesday/) - Seasonality forecast simulation: what is the effect of changing the gamma parameter in Holt-Winters forecasting method?
- [Supply Chain Talk: The Secret to Standardization – Imagine Wearing a Standard Shoe Design on Both Feet](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-standardization-tips/) - Supply Chain Standardization: It's not all about cost reduction. Arkieva CEO Harpal Singh discusses the key components to standardizing supply chains.
- [Supply Chain Talk: Integrating Finance and Operations – What You Should Know](https://arkieva.com/blog/integrating-finance-and-operations-supply-chain-talk/) - Integrating finance and operations: how can operations and finance better collaborate to achieve the common goal of profitability?
- [What-if Wednesday: Statistical Forecasting with Damping Factors](https://arkieva.com/blog/statistical-forecasting-damping-factors-what-if-wednesday/) - What-if Wednesday scenario simulation: Statistical forecasting with damping factors.
- [Supply Chain Lessons from Disney: A Supply Chain Rookie Report](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-lessons-disney/) - Supply Chain Lessons from Disney. What if we looked at supply chain management through the lens of Walt Disney?
- [4 Effective Strategies for Creating a Robust Scheduling Process](https://arkieva.com/blog/capacity-scheduling-strategies-supply-chain-talk/) - Supply Chain Talk: Arkieva CEO Harpal Singh discusses four effective strategies for creating a robust capacity scheduling process.
- [8 Common Issues to Avoid When Creating a Customer Segmentation Strategy](https://arkieva.com/blog/customer-segmentation-strategy-issues/) - Thinking about creating a customer segmentation strategy? Here are 8 common pitfalls to avoid.
- [Supply Chain Talk: Why Your Supply Chain Planning Team Isn’t Working](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-planning-team-productivity/) - Here’s why your supply chain planning team isn’t working as well as you would like it to.
- [What-if Wednesday: Multiplicative Forecast Simulation Using Alpha](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-forecasting-method-multiplicative-forecast-simulation-alpha/) - Holt-Winters Demand Forecasting Method: What happens when you change the values of the multiplicative alpha parameter?
- [Supply Chain Talk: 5 Fundamentals for Building a Collaborative Supply Chain](https://arkieva.com/blog/building-collaborative-supply-chain/) - In this week’s Supply Chain Talk, Arkieva CEO, Harpal Singh discusses the key fundamental building blocks for creating a collaborative supply chain.
- [[Webinar] Using Predictive Analytics to Drive Sales and Delight Customers](https://arkieva.com/blog/webinar-using-predictive-analytics-to-drive-sales-and-delight-customers/) - Join the Arkieva predictive analytics webinar. Increase sales, reduce inventory costs, and improve customer service with predictive analytics.
- [Supply Chain Talk: 3 Challenges Supply Chain Executives Cannot Ignore](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-executives-challenges-supply-chain-talk/) - In this week’s, Supply Chain Talk, Arkieva CEO Harpal Singh discusses key challenges that modern-day supply chain executives face.
- [How do you model inventory in planning systems?](https://arkieva.com/blog/inventory-modeling-supply-chain-planning-systems/) - Inventory modeling in supply planning systems: here's what you need to know.
- [When Demand Planning Goes Wrong: Lessons Learned from United Airlines Overbooking Issue](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-planning-goes-wrong-united-airlines-overbooking/) - Demand planning lessons from the recent United Airlines overbooking issue.
- [What-if Wednesday: Forecast Parameter Simulation - Beta Multiplicative Method](https://arkieva.com/blog/statistical-forecasting-method-what-if-scenario-analysis-beta-multiplicative/) - Statistical forecasting method: what if scenario analysis with the Holt-Winters beta multiplicative method.
- [It's Planned - A Supply Chain Planning Poem](https://arkieva.com/blog/its-planned-supply-chain-planning-poem/) - It's Planned - A Supply Chain Planning Poem written from the view of a supply chain planner.
- [Demand Forecasting: The Art and Science That Keeps You Guessing](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-forecasting-art-science/) - Is Demand Forecasting an Art or a Science? Here’s Why You Need to Understand the Art and Science of Demand Forecasting.
- [A 6-Step Guide to Improving Your Statistical Forecast Technique](https://arkieva.com/blog/statistical-forecast-technique/) - Use this easy step by step statistical forecasting technique guide to help you get started with improving your forecasts.
- [Supply Chain Talk: Controlling Working Capital and Inventory - Is There a Pot of Gold at The End of the Rainbow?](https://arkieva.com/blog/working-capital-management-inventory-control/) - How can businesses improve working capital management? In this week’s ‘Supply Chain Talk’, discusses how to identify inventory buffer factors to help control working capital fluctuations.
- [9 Sessions You Can’t Afford to Miss at The 2017 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference](https://arkieva.com/blog/gartner-supply-chain-executive-conference-2017-sessions/) - Here's a list of top must-see sessions at the upcoming 2017 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference. Visit Arkieva at Booth #712.
- [Supply Chain Talk: What Makes a Supply Chain Technology Partnership Work?](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-technology-partner-sct/) - What should companies look for when selecting a supply chain technology partner for the short and long-term?
- [What-if Wednesday: Forecast Parameter Simulation – Gamma Multiplicative Method](https://arkieva.com/blog/forecasting-methods-gamma-multiplicative-parameter/) - In this week's what-if Wednesday post we explore the results a forecast simulation using the multiplicative gamma parameter of the Holt-Winters method.
- [Is Your Supply Chain Disruptive? Here’s What You Are Missing](https://arkieva.com/blog/disruptive-supply-chain-technology/) - Tips from the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference on implementing disruptive supply chain technology and managing organizational change.
- [Supply Chain Talk: How Do You Create a Consistent Data Basis for Planning?](https://arkieva.com/blog/consistent-data-basis-supply-chain-planning/) - In this week’s ‘Supply Chain Talk' discusses the key aspects of creating a consistent data basis for supply chain planning.
- [How to Predict Sales Using Markov Chain](https://arkieva.com/blog/markov-chain-sales-prediction/) - Here's an example of how you can use Markov chain for sales prediction and forecasting.
- [What-if Wednesday: Holt-Winters Multiplicative Forecast Damping Factor Simulation](https://arkieva.com/blog/holt-winters-multiplicative-forecast-damping-factor/) - What happens when you change the damping factor for the Holt-Winters Multiplicative Method?
- [The S&OP Process Improvement Illusion – Are We There Yet?](https://arkieva.com/blog/sop-process-improvement/) - S&OP Process Improvement – here’s the possible missing link.
- [How Does a Demand Forecast of Zero Impact Your Forecast Accuracy?](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-forecast-accuracy-impact-zero/) - Improving demand forecast accuracy: what’s the impact of a zero forecast?
- [Establishing a Proactive Supply Chain Using Early Warning Indicators](https://arkieva.com/blog/proactive-supply-chain-early-warning-indicators/) - How do you establish a proactive supply chain planning process?
- [Key Steps for Measuring, Monitoring, and Improving S&OP Performance](https://arkieva.com/blog/improving-sop-performance/) - In this week’s ‘Supply Chain Talk,’ Arkieva CEO Harpal Singh discusses some of the key steps for measuring, monitoring, and improving S&OP performance.
- [5 Reasons Why the Amazon-Whole Foods Merger Will Reshape the Supply Chain World](https://arkieva.com/blog/amazon-whole-foods-merger-supply-chain/) - The recent news of the Amazon-Whole Foods merger caused retailers like Walmart to lose market shares. What does this merger mean for the supply chain world?
- [Only the Shadow Knows – Identifying the Unobvious with Supply Chain Modeling](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-modeling/) - How can you understand the non-intuitive aspects of supply chain management using supply chain modeling?
- [What-if Wednesday: Seasonal Model Forecasting with Seasonal Methods](https://arkieva.com/blog/seasonal-model-forecasting-what-if-wednesday/) - Seasonal method is a regression method that fits a linear trend along with sine and cosine curves. These sine and cosine portions of the regression can fit any seasonal deviations from the linear trend. Robust seasonal method also fits a trend along with sine and cosine curves, however this method uses linear programming to fit a seasonal series in a way that compared to the regular seasonal method is less likely to be thrown off by noisy values that depart from the trend or seasonality.
- [Top 5 Lessons Learned After a Year in Supply Chain Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/top-lessons-learned-year-in-supply-chain/) - Lessons learned after a year in supply chain planning.
- [Supply Chain Talk: The 10 Rules of Collaborative Supply Chain Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/collaborative-supply-chain-planning-sct/) - Top 10 tips for creating a collaborative supply chain planning process
- [We compared the Accuracy of 4 Different Demand Forecasting Methods; Here’s What We Found.](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-forecasting-methods/) - Over the past few months, we’ve been running simulation tests on different demand forecasting methods: Winter’s additive & multiplicative, seasonal and robust seasonal. Then, we used MAPE to determine the forecast accuracy for each method. Here’s what we found.
- [Look Beyond the Bells and Whistles! What I’ve Learned About Selecting a Business Software from My Gym Memberships.](https://arkieva.com/blog/business-software-selection-what-i-learned-from-gym-membership/) - What are the best practices for selecting a business software? Here are 4 business software selection tips to consider.
- [Walmart is Shifting Variability. Here’s What Suppliers Should Do About It.](https://arkieva.com/blog/market-variability-walmart/) - How does Walmart’s new supplier delivery policy affect suppliers? Here’s a take from Arkieva CEO on how suppliers can respond to market variability.
- [5 Things to Know About Setting Up a Better Supply Chain Performance Measurement System](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-performance-measurement/) - Setting up a supply chain performance measurement system? Here are 5 things to know
- [Optimization Puzzle: Who’s Guilty? Dormouse, March Hare or Mad Hatter?](https://arkieva.com/blog/optimization-puzzle-whos-guilty-dormouse-march-hare-mad-hatter/) - Solving a detective puzzle with an optimization model using Boolean (yes/no) or Binary (0/1) computations.
- [What Role Will Artificial Intelligence Play in Supply Chain Management?](https://arkieva.com/blog/artificial-intelligence-supply-chain/) - While many believe AI is the next step in our industrial revolution, there's some who believe AI must be regulated to ensure safety & profits
- [Who’s to Blame for the “Unwanted Extra Ingredient?” A look at Challenges of Supply Chain Management in the Fast Food Industry](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-management-fast-food-industry/) - Supply chain management in the fast food industry comes its own set of complexity. Here’s a look at the supply chain challenges in the fast food industry.
- [Using Descriptive Analytics to Improve Supply Chain Visibility for Variability, Velocity, Volume, and Variety.](https://arkieva.com/blog/descriptive-analytics-supply-chain/) - Here’s how using descriptive analytics as part of your big data analytics strategy in your supply chain management can help improve visibility for product variability, velocity, volume, and variety.
- [How to Establish Early Warning Supply Chain Metrics](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-metrics/) - Here’s how to establish early warning supply chain metrics that help you prevent supply chain performance disruptions ahead of time.
- [Supply Chain Optimization in Supply Planning: How to Develop a New Way of Thinking](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-optimization-supply-planning-develop-new-way-thinking/) - Supply chain optimization in supply planning can feel counterintuitive. Here’s why you should combat that feeling to create the best plan possible.
- [Can Supply Chain Optimization Lead to a Road Less Traveled?](https://arkieva.com/blog/optimization-lead-to-road-less-traveled/) - Here's how supply chain optimization leads to businesses discovering improved ways of decision making that can lead to an unprecedented growth path.
- [Supply Chain Talk: Is your planning data worth protecting?](https://arkieva.com/blog/protecting-supply-chain-planning-data/) - As you create a collaborative S&OP process, how can you protect your supply chain planning data to ensure that your business data is not vulnerable?
- [Who Should Take Ownership of Finished Product Inventory Management?](https://arkieva.com/blog/finished-product-inventory-management/) - Who owns finished product inventory management in your organization?
- [How do you create a streamlined process for analyzing what-if scenarios?](https://arkieva.com/blog/what-if-analysis-process/) - During the process of forecasting using what-if analysis, the question often arises: how many scenarios should you analyze?
- [3 Reasons why we’re grateful for Internet of Things (IoT) this Thanksgiving](https://arkieva.com/blog/internet-of-things/) - Internet of Things is only limited by its connectivity and nowadays connectivity has no limits.
- [Key Guiding Principles for Getting a Better Handle on Implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Supply Chain Management](https://arkieva.com/blog/implementing-ai-supply-chain-management/) - Artificial Intelligence is on the hot trend list for 2018 and beyond. What are some guiding principles for implementing AI in Supply Chain Management (SCM)?
- [Driscoll's Not Your Average Berry!](https://arkieva.com/blog/driscolls-not-your-average-berry/) - Driscoll's process is aimed at producing plants that are much more resistant to diseases and provide the most flavorful and attractive fruits possible.
- [Implementing an S&OP System? Here’s How to Make Your Data Work for You](https://arkieva.com/blog/sop-implementation/) - S&OP implementation involves aligning your current S&OP process with the right S&OP systems. There is the need to utilize data in an effective way.
- [Don’t be a Supply Chain Innovation Grinch](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-innovation-grinch/) - A holiday story and adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” Every Manufacturer Down in Manufacturingville liked innovation a lot…
- [What is the bullwhip effect and How do you minimize it?](https://arkieva.com/blog/what-is-bullwhip-effect/) - What is the bullwhip effect? A quick look at the definition of the bullwhip effect and how to minimize it for B2B manufacturers.
- [5 Key Supply Chain Efficiency Assessment Areas for 2018](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-efficiency-assessment/) - Thinking of assessing your supply chain efficiency in 2018? Here the five key areas to look when starting with your supply chain efficiency assessment.
- [Improving Data Visibility with Descriptive Statistics: How to visualize the Product-Volume-Variability-Velocity Matrix](https://arkieva.com/blog/improving-data-visibility/) - Using descriptive statistics, you can improve data visibility by creating a snapshot of your product volume, variability, and velocity. Here’s how.
- [6 Ways You Can Improve Forecast Accuracy with Demand Sensing](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-sensing/) - Demand sensing helps us identify the actual customer order trends and helps us improve the near-term forecast.
- [[Webinar] Inventory Planning Methods & Tips for Optimizing Your S&OP Process Today.](https://arkieva.com/blog/inventory-planning-webinar/) - Join the inventory planning webinar to discuss how to use inventory planning to properly calculate and project future inventory taking into consideration capacity constraints.
- [Want to Align Projected & Actual Cost Savings for Supply Chain Improvement Initiatives? Here’s How.](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-improvement-initiatives/) - Here’s the missing link between projected and actual cost savings for supply chain improvement initiatives.
- [Look beyond the Turnover Ratio! Here’s a Simple Way to Create an Effective Inventory Management Process](https://arkieva.com/blog/effective-inventory-management/) - What are the possible pitfalls when using inventory turnover as a measurement for effective inventory management?
- [How to Adjust Your Planning to Meet Changing Sales Patterns](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-sales-pattern/) - How can we improve demand forecast accuracy and keep the right inventory levels? The answer lies in the detailed analysis of your demand sales pattern coupled with proactive adjustments in planning.
- [How Does My Open Order History Impact My Sales Prediction?](https://arkieva.com/blog/sales-prediction/) - An open order is defined as an order placed by the customer which is under process and is yet to be fulfilled by the supplier. For effective analysis, open order data needs to be recorded daily in an ERP system.
- [How to Measure Inventory Effectiveness](https://arkieva.com/blog/measure-inventory-effectiveness/) - Here’s how to measure inventory effectiveness beyond the inventory turnover ratio.
- [How to Track Your Inventory Stock Out Levels Using These Severity Codes & Alerts](https://arkieva.com/blog/inventory-stock-out-levels/) - Want to get a better handle on your stockouts? Track your Inventory stock out levels using these severity codes and alerts.
- [Study Reveals 50% Adoption Rate for Supply Chain Planning Solutions](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-planning-software-adoption-gartner/) - In a recent study, Gartner estimates that 50% of Supply Chain Planning Solutions are not fully utilized. How can users improve supply chain software adoption and analytics for decision making?
- [Can Demand Segmentation Improve Your Statistical Forecast?](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-segmentation-statistical-forecast/) - Demand segmentation & statistical forecasting: How does demand segmentation improve your statistical forecasting?
- [Should I Use Order Lead Time for Demand Segmentation?](https://arkieva.com/blog/order-lead-time-demand-segmentation/) - How to use order lead time demand segmentation analysis to improve your inventory policy setting and create a more proactive supply chain management process.
- [Going Digital? Things to Consider When Creating a Digital Supply Chain Strategy](https://arkieva.com/blog/digital-supply-chain/) - What is a Digital Supply Chain? Here are a few things to know when creating a digital supply chain strategy for your business.
- [Do Returns Impact My Forecast Error Calculation Negatively?](https://arkieva.com/blog/forecast-error-calculation-returns/) - Here’s how to factor returns into your forecast error calculations.
- [An Example of When Optimization Is Helpful in Supply or Central Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-optimization-methods/) - Use this example as a starting point to understand the different optimization methods, and when optimization is helpful in supply or central planning.
- [What is Statistical Forecasting? A Snowfall-based Explanation](https://arkieva.com/blog/statistical-forecasting-definition/) - In simple terms, statistical forecasting implies the use of statistics based on historical data to project what could happen in the future.
- [Tips for Optimizing Your Entire Supply Chain Planning Process](https://arkieva.com/blog/optimizing-supply-chain-planning/) - Optimizing your supply chain involves looking at the entire process, and not just the initial solution. Here’s an example of how.
- [What is a Demand-driven Supply Chain?](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-driven-supply-chain/) - A Demand-driven Supply Chain (DDSC) is defined as a supply chain management method focused on building supply chains in response to demand signals.
- [Phase-In / Phase-Out Planning: Another Descriptive Statistic for managing inventory](https://arkieva.com/blog/phase-in-phase-out-planning/) - Make your obsolete inventory more visible with these simple phase-in phase-out planning techniques. 
- [Which Statistical Forecasting Methods Should I Use?](https://arkieva.com/blog/statistical-forecasting-methods/) - Here are some guidelines on selecting the right statistical forecasting methods for your business.
- [4 Things to Know When Building a Demand-driven Supply Chain Management Process](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-driven-supply-chain-management/) - I defined the demand-driven supply chain by outlining the differences between a traditional supply chain and a demand-driven supply chain (DDSC). In today’s article, I’ll turn my attention to building a demand-driven supply chain.
- [Demand Management Best Practices](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-management-best-practices/) - Is demand management illusively complex? Here's a look at some best practices in demand management and characterization.
- [Using the Power of Maps to Enhance Your Supply Chain Visibility](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-visibility/) - Mapping makes it easier to identify patterns and understand your data in a way that's not readily available using a table or a graph. Here's how you can use different types of maps to enhance your supply chain visibility.
- [ABC Segmentation for Inventory Management](https://arkieva.com/blog/abc-segmentation/) - A look at how you can use product and customer ABC segmentation for Inventory management.
- [How to Build a Collaborative Global Demand Planning Process](https://arkieva.com/blog/global-demand-planning-process/) - How global businesses can build a collaborative demand planning process
- [Effect of Customer Order Lead Time on Safety Stocks](https://arkieva.com/blog/customer-order-lead-time/) - What's the effect of customer order lead time in inventory management and safety stock calculations?
- [A Six-Step Process for Demystifying Your Safety Stock Process](https://arkieva.com/blog/safety-stock-process/) - Use this collaborative six-step process to demystify your safety stock process and a create buy-in.
- [Everything You Need to Know About Demand Forecasting](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-forecasting/) - Demand Forecasting is the process in which the historical sales data is used to develop an estimate of expected forecast of customer demand.
- [[Infographic] 8 Traits of a Highly Successful Demand Planner](https://arkieva.com/blog/successful-demand-planner/) - Here's a quick visual aid on some of the key attributes of a successful demand planner.
- [Outgrowing Excel? Here’s How to Create a Centralized Demand Planning Process](https://arkieva.com/blog/centralized-demand-planning-process/) - Centralized Demand Planning Process directly affects the business financial plan, pricing, capex decisions, customer segmentation and resource allocation. Considering the criticality and implication of this process, Demand Planners and Managers need to continually evaluate their current Demand Planning process and ensure that the Demand Plan generated is holistic, relevant and timely.
- [Creating Detailed Customer Order Allocation Data for Yearly Volume Contracts](https://arkieva.com/blog/customer-order-allocation/) - A guide on how to improve material planning using a more detailed volume allocation of customer orders.
- [Using Demand Planning Statistical Models to Enhance Your Sales Forecasts](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-planning-statistical-models/) - How to use demand planning statistical models to enhance the value of your sales input during the forecasting process. 
- [Why is Demand Forecasting important for effective Supply Chain Management?](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-forecasting-for-supply-chain-management/) - Demand forecasting forms an essential component of the supply chain process. It’s the driver for almost all supply chain related decisions. While demand forecasting is undeniably important, it’s also one of the most difficult aspects of supply chain planning.
- [Demand Forecasting Analytical Methods: Fit Vs. Predict](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-forecasting-analytical-methods/) - How to determine when to use a best-fit analysis and when to use prediction techniques for demand forecasting analysis.
- [Is Community Intelligence the Next AI Wave?](https://arkieva.com/blog/community-intelligence-supply-chain/) - Is Community Intelligence the next AI wave?
- [Portfolio Pruning for Product Managers](https://arkieva.com/blog/portfolio-pruning/) - Use this collaborative six step process to shape up the portfolio.
- [Selecting the Appropriate Forecasting Method](https://arkieva.com/blog/selecting-appropriate-types-forecasting-methods/) - How do you ensure that you are using the appropriate forecasting methods for your business?
- [Thieves in the Temple – Errors in the Planning-Execution System](https://arkieva.com/blog/errors-in-the-planning-execution-system/) - Here’s a quick look at how to identify and fix errors in planning execution systems.
- [Top 10 Demand Planning Metrics You Should Have on Your Dashboard [Infographic]](https://arkieva.com/blog/top-10-demand-planning-metrics/) - Planned and actual sales are very different metrics. Here are 10 demand planning KPIs to help you prevent stocking issues before they happen.
- [Who Should Own the Demand Management Process?](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-management-process-ownership/) - Who should take ownership of the demand management process within the organization? Is it Sales and Marketing?
- [Challenges with Excel When Building a Demand Planning Process](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-planning-excel-challenges/) - Gartner estimates that by 2020, 60% of revenue in supply chain dependent industries will be driven by digital business.
- [Your Data is Only as Good as How You Visualize It](https://arkieva.com/blog/data-visualization-pitfalls-sop/) - Are you avoiding these common data visualization pitfalls during your S&OP meetings?
- [How to Measure Forecast Errors in Intermittent Demand Forecasting](https://arkieva.com/blog/intermittent-demand-forecasting/) - Stop using standard metrics for measuring forecast accuracy for sporadic demand. Use this method instead.
- [How Does a Supply Chain Planning System Aggregate and Disaggregate Data?](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-data-aggregate-and-disaggregate/) - Planners in certain industries such as the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) prefer updating forecasts at an aggregate level but would also sometimes want to lock values at detail level to prevent disaggregation to a specific combination.
- [I created an Out of Stock Alerting Process with Excel. Here’s What Happened.](https://arkieva.com/blog/out-of-stock-alert-excel/) - I experienced first-hand the limitations of automating out of stock alerts using Excel. Here’s a real-life example of the out of stock process that I created.
- [Statistical Modeling VS Machine Learning](https://arkieva.com/blog/statistical-modeling-vs-machine-learning/) - Sometimes statistical prediction is confused with statistical forecasting. Forecasting can be considered a prediction model but not all prediction models can be considered forecast models.
- [Key Supply Chain Digital Transformation Pitfalls to Avoid](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-digital-transformation/) - Supply Chain Digital transformation has the potential to be, for no better words, transformative; when done right, a transformation can enable your business to reap significant, and well-documented, benefits. On the other hand, Supply Chain Digital Transformation if executed poorly cost companies millions, go on for years, fail to deliver expected or any benefits, and ultimately end up costing some CEO and CIO their jobs.
- [Discover Why Arkieva is Named As a Leader in The 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Sales and Operations Planning System of Differentiation](https://arkieva.com/blog/2019-gartner-magic-quadrant-sop-sod/) - Arkieva Named as a Leader in the Third Gartner Magic Quadrant for Sales and Operations Planning System of Differentiation. Discover why.
- [What is a Supply Chain Digital Transformation?](https://arkieva.com/blog/digital-transformation/) - Gartner defines Digital business transformation as “the process of exploiting digital technologies and supporting capabilities to create a robust new digital business model.” To further expand on this definition, a Supply Chain Digital Transformation is the process of utilizing supply chain technologies to create a robust digital business model that enhances existing supply chain processes.
- [How do you create a more productive dashboard with your planning system?](https://arkieva.com/blog/planning-system-dashboard-productivity-tips/) - What’s the difference between creating a dashboard you want and the one you need? Focus and productivity. Here are few planning system dashboard tips to help increase productivity.
- [Forecasting with Returns](https://arkieva.com/blog/forecasting-with-returns/) - Should we combine the positive numbers and the negative numbers as we approach the essential business of forecasting future demand? Let us think this through.
- [10 Ways to Create Supply Chain Risk Buffers for Economic Uncertainties](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-risk-management/) - Use this guide to identify 10 key elements for evaluating your existing supply chain risk management strategies.
- [Effect of Shutdowns (or Other Supply Disruptions) on Demand Variability](https://arkieva.com/blog/effects-demand-variability/) - When trying to forecast demand for the future, it is important to understand the variability in the underlying dataset.
- [Business Forecasting Lessons From Hurricanes](https://arkieva.com/blog/hurricane-forecasting-lessons/) - With each storm, there comes a bevy of forecasts put out by different computer models. These forecasts begin about 10 days out and change as the storm gets closer and closer. This blog tries to extract some learnings from this process of forecasting.
- [Probabilistic Forecasting and Confidence Intervals](https://arkieva.com/blog/probabilistic-forecasting-confidence-intervals/) - Historically, most of the key planning and computational activities (models, time series, machine learning, and other analytics) that support extended supply chain management (SCM) are “deterministic models”.
- [3 Essential Steps for Setting Supply Chain Digital Transformation Goals](https://arkieva.com/blog/digital-transformation-goals-3-essential-steps/) - Building the business case for change is crucial to compel transformation at a leadership and organizational level. Before you start any transformation project it is important to understand the why, what, and how and articulate a clear vision and path of the future state.
- [IOT and Digital Enterprise Move Over – the next wave: Community Intelligence](https://arkieva.com/blog/community-intelligence-the-next-wave/) - Community Intelligence synchronizes the use of technologies in a manner that is focused on closing gaps in critical decision-making processes in the ongoing journey of more intelligent supply chains to improve organizational performance.
- [Supply Chain Planning in the Times of a Trade War](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-planning-during-trade-war/) - US and China have been at the forefront of a tariff battle that’s been going on for close to a year and a half now. Given the economic might of these two nations, the tariffs by both sides have not only affected them but have also had a domino effect on several other countries across continents.
- [Lots of Zeroes? Basic Guidelines to Managing Intermittent Demand – Part 2](https://arkieva.com/blog/managing-intermittent-demand/) - In Part 1 of this blog, we closed with the following question: “OK, intermittent demand creates a challenge, but I still need a demand estimate, what do I do!” Below we will provide an answer, but with a different orientation that begins with the question: “what is the purpose of the demand estimate?”
- [Shutdown Days & Demand Patterns](https://arkieva.com/blog/shutdown-days-demand-patterns/) - Shutdown days are either planned well in advance or inadvertent and unwelcome manufacturing excursion- this is a factory issue, not a demand issue. The answer is simple
- [How Can What-If Scenario Planning Help Plan for Brexit?](https://arkieva.com/blog/what-if-scenario-planning-brexit/) - In my previous blog, I addressed how what-if analysis can help supply chains when faced with uncertainty. This blog is an attempt to delve into some specific what-if scenarios that could arise due to Brexit.
- [Data Science | Analytics Basics: The Difference Between Quantitative and Qualitative Data](https://arkieva.com/blog/difference-between-quantitative-and-qualitative-data/) - In this blog, you will learn some basic guidelines to determine if the data is quantitative or qualitative with a focus on areas in the shadow where it is initially not clear. Second, it acknowledges one often applies quantitative methods of analysis to qualitative data and at times this may provide insight.
- [Optimization and Central Planning: Compass or Advanced Navigation](https://arkieva.com/blog/central-planning-optimization/) - Two ongoing questions are: (1) when an organization migrates from an Excel-based central/supply/master plan is it best to go to a rule-based method or an optimization-based method and (2) is optimization a compass that identifies true north or is it an advanced navigation system. This blog outlines my view and alternative views on each question.
- [What-If Scenario Planning - Part 3](https://arkieva.com/blog/what-if-scenario-planning/) - Picking up from where I left off in my previous blog, I will look at a few more scenarios in both short and long terms in this blog. Even though Brexit is the theme for these scenarios, the underlying principles apply to any situation with uncertainty in supply planning.
- [Safety Stock for Raw Materials - A View from the Trenches and Importance of Community Intelligence](https://arkieva.com/blog/safety-stock-raw-materials/) - A common question is how to best manage safety stock for critical raw materials that are critical to the production of the exit product for a firm’s supply chain, often followed by can we use traditional methods for stock calculations for exit products (often referred to as finished goods).
- [Conditional Probability Made Easy – Heart of Machine Learning](https://arkieva.com/blog/conditional-probability-made-easy/) - Probabilities are persuasive in supply chains and analytic methods – especially in machine learning where conditional probability is a dominant underlying structure that makes or breaks the success of an application. In this blog, we will learn how to take the mystery out of the term ‘conditional probability’.
- [Taking the Mystery Out of the Rapid Growth of COVID-19 and the Purpose of Social Distancing – Some Basics for Octogenarians](https://arkieva.com/blog/rapid-growth-of-covid19-purpose-social-distancing/) - The spread of the COVID19 virus is a major concern of everyone. Typically, two critical questions are being asked: why it seemed to grow so quickly over the last few weeks and what is the impact of social distancing. This blog provides a kitchen table explanation of “rapid growth” and how social distancing might dampen growth.
- [Basics of the Value of S Curves and Market Adoption of a New Product](https://arkieva.com/blog/basics-on-s-curves/) - The S-curve is an indispensable tool for demand planning for new products or technology. Learn the steps to create the right model for your market growth.
- [Lessons From the Operating Curve for the Dual Government COVID-19 Objectives: Reopen the Economy and Eliminate COVID-19](https://arkieva.com/blog/operating-curve-covid19/) - There is plenty of material being written and posted on the challenges, estimating the growth in COVID19 incidences, and thoughts about the economy. The purpose of this is to pull from experiences in the trenches in shifting OPCURVE to provide some guidance on actions to take to help the nation achieve both critical goals.
- [Some COVID-19 Data Analysis Basics – New Events, Cumulative Events, and Logarithms](https://arkieva.com/blog/covid-19-data-analysis/) - We see graphs of COVID-19 events on a regular basis these days. Two common ones are bar charts for daily new events (COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, deaths) and the “sweeping curve” to capture a cumulative number of events. Additionally, log transformations are mentioned. The purpose of this blog is to shed a bit of light on these curves and the role of the log transformation.
- [COVID-19 Data Analysis Basics – Taking the Mystery Out of Smoothing Daily Counts](https://arkieva.com/blog/covid-19-data-analysis-basics/) - We see graphs of COVID-19 events on a regular basis. One of the most common is a bar chart for daily new events (COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, deaths). Recently in presentations, smoothing methods used to overcome limitations is presenting the raw daily data. This blog will take some of the mystery out of smoothing methods.
- [Lessons for COVID-19 and Supply Chain Management Models](https://arkieva.com/blog/lessons-covid-19-scm-models/) - For those that work regularly in supply chain or managing the demand-supply network (DSN) models are commonplace to help with similar questions. This blog will provide some basics about models that all will find helpful. It will address an often-heard criticism that the models are worthless since the data is incomplete (as recently as last week in a Philadelphia COVID-19 briefing).
- [Demand Management’s Partner in Crime – Central Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/central-planning/) - Arguably the two most important core components of managing the supply chain or demand-supply network are demand management (DM) and Central Planning (CP). CP is sometimes referred to as master planning or supply planning. This blog will provide some basics about Central Planning.
- [COVID-19 & SCM – Importance of Operations Management to Overcome the Limitations of Data-Driven](https://arkieva.com/blog/covid-19-scm-data-driven/) - An often-heard theme in supply chain management (SCM) and COVID-19 is “data-driven” – being data-driven is the path to success. For COVID-19 “science-driven” is often said in the same sentence. For SCM demand or customer-driven replaces “science”. This blog will point out a few examples in the COVID-19 challenge demonstrating COVID-19 is an OM challenge.
- [Statistical Forensics - The Danger of Being Data and Not Operations Management Driven](https://arkieva.com/blog/statistical-forensics-operations-management-driven/) - As previously discussed, being only data-driven can be a road to disaster for COVID-19 or supply chain management. To avoid this disaster requires skill sets from operations management (OM). In this blog we demonstrate that the probability a person actually has COVID-19 antibodies depends heavily on other factors besides the “raw data” of the test results.
- [Statistical Forensics: Manipulating Probabilities to Determine the Real Risk From Viruses](https://arkieva.com/blog/statistical-forensics-manipulating-probabilities/) - The risk of viruses is often a topic of conversation in current times. One of the dominant questions at social gatherings is - what is a bigger risk (defined as serious illness) this fall and winter: regular virus (REGVIR) or COVID-19...
- [The Dual Reality of Inventory Management (IM): Stand Alone and Central Planning - Avoiding Data Driven Disasters](https://arkieva.com/blog/inventory-management-reality/) - Inventory management (IM) typically has a dual reality in any organization! Stand Alone Inventory Management (SAIM) is the traditional inventory management that immediately comes to mind which includes tasks such as good inventory data and reporting, safety stock, reorder, and measuring the inventory position against KPI.
- [Inventory Management: Avoiding Data Driven Disasters – Targets and Monitoring](https://arkieva.com/blog/inventory-management-targets-and-monitoring/) - Inventory management (IM) is a critical component of any successful organization where the mechanics of measuring and monitoring inventory involve KPIs, dashboards, and data science. Dashboard and data science have their origins with the emergence of decision support in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
- [Relationship Between MAD and Standard Deviation for a Normally Distributed Random Variable](https://arkieva.com/blog/relationship-between-mad-standard-deviation/) - A colleague and I were talking recently, and the conversation turned to what is the relationship between Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) and the Standard Deviation (STDEV). They specifically mentioned reading somewhere that STDEV (σ) ≈ 1.25*MAD.
- [Machine Learning and Data Science Tools of the Trade: First-Order Difference](https://arkieva.com/blog/machine-learning-tools-of-the-trade/) - There are a number of data analysis “tools of the trade” that have proven effective in exploring data to get it to tell a story. One such method is the first-order difference (FOD). The purpose of this blog is to provide an overview of FOD with respect to profiling demand history.
- [Can You Make the Case For Supply Chain Technology Investment?](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-technology-investment/) - The right technology can provide a solution to maintaining optimal supply chain planning, but how can you justify the investment? 
- [Invest in Supply Chain Management Technology: Efficiency Assessment](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-management-assessment-2020/) - When and how to invest in supply chain management technology is a critical question for all firms that is not a one-time question, but ongoing. Swifcast provides you the opportunity to perform an ROI evaluation for free.
- [Demand Versus Predict Variability – Avoiding a Paint by Numbers Disaster](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-versus-predict-variability/) - In this blog, we will focus on protecting your investment. The example involves demand variability versus prediction variability and its impact on inventory policy and operational efficiencies. It is loosely based on a real situation from the trenches.
- [MAD versus Standard Deviation for a Uniform Distribution](https://arkieva.com/blog/mad-versus-standard-deviation/) - What's the difference between mean absolute deviation and standard deviation for a uniform distribution for product data? Follow these formulas to find out.
- [Insight from Applied Statisticians for Forecasting:  Is It Worth the Effort and the Mirage of Random Variation?](https://arkieva.com/blog/forecasting-effort-and-variation/) - The current mantra that dominates business forecasting conversations is even the slightest improvement in forecast accuracy drives huge improvements in a firm’s performance, dwarfing improvements in other aspects of supply chain management. In this blog, we will illustrate through an example of these potential pitfalls (unanchored, random variation, and narrow metrics) and potential negative impact on a firm.
- [5 Things to Consider When Starting Your Supply Chain Digital Transformation Journey](https://arkieva.com/blog/starting-digital-transformation-journey/) - Digital Transformation is a popular term being used in today’s supply chain world. This can mean different things for your organization based on your company’s maturity. In this blog, you will learn the five key points to consider in a supply chain transformation journey.
- [Data Science Without Modeling Impact is a Path to Disaster - Simulation to Explore the Impact of Group Size on COVID-19 Spread](https://arkieva.com/blog/data-science-without-modeling-impact-path-to-disaster/) - In developing COVID-19 policies and managing supply chains the constant drumbeat is “data-driven decisions” where the new high priests are data scientists. Data by itself is not sufficient, the missing critical success factor is “models” to project the impact of decisions.
- [Demand Planning: Differentiated Forecast Strategy](https://arkieva.com/blog/differentiated-forecast-strategy/) - Right-sizing inventory affects earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) in several ways. Understand why it's both good and bad.
- [National Puzzle Day – Solving Sudoku Puzzle Using Optimization in Arkieva](https://arkieva.com/blog/solving-sudoku-using-optimization/) - I learned this morning from my LinkedIn feed that January 29 is national puzzle day. So, we decided to put out a fun blog to mark the occasion. We have tried to solve Sudoku using a Mixed Integer Program (MIP). This blog is unrelated to Supply Chain although we use the technique used here to solve supply chain problems. Please enjoy!
- [Using ABC Analysis to Determine Off-Balance Inventory](https://arkieva.com/blog/abc-analysis-determine-off-balance-inventory/) - In this blog are some analyses based on the Pareto principle (or as is very commonly referred to as ABC analysis) that one can do in order to determine the alignment of the inventory with the overall needs of the supply chain.
- [Trim Loss Optimization](https://arkieva.com/blog/trim-loss-optimization/) - In this blog, we will explain the basics of trim/loss and further explore the potential disasters from failing to manage the big picture.
- [Time Series Forecasting Basics](https://arkieva.com/blog/time-series-forecasting-basics/) - In this blog we briefly cover some key insights for successful time series forecasting: (a) Profiling the Shape of the Curve is the first stage, and the first step is assessing if the time series is stationary. (b) The forecast method identified must capture the shape and be able to project the shape across time. (c) There are limits in historical and no amount of “fancy math” can overcome them.
- [Supply Chain – Finance Connection: A Supply Chain Improvement Case Study](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-finance-connection-case-study/) - In this blog, we will demonstrate the link between Finance and Supply Chain and how this understanding can help define supply chain improvements by understanding elements of the Balance Sheet and Income Statement.
- [How to Combine Diverse Supply Chain Metrics](https://arkieva.com/blog/combine-diverse-supply-chain-metrics/) - It is quite common for a supply chain or business leader to ask for a summary version of a performance metric. They want it neatly summarized at the global level or at the product family level. And sometimes they want multiple metrics combined to give them a composite number. How to combine very different metrics/KPIs towards a composite score is a question that comes up quite often in my conversations with customers.
- [Tools of the Trade: How to Compare / Combine Diverse Time Series – “Normalizing”](https://arkieva.com/blog/compare-combine-diverse-time-series-normalizing/) - A reoccurring challenge in comparing and combining diverse time series in demand forecasting is the “scale” – as it is in combining metrics. Rescaling is a powerful but simple method to help with this issue enabling demand planners to focus on similarities of shape. This blog provides an example of one method called normalization.
- [Target Inventory and Central Planning Engines (Models) – Avoiding the Runaway Train](https://arkieva.com/blog/target-inventory-central-planning-engines/) - Often inventory is considered the simplest component of supply chain management that can successfully be managed separately. The purpose of this blog is to provide some observations to avoid the runaway train. We will first review the basics of CPE and then address the use of target inventory (specifically ending finished goods inventory EFGI) in CPEs.
- [Data to Decisions. Faster.](https://arkieva.com/blog/data-to-decisions-faster/) - Key Point: Arm your supply chain planners with the right software tools so they can turn your data into better business decisions.
- [Using Coefficient of Variation to Drive Safety Stock Related Decisions](https://arkieva.com/blog/coefficient-of-variation-safety-stock-decisions/) - In a previous blog post, we discussed how a high or low value of Coefficient of Variation (CV) impacts the first or second term of safety stock. Today we decided to put this to the test using real customer data - here we will discuss our findings.
- [Effect of Lockdowns on Essential Goods Value Chain](https://arkieva.com/blog/lockdowns-effects-essential-goods-supply-chain/) - These interesting times that we are currently living through have thrown open a lot of challenges. Organizations and decision-makers must be agile and innovative to overcome the challenges that COVID-19 has thrown at us. In India, we had 2 lockdown periods in the last 15 months. Being a supply chain student, I try to watch and analyze day-to-day situations with a lot of interest and I see one area that needs improvement when lockdowns are implemented.
- [Sustainability in Supply Chain Planning: In Practice](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-planning-sustainability-in-practice/) - Integrating energy management in supply chain planning supports low costs and sustainability. Explore a model to optimize energy, production and distribution.
- [Data Science Tools of the Trade: Rolling Rounding to Handle Those Pesky Decimals](https://arkieva.com/blog/data-science-tools-of-the-trade-rounding-decimals/) - In many areas of supply chain management, analytic methods generate estimates with “pesky decimals”. The traditional method to eliminate the decimals is rounding. In this blog, we demonstrate the importance of this method and how to calculate these improved integer estimates.
- [An Approach to Setting Forecast Accuracy Targets](https://arkieva.com/blog/setting-forecast-accuracy-targets/) - Learn the best approach to setting forecast accuracy targets and how to set expectations for your management team.
- [The Relationship Between Forecast Accuracy and Safety Stocks](https://arkieva.com/blog/forecast-accuracy-safety-stocks/) - This blog discusses the relationship between forecast accuracy and safety stocks and how to compare forecast error to safety stock.
- [RCCP Versus MPS: How Are They Connected? Elixirs and the Wrong Question](https://arkieva.com/blog/rccp-versus-mps-elixirs-the-wrong-question/) - A reasonable question supply chain folks often ask themselves is ‘What is the relationship between Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) and Master Production Scheduling (MPS)?’ However, this is the wrong question to ask oneself. This blog will address the transition from AS to central planning as best practices and demonstrate that with a firm’s due diligence they can make the transition successfully. This is critical for what-ifs and effective use of optimization.
- [Automated Forecasting](https://arkieva.com/blog/automated-forecasting/) - A successful demand planning process accurately forecasts demand and revenue streams, and subsequently drives the next steps in the S&OP process which are Inventory, Supply Planning, and Optimization. Therefore, it is a crucial step in an organization's S&OP process.
- [How to Choose the Right Demand Variance Method to Calculate Safety Stock](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-variance-method-calculate-safety-stock/) - In today’s blog, we will share some examples to help Inventory Planners explore different methods available to calculate Demand Variance and decide which method is best suited for their products and businesses.
- [Pyramid Forecasting Process](https://arkieva.com/blog/pyramid-forecasting-process/) - The objective of using the pyramid forecast process is to use the less detailed portions of the pyramid to improve the base level forecast of the pyramid.
- [How “Forecastable” is Your Data? It's Complex Anyway You Look at It](https://arkieva.com/blog/data-and-forecasts-do-not-need-to-be-complex/) - You must handle the complexity in SCM – following the IBM adage – complexity exists whether you ignore it or not, best not to ignore it.
- [Subscription-based Supply Chain Systems](https://arkieva.com/blog/subscription-based-supply-chain-systems/) - Subscribe and save makes planning easier. Consistent demand means less fluctuation in order volume, which makes forecasting, inventory management and scheduling more predictable.
- [4 Barriers to Capturing True Demand](https://arkieva.com/blog/4-barriers-to-capturing-true-demand/) - To forecast demand, one should get as true a picture as possible. This blog covers 4 common barriers to capturing true demand.
- [Managing Distribution in Circular Supply Chains](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-circularity/) - Circularity, in the form of re-use, is not really new as a business model. Look at Goodwill, Habitat For Humanity’s Re-Store, and countless local consignment and thrift stores. eBay, Etsy, and Facebook Marketplace provide an online forum to convert one person’s trash to someone else’s treasure. A quick trip to the post office and the deal is sealed. Waste averted.
- [What To Expect in 2022: Arkieva’s Take on 2022 Supply Chain Trends](https://arkieva.com/blog/2022-supply-chain-trends/) - With the new year comes “prediction season”. It’s human nature to look ahead and anticipate what may be. We all look back to look forward.
- [Some Good Supply Chain News, For a Change](https://arkieva.com/blog/good-supply-chain-news/) - Despite all the bad news regarding container ships stacked up at ports, pandemic related labor challenges, and chip shortages, there have been a few bright spots regarding the supply chain. The general ideas around vision, technology, and sustainability apply to all of us.
- [Managing Supply Chain Transformation Beyond IT](https://arkieva.com/blog/managing-supply-chain-transformation-beyond-it/) - Senior leadership engagement, business process analysis, and proper communication ensure a successful supply chain transformation.
- [10 Ways to Buffer Supply Chain Risk](https://arkieva.com/blog/10-ways-to-buffer-supply-chain-risk/) - In today’s globalized economy, no one can remain insulated from supply chain risk - one hiccup can cause myriad issues downstream.
- [Survey Says: Modernize Your Supply Chain IT](https://arkieva.com/blog/modernize-your-supply-chain/) - It seems we are always reinventing ourselves to meet the latest challenges. Often the solution comes down to managing people, process, and technology.
- [5 Key Supply Chain Assessment Benchmarks](https://arkieva.com/blog/5-key-supply-chain-assessment-benchmarks/) - If you're looking to improve your supply chain management systems, these quick tips can help you get started.
- [What is the ‘Secret Sauce’ to Improve Demand Planning?](https://arkieva.com/blog/secret-sauce-demand-planning/) - Successful demand planning requires a stable and sustainable planning process that is continuously reviewed and improved.
- [Tools of the Trade: Production Activity Alternative Views - "Starts" and "Outs"](https://arkieva.com/blog/tools-of-the-trade-production-activity-alternative-views-starts-and-outs/) - Since the beginning of time, alternate but related views of production have existed: historically called “starts” and “outs”.
- [5 Steps to a Global Collaborative Demand Planning Process](https://arkieva.com/blog/5-steps-to-a-global-collaborative-demand-planning-process/) - Collaboration is the key to a proper demand plan. Here are 5 steps to attain a successful and accurate supply chain forecast.
- [The ROI of Inventory Reduction](https://arkieva.com/blog/the-roi-of-inventory-reduction/) - A lot of projects claim to deliver ROI through inventory and cost reduction. This should save money. But how do you prove the ROI?
- [Seen and Heard at the 2022 Gartner Supply Chain Symposium | Xpo](https://arkieva.com/blog/seen-heard-gartner-symposium/) - The Gartner Supply Chain Symposium 2022 was filled with insights, actionable strategies, trends and more. Here are a few highlights.
- [Which Came First: Supply Chain Woes or the Recession?](https://arkieva.com/blog/which-came-first-supply-chain-woes-or-the-recession/) - Supply chain woes are here and the next recession is at our doorsteps. This blog discusses what we can do to rise to the latest challenge.
- [Rules-based Approach to Supply Planning: Matching Assets with Demand](https://arkieva.com/blog/rules-based-approach-to-supply-planning/) - This blog shows how to create supply plans based on a sequence of rules that makes the decision-making process fast, effective, and intuitive.
- [Demand Patterns Inside a Period](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-patterns-inside-a-period/) - Demand forecasting is often done in planning buckets such as months or weeks. But what about the pattern of demand inside a period?
- [How to Have a Serious Conversation About Inventory](https://arkieva.com/blog/serious-conversation-inventory/) - This blog discusses how to build a cohesive team to manage inventory, supply and demand planning, and links to an inventory planning webinar.
- [Lessons Learned from a Complex Transformation Project](https://arkieva.com/blog/lessons-learned-from-a-complex-transformation-project/) - Before you begin a supply chain transformation project, consider the reasons why it is needed and the potential issues/challenges.
- [How to Mitigate the Bullwhip Effect in Today's Market](https://arkieva.com/blog/how-to-mitigate-the-bullwhip-effect-in-todays-market/) - The most common causes of the bullwhip effect include inaccurate forecasting, order batching and over-discounting. Here's how to contain it.
- [Is Warehousing Imperative to Reduce Logistics Costs?](https://arkieva.com/blog/is-warehousing-imperative-to-reduce-logistics-costs/) - Logistics costs account for a large portion of final costs. This blog explores whether warehousing can help optimize the logistics process.
- [Where Are You Investing in 2023?](https://arkieva.com/blog/where-are-you-investing-in-2023/) - Investments typically fall into the familiar categories of people, process, and technology. So, what does this prioritization mean?
- [What Does Your Pantry Have in Common with Inventory Management?](https://arkieva.com/blog/what-does-your-pantry-have-in-common-with-inventory-management/) - Unlike a fine wine, inventory does not get better with age. Learn more about the importance of balancing inventory levels with related costs.
- [Is It Time to Renovate Your Supply Chain Planning Software?](https://arkieva.com/blog/is-it-time-to-renovate-your-supply-chain-planning-software/) - This blog discusses the value of current supply chain planning software and the dangers of relying on an outdated system.
- [5 Questions About Safety Stock Calculations](https://arkieva.com/blog/5-questions-about-safety-stock-calculations/) - There are various approaches to safety stock calculations. This blog previews a free webinar that sheds light on the pros and cons of each.
- [A Journey Through Safety Stocks, Part 1](https://arkieva.com/blog/a-journey-through-safety-stocks-part-1/) - Inventory planners have a difficult task balancing customer demand with inventory levels. This blog is the first in a series discussing safety stock.
- [Battle of the S&OP Methods](https://arkieva.com/blog/battle-of-the-sop-methods/) - This blog discusses the pros and cons of the three most common S&OP methods: top-down, bottom-up and countercurrent planning.
- [What Do Thanksgiving and the Supply Chain Have in Common?](https://arkieva.com/blog/what-do-thanksgiving-and-the-supply-chain-have-in-common/) - From demand and safety stock to production capacity and sustainability, what do the supply chain and Thanksgiving have in common?
- [A Journey Through Safety Stocks, Part 2](https://arkieva.com/blog/a-journey-through-safety-stocks-part-2/) - This blog discusses the importance of adjusting and refining safety stock approaches to balance inventory.
- [A Journey Through Safety Stocks, Part 3](https://arkieva.com/blog/a-journey-through-safety-stocks-part-3/) - This blog continues the discussion of Jane's safety stock journey, where we'll cover what to do when you're unsatisfied with your results.
- [A Journey Through Safety Stocks, Part 4](https://arkieva.com/blog/a-journey-through-safety-stocks-part-4/) - This blog covers the importance of lead and cycle times when calculating safety stock and other things to consider.
- [Our Top Blogs of 2022](https://arkieva.com/blog/our-top-blogs-of-2022/) - Each year, visitors read our supply chain blog to take advantage of all that we have shared. This is the round up of our top posts.
- [Surviving the Impact of Holiday Returns on Demand Forecasting](https://arkieva.com/blog/surviving-the-impact-of-holiday-returns-on-demand-forecasting/) - Businesses can almost guarantee a jump in returns following the holidays. How can you account for returns in your demand forecasting?
- [The Difference Between Knowing and Acting](https://arkieva.com/blog/the-difference-between-knowing-and-acting/) - New tools can use AI to respond to queries, but can they really replace the value in the difference between knowing and acting?
- [Effect of Change in Replenishment Frequency](https://arkieva.com/blog/replenishment-frequency/) - This blog breaks down the impact of changing replenishment frequency on inventory and service levels from a mathematical perspective.
- [Why Are Our Supply Chains Broken?](https://arkieva.com/blog/why-are-our-supply-chains-broken/) - Ever worsening weather, a global pandemic and labor shortages have generated a perfect storm that’s pushed global supply chains to their breaking point.
- [A Journey Through Safety Stocks, Part 5](https://arkieva.com/blog/a-journey-through-safety-stocks-part-5/) - This blog dives deeper into the connection between safety stock and service levels, continuing our series on safety stock.
- [The IBP Implementation Journey](https://arkieva.com/blog/the-ibp-implementation-journey/) - Implementing IBP is a difficult journey. This blog previews a free webinar that discusses various challenges associated with implementing IBP
- [Why Now is the Time for Arkieva+](https://arkieva.com/blog/why-now-is-the-time-for-arkievaplus/) - Digital transformation is a prime area of focus. Arkieva+ is our answer for smaller businesses looking to implement a SaaS solution.
- [Sales & Operations Planning vs Integrated Business Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/sop-vs-ibp/) - Are you ready to move beyond S&OP to integrated business planning? This blog covers key considerations for implementing IBP.
- [Asking "What if?"](https://arkieva.com/blog/asking-what-if/) - Now is the time to ask “what if” we enhanced our forecasting with technology that can work with or replace Excel?
- [A Journey Through Safety Stocks, Part 6](https://arkieva.com/blog/a-journey-through-safety-stocks-part-6/) - This blog continues Jane and Kate's discussion on safety stocks through the lens of histograms.
- [A Journey Through Safety Stocks, Part 7](https://arkieva.com/blog/a-journey-through-safety-stocks-part-7/) - This blog continues the discussion with Kate and Jane, and covers variance and cycle service level as they pertain to safety stock.
- [What Stops Businesses from Adopting Planning Software?](https://arkieva.com/blog/what-stops-businesses-from-adopting-planning-software/) - Learn common factors that hold companies back from implementing supply chain planning software - according to ChatGPT and our experts.
- [Is Your Supply Chain Effective, Efficient or Neither?](https://arkieva.com/blog/is-your-supply-chain-effective-efficient-or-neither/) - This blog previews our webinar on effective supply chains and the difference between efficiency and effectiveness.
- [Are You Caught in the Middle?](https://arkieva.com/blog/are-you-caught-in-the-middle/) - Do you fall into the gray area of companies who require advanced planning capabilities but lack the resources? Arkieva+ is for you.
- [SOS(C): Shorten Our Supply Chains](https://arkieva.com/blog/sosc-shorten-our-supply-chains/) - What is a shorter supply chain and what are the benefits of shortening a lengthy supply chain? This blog discusses this and more.
- [A Journey Through Safety Stocks, Part 8](https://arkieva.com/blog/a-journey-through-safety-stocks-part-8/) - This blog continues the discussion between Kate and Jane as it relates to the unit of measure as the input demand.
- [How Can A $150MM Manufacturer Compete with Larger Players?](https://arkieva.com/blog/how-can-a-150mm-manufacturer-compete-with-larger-players/) - Supply chain disruptions can have a higher impact on smaller manufacturers. How can you keep up with Fortune 1000 companies?
- [Why Planning Forecasts Are Wrong and What You Can Do About It](https://arkieva.com/blog/why-planning-forecasts-are-wrong-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/) - Predicting the future is difficult, yet forecasting remains a critical tool for businesses to plan and prepare for what lies ahead.
- [The State of Just-in-time Supply Chains](https://arkieva.com/blog/the-state-of-just-in-time-supply-chains/) - Prior to Covid-19, a lean, just-in-time global supply chain model was ideal. Now you may be wondering - how did the supply chain model fare?
- [How Does Arkieva Support Client Success?](https://arkieva.com/blog/how-does-arkieva-support-client-success/) - This blog features a few of our client success stories. Read more to see how Arkieva helps clients achieve their business objectives.
- [Understand the Factors Behind Inventory Accumulation by Optimization Models with No Demand](https://arkieva.com/blog/understand-the-factors-behind-inventory-accumulation-by-optimization-models-with-no-demand/) - Supply chain optimization models sometimes make decisions to produce items with no demand. This blog discusses these scenarios.
- [Boosting Efficiency: The Value of Scheduling Software](https://arkieva.com/blog/boosting-efficiency-the-value-of-scheduling-software/) - Scheduling software is similar to GPS, organizing the movement of items, marking process steps, ensuring expected locations, and optimizing the route.
- [A Journey Through Safety Stocks, Part 9](https://arkieva.com/blog/a-journey-through-safety-stocks-part-9/) - This blog continues the safety stock discussion between Kate and Jane as they evaluate historical sales and lead time data.
- [Arkieva Helps Fight Childhood Cancer](https://arkieva.com/blog/arkieva-helps-fight-childhood-cancer/) - Arkieva is proud to sponsor Jeff Ondria on his 4th annual Great Cycle Challenge and support efforts to raise money to fight childhood cancer.
- [Planning Ahead: 2024 Business Investment and the ROI of Supply Chain Planning Software](https://arkieva.com/blog/planning-ahead-2024-supply-chain-planning-software/) - As 2023 comes to an end, it's a good time to plan your business investment strategy for 2024, and that should include supply chain planning software.
- [The Consequences of Complacency](https://arkieva.com/blog/the-consequences-of-complacency/) - Complacency can quickly make supply chain planning software obsolete. We lose when we "wait and see". Now is the time for investment and improvement.
- [Navigating the Pitfalls of Expedited Shipping](https://arkieva.com/blog/navigating-the-pitfalls-of-expedited-shipping/) - In the dynamic supply chain management landscape, one of the most challenging aspects is dealing with the differences between our forecasts and reality.
- [Seen and Heard at CSCMP EDGE Supply Chain Conference 2023](https://arkieva.com/blog/seen-and-heard-2023-cscmp-edge-supply-chain-conference/) - Key observations from EDGE for Supply Chain, including the impact of generative AI and the gap in skills that is an outcome of this trend.
- [Using What-if Scenario Planning to Balance Supply and Demand](https://arkieva.com/blog/using-what-if-scenario-planning-to-balance-supply-and-demand/) - Scenario planning provides a framework and set of tools to help planners pinpoint risks and opportunities, offer recommendations and more.
- [How to Calculate Safety Stock and Evaluate Different Methods](https://arkieva.com/blog/how-to-calculate-safety-stock-and-evaluate-different-methods/) - Uncertainty and volatility have been around for decades. There are several methods of leveraging safety stock to mitigate risk.
- [8 Things that Should be on Every Demand Planning Wish List](https://arkieva.com/blog/8-things-that-should-be-on-every-demand-planning-wish-list/) - Effective demand planning positively impacts everything from production to inventory, distribution to marketing—and all steps in between.
- [Top Reads of 2023: Unveiling Our Most Popular Blog Posts](https://arkieva.com/blog/top-reads-of-2023-unveiling-our-most-popular-blog-posts/) - From insightful industry analyses to practical how-to guides, our blog demonstrates the diverse range of supply chain-related topics we cover.
- [A Journey Through Safety Stocks, Part 10](https://arkieva.com/blog/a-journey-through-safety-stocks-part-10/) - This blog continues the journey of Kate and Jane as they navigate the concepts of safety stocks at Jane's company.
- [An Artificial Intelligence-based Solution to Sudoku](https://arkieva.com/blog/an-artificial-intelligence-based-solution-to-sudoku/) - This blog celebrates National Puzzle Day by detailing how to solve a Sudoku puzzle using artificial intelligence.
- [What is S&OP?](https://arkieva.com/blog/what-is-sop/) - What is S&OP? In a world where you can easily get overwhelmed by the number of supply-chain related acronyms, S&OP is one you don't want to overlook.
- [A Journey Through Safety Stock, Part 11](https://arkieva.com/blog/a-journey-through-safety-stock-part-11/) - This blog is the latest part of the story of Kate and Jane as they navigate the concepts of safety stock at Jane's company and focuses on variance terms.
- [Unpacking S&P Global’s 2024 Supply Chain Industry Outlook](https://arkieva.com/blog/unpacking-sp-global-2024-supply-chain-industry-outlook/) - Mitigate supply chain risks. Review our analysis of S&P Global’s 2024 Outlook to assess the challenges and importance of building resilient supply chains.
- [The Latest R in Sustainability: Reshoring](https://arkieva.com/blog/the-latest-r-in-sustainability-reshoring/) - As awareness of climate change and globalization grow, the list of Rs in sustainability is also growing. This blog explores the latest trend: reshoring.
- [Unwrapped: What You’ll Take Away from the 2024 Gartner Supply Chain Symposium](https://arkieva.com/blog/2024-gartner-supply-chain-symposium/) - Make the most of your time at the 2024 Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo in Orlando. Preview the can’t-miss speakers and supply chain planning topics.
- [Arkieva Named Challenger in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Planning Solutions](https://arkieva.com/blog/2024-gartner-magic-quadrant-supply-chain-planning/) - Arkieva recognized as Challenger in 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning, empowering businesses with cutting-edge solutions.
- [Arkieva Named Challenger in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Planning Solutions](https://arkieva.com/blog/2024-gartner-magic-quadrant-supply-chain-planning-2/) - Arkieva recognized as Challenger in 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning, empowering businesses with cutting-edge solutions.
- [Avoiding the Assumption of Normal Distribution in Safety Stock Calculations](https://arkieva.com/blog/safety-stock-calculation-distribution-assumptions-webinar/) - Explore alternatives beyond the norm in the world of safety stock calculations. Join our webinar to break free from distribution assumptions.
- [What the Economic Outlook Means for Demand Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/what-the-economic-outlook-means-for-demand-planning/) - Forecast as accurately as possible, even in uncertain economic conditions. Review demand planning strategies that can help you navigate hazy market conditions.
- [4 Common Production Scheduling Problems that the Right Software Solves](https://arkieva.com/blog/production-scheduling-problems-the-right-software-solves/) - Minimize changeover time and maximize utilization and production efficiency. Avoid common production planning and scheduling software missteps.
- [Essential Concepts for Successful Responsiveness: Planning versus Scheduling Basics](https://arkieva.com/blog/essential-concepts-planning-vs-scheduling-basics/) - Understanding the difference between planning and scheduling basics will help achieve responsiveness which is increasingly important in the ever-changing world.
- [Building the Business Case for Supply Chain Planning Software Implementation](https://arkieva.com/blog/building-business-case-supply-chain-planning-software/) - Calculating expected benefits and demonstrating ROI for supply chain planning software implementations are critical. Attend our webinar and learn how.
- [Maximizing ROI Value from Your Supply Chain Software Investment](https://arkieva.com/blog/maximize-roi-value-supply-chain-software-investment/) - Learn how to maximize ROI from your supply chain software with best practices, advanced features, and continuous optimization strategies.
- [Maximize Profit With Supply Chain Optimization Software](https://arkieva.com/blog/maximizing-profit-with-existing-resources/) - Squeeze the greatest profit possible from the resources your business already has available. Supply chain optimization software identifies the most valuable demand to meet.
- [The Balancing Act: Lot Size vs. Production Constraints](https://arkieva.com/blog/balancing-act-lot-size-production-constraints-supply-planning/) - Understanding and balancing lot size vs production constraints is a common juggling act in supply planning for manufacturers. Learn how to balance them.
- [Demand Planning Best Practices: Practical Advice for Harmonizing Demand and Supply](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-planning-best-practices/) - Proactively sense and respond to changing customer demands with effective demand planning. These best practices will help set your business on the right path.
- [5 Supply Chain Planning Mistakes That Will Haunt You](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-mistakes-that-will-haunt-you/) - Curbing bad habits or errors early is essential to effective supply chain management. Look at supply chain planning mistakes that haunt you if not corrected.
- [KPIs: More Than Metrics - They’re Tools for Change](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-kpis-metrics-to-insights/) - Learn how to design effective supply chain KPIs that drive organization change, align teams, and improve performance with actionable insights.
- [Top Blogs of 2024 (Plus Some Supply Chain Analytics Blasts from the Past)](https://arkieva.com/blog/top-blogs-of-2024/) - From supply chain analytics to demand planning best practices and beyond. Here’s a roundup of 2024’s most popular blogs, including a few blasts from the past.
- [How to Select and Implement Supply Chain Planning Software for Long-Term Success](https://arkieva.com/blog/how-to-select-implement-supply-chain-planning-software/) - Struggling to choose and implement the right supply chain planning software? Learn key strategies to streamline selection, ensure smooth adoption and drive ROI.
- [Supply Chain Scheduling Best Practices: Developing the Tools to Execute your Supply Chain Plan](https://arkieva.com/blog/scheduling-best-practices/) - If supply, inventory and demand planning are building materials, scheduling is the tool that helps you assemble them. Learn best practices of effective production scheduling.
- [How to Successfully Implement Supply Chain Planning Software](https://arkieva.com/blog/successfully-implement-supply-chain-planning-solutions/) - Learn how to implement supply chain planning solutions effectively with expert insights and practical strategies to avoid delays and maximize ROI.
- [Tariffs & Supply Chain Management: Complexity, Robustness and Responsiveness](https://arkieva.com/blog/tariffs-supply-chain-management-software-complexity/) - Leverage supply chain management software and central planning models to survive against tariffs and market volatility.
- [Evaluating Supply Chain Planning Solutions: Key Takeaways from the 2024 Gartner Critical Capabilities Report](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-planning-solutions-gartner-critical-capabilities-report/) - See how Arkieva performed amongst 20 vendors in the 2024 Gartner Critical Capabilities Report for supply chain planning solutions use cases.
- [Beyond the Grid: What the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Means for Supply Chain Planners](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-planning-solution-magic-quadrant-2025/) - Explore key takeaways from the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ and learn how to evaluate supply chain planning solutions for today’s complex business needs.
- [Inventory Planning Best Practices: Finding the Right Formula for Stock Optimization](https://arkieva.com/blog/inventory-planning-best-practices/) - Solve the inventory planning equation and know where, when, and how much to stock. Discover best practices that help you anticipate all the variables needed.
- [Reflections From the 2025 Gartner Supply Chain Symposium in Barcelona](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-resilience-2025-gartner-symposium-barcelona/) - Discover how top companies are building supply chain resilience in 2025. Key takeaways from the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona on AI and adaptability.
- [Applying AI in Supply Chain Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/artificial-intelligence-for-supply-chain-planning/) - Explore the best artificial intelligence for supply chain planning applications. We'll discuss what works, what doesn't and why it matters.
- [From Theory to Practice: How AI Improves Supply Chain Planning Workflows](https://arkieva.com/blog/how-ai-in-supply-chain-planning-improves-workflows/) - Explore how AI in supply chain planning workflows reduces manual work, flags risks early and supports smarter decisions for modern planning teams.
- [Key Innovations Shaping the Future of Supply Chain Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/key-innovations-future-of-supply-chain-planning/) - Explore 4 innovations reshaping the future of supply chain planning. From AI to automation, all designed to improve agility, visibility and real-time execution.
- [Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) – Out of the Fog](https://arkieva.com/blog/ai-in-supply-chain-management-arkieva-perspective/) - Learn how we apply AI in supply chain planning through demand forecasting, MILP-based supply planning and risk mitigation across complex supply chain networks.
- [Supply Chain Sustainability Best Practices: Building Resilience Through Responsible Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/sustainable-supply-chain-planning-best-practices/) - Learn how sustainable supply chain planning can reduce costs, cut emissions and build long-term resilience. Discover business-focused sustainability strategies.
- [Financial Planning Best Practices for Supply Chain Management: Closing the Gap Between Finance and Operations](https://arkieva.com/blog/financial-planning-best-practices/) - Aligning your financial and operational forecasts is key to realistic budgets and production plans. Review best practices of effective financial supply chain management.
- [Supply Planning Best Practices: Striking the Right Balance Between Assets and Demand](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-planning-best-practices/) - Striking a balance between assets and demand is a critical task for manufacturing operations. Discover the best practices of effective supply planning.
- [Customer-Driven Supply Chain Planning: How Leading Companies are Thriving in 2025](https://arkieva.com/blog/customer-centric-supply-chain-planning-trends-2025/) - See how customer-centric supply chain planning helps leading companies thrive. Learn key trends and how to evaluate SCP solutions in 2025.
- [8 Inventory Management Tips You Should Know](https://arkieva.com/blog/inventory-management-tips/) - Sudden shifts in demand can make any inventory manager quiver. Don’t just respond — get proactive with these 8 inventory management tips.
- [Rethinking AI ROI at the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit](https://arkieva.com/blog/ai-in-supply-chain-planning-gartner-summit-roi-2025/) - AI in supply chain planning is everywhere. Arkieva explains how leaders can focus on measurable ROI, not hype, before Gartner the SCP Summit.
- [What the Best Conversations at IBF Orlando 2025 Were Really About](https://arkieva.com/blog/sop-best-practices-at-ibf-orlando-2025-supply-chain/) - Fresh insights from IBF Orlando 2025: explore how leaders are rethinking S&OP best practices, automation and AI to create data-driven planning environments.
- [Top 5 Questions Every Supply Chain Leader Should Ask Vendors at the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit](https://arkieva.com/blog/questions-for-supply-chain-planning-vendors-gartner-summit/) - Heading to the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit? These 5 questions help leaders evaluate supply chain planning vendors that deliver measurable results.
- [Embracing Change: How Jazwares Transformed S&OP](https://arkieva.com/blog/jazwares-supply-chain-planning-transformation-gartner/) - Explore Jazwares’ supply chain planning transformation and what they’ll share at the Gartner Summit about modern S&OP and scaling planning during rapid growth.
- [Is Excel Quietly Holding Your Planning Process Hostage?](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-planning-excel-limitations-manufacturing/) - Excel supply chain planning hits a ceiling in process manufacturing. Discover 5 failure modes and when to evolve beyond spreadsheets for better decisions.
- [When the Recipe Is the Problem: Supply Chain Planning in the Chemical Industry](https://arkieva.com/blog/chemical-supply-chain-planning-challenges/) - Discover why chemical supply chain planning is uniquely complex, from the bullwhip effect and raw material volatility to siloed data and regulatory constraints.
- ["Dynamic by Design" Means Nothing Without Planning That Works in Reality](https://arkieva.com/blog/gartner-supply-chain-planning-symposium-arkieva/) - Planning to attend the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Symposium? See how Arkieva approaches real-world planning and book time to connect onsite.
- [Stop Optimizing for Speed. Start Planning for Reality.](https://arkieva.com/blog/shift-left-planning-supply-chain-execution-gap/) - Most supply chain planning efforts fail in execution. Learn how to build more stable, executable plans by addressing constraints, risk, and trade-offs earlier.
- [The Planning System That Optimizes for the Wrong Thing](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-planning-risk-shift-left/) - Traditional planning treats supply chain planning risk as an afterthought. See how Shift-Left Risk makes resilience foundational, not a recovery effort.
- [Notes from Orlando: AI, Risk and the Plan That Holds](https://arkieva.com/blog/gartner-supply-chain-planning-symposium-takeaways/) - Arkieva CEO Anand Iyer shares four supply chain planning takeaways from Gartner Symposium 2026: AI matured, risk is now a first-class variable.
- [Practitioners Agree on the Problem. The Real Question Is Trust.](https://arkieva.com/blog/shift-left-risk-aware-supply-chain-planning/) - Practitioners agree plans are fragile. But will they trust risk-aware supply chain planning to act on it? Arkieva explores what makes the difference.
- [Why Resilience Is an Architecture Decision, Not a Response Strategy](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-resilience-planning-architecture/) - Resilience isn't a response capability. It's a planning architecture. Here's what most supply chain investments get wrong—and what shift-left planning does instead.
- [What Your Best Planner Knows That Your System Doesn’t](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-planning-assumptions-what-your-best-planner-knows/) - Your best planner already knows which supply chain planning assumptions are wrong. Learn why that knowledge belongs in your model, not applied on top of it.
- [Essential Concepts for Successful Responsiveness: 7 Steps to Improve the Scheduler’s World](https://arkieva.com/blog/essential-concepts-for-successful-responsiveness-7-steps-to-improve-the-schedulers-world/) - This blog covers 7 seps to improve scheduling, essential concepts for successful responsiveness, including data requirements and managing objectives.
- [7 Must-Attend Sessions at the 2022 Gartner Supply Chain Symposium | Xpo](https://arkieva.com/blog/must-attend-sessions-2022-gartner-supply-chain-symposium/) - This year’s recommended sessions range from executive leadership to lessons learned to simply getting the most out of the most recent Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning.
- [The Hippocratic Oath for Forecasters](https://arkieva.com/blog/hippocratic-oath-for-forecasters/) - Is there an equivalent to the Hippocratic Oath for forecasters? What harm(s) can a forecaster easily avoid? This blog explores some examples.
- [Top 5 Signs You Have Outgrown Your Planning System](https://arkieva.com/blog/5-signs-outgrown-demand-planning-system/) - Demand planning software degrades over time. Here are the 5 signs it's time to update your planning software and improve forecast accuracy.
- [Our Top Blogs from 2021](https://arkieva.com/blog/our-top-blogs-from-2021/) - Arkieva prides itself on providing some of the best in supply chain thought leadership. Over 300,000 individuals read our blog articles in 2021. The volatile nature of the supply chain today drove our readers to educate themselves on practical actions they can take to remain competitive.
- [Announcing the New Arkieva Brand](https://arkieva.com/blog/arkieva-rebrand/) - We are excited to announce that we are rebranding Arkieva to fuel growth, strengthen our position in the market, and continue to be a recognized leader in the supply chain industry. Over the past few years, we have been relentlessly focused on solving the most complex planning challenges through simple, intuitive, end-to-end solutions leveraging our best-in-class data scientists, software developers, and supply chain optimization consultants.
- [The Ongoing Shipping Container Shortage and Possible Effects on Tomorrow’s Supply Chain](https://arkieva.com/blog/shipping-container-shortage-effects-on-supply-chain/) - Shipping containers are in short supply, or perhaps a better way to say it is that they are waiting to be unloaded or loaded resulting in a shortage. In this blog, let us try to enlist some possible future impacts of this situation. Let us look at it from the perspectives of the different players in the supply chain.
- [What is Happening to Our Supply Chains?](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-problems/) - Everyone is talking about supply chains these days. Ever worsening weather, a global pandemic, and a labor shortage have generated a perfect storm that has pushed global supply chains to their breaking point. I propose that the problem has been building for some time and this perfect storm may just be the reset we need.
- [How to Use What-if Scenarios to Create a Dynamic IBP Paradigm](https://arkieva.com/blog/what-if-scenarios-create-dynamic-ibp-paradigm/) - Taking the time to perform what-if analyses on a regular basis with real and speculative events, gives planners tremendous insight into what parts of the supply chain are most sensitive to changes. As a result, planners will have a sense of what is a big deal and what is not. And when a crisis happens, they’ll feel confident in their ability to respond.
- [Pandemic Induced Supply Chain Issues](https://arkieva.com/blog/pandemic-supply-chain-issues/) - Recently, we have heard about several product shortages and other issues in the supply chain. Let us try and make sense of some of these in this blog. As I live in the US, my experience is somewhat limited to what happened here.
- [Arkieva Recognized as Visionary by Gartner](https://arkieva.com/blog/2021-gartner-magic-quadrant-scp/) - We are pleased to announce that due to the amazing support of Arkieva customers, Arkieva has been named as a Visionary in the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions.
- [Supply Chain Planning Improvement Implementation Steps](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-implementation-steps/) - We often see companies wanting to make the transition from spreadsheet-based planning to a best-of-breed supply chain planning system. There is often a question about where to start, what the foundational elements are, and which are the more advanced elements.
- [Building the Business Case for Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)](https://arkieva.com/blog/business-case-sales-and-operations-planning/) - Making the business case for Sales and Operations planning is not always easy given that you will need to bring on board key decision-makers in your organization. Let us explore how one can go about making the business case for a proposed S&OP project.
- [Sudoku and SCM: The Binary Connection – A Path To Smarter Solutions](https://arkieva.com/blog/sudoku-scm-binary-connection/) - An earlier Sudoku blog recognizing Puzzle Day, provided an overview of solving Sudoku using MILP optimization and mentions these methods are helpful to find solutions in supply or central planning. This blog elaborates on “binary variables” which is the connecting technology between Sudoku and Supply Chain Management (SCM).
- [Supply Chain Planning Transformation](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-planning-transformation/) - I was asked recently about what it takes to transform the supply chain planning process of a company. Having gone through this process a few times in my past, I thought it best to share my experiences and suggestions in the form of a discussion with Tapan Mallik during a webinar. This blog is a precursor to that webinar.
- [Top Ten Holiday Wishes for Directors of “Extended” Supply Chain](https://arkieva.com/blog/top-ten-holiday-wishes-directors-supply-chain/) - With the holiday season, everyone is making their wish list and checking it twice. Here are some ideas to add to any director of supply chain's wish list.
- [Retail Planning – Is It Time For A Change??](https://arkieva.com/blog/retail-planning-time-for-change/) - Isn’t the goal of a successful retailer to give the customer what they want, when they want it? And isn’t today’s customer changing their mind on what they want quicker than ever? Quick trend changes are driven by this customer and retailers must be flexible to survive...
- [Investing in SCM Technology: Sense and Respond – A Vision from A Long Time Ago in A Galaxy Far, Far Away](https://arkieva.com/blog/investing-scm-technology-sense-and-respond/) - Having a vision of the future is important to help coordinate SCM initiatives towards the “global good” – but having a vision is worthless without effective work in the trenches. In fact, a far better vision is “sense and respond” SAR which moves an organization from a big bang paradigm periodic driven approach that currently dominates SCM even in best in class organizations to an “as needed” basis.
- [SCM Technology Investment – INFORMS Provides Critical Information for Success](https://arkieva.com/blog/investing-scm-technology-informs/) - Before the current set of analytics and SCM experts, it was the OR/MS profession that drove the development and successful application of analytic and data methods to improve supply chain performance. INFORMS continues to lead in the ongoing challenge of more intelligent and responsive supply chains. In this blog, we will point out some keynote addresses from the current meeting of relevance to successful SCM technology investments.
- [Investing in SCM Technology: 6 Hints for Success - From a Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away](https://arkieva.com/blog/investing-scm-technology-6-hints-for-success/) - “Chaos, complexity, and uncertainty” often victimize an organization’s supply chain outstripping the ability of spreadsheet-based tools to respond intelligently. Sounds like 2020? In fact, this comes from one of the original Jedi Knights Dr. Harlan Crowder in a 1997 paper titled “Helpful Hints for OR/MS Consultants”. The purpose of this blog is to revisit this paper since the hints for success are as relevant now as they were then.
- [Executive Perceptions of Machine Learning and Data Anomalies](https://arkieva.com/blog/machine-learning-data-anomalies/) - The chatter about Artificial Intelligence’s (AI) and its recent companion, machine learning (ML) is ever present. In a wide range of economic activities AI/ML methods are now standard practice. Arkieva is certain that one of the best uses of AI is “data cleaning and profiling”. Based on its years of experience, getting the data right dramatically improves demand estimation outcomes.
- [Supply Chain Management - Autonomous is Far Away and Resiliency is Needed Now](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-management-autonomous-far-away-resiliency-needed/) - Over the past few years, the chatter about the role of AI to “optimize” supply chain has been almost endless. Some of the material is great, other is hype, some conjecture, and in most cases, we will not know the impact for many years. The second critical concept that has to be incorporated into intelligence is resiliency. Historically central planning Demand Management’s Partner in Crime – Central Planning has focused on minimizing cost, new models must now balance resiliency not just for your suppliers, but your supplier’s suppliers.
- [Avoiding Data Driven Disasters – Operations Management (OM) To The Rescue](https://arkieva.com/blog/operations-management-avoid-data-driven-disasters/) - If you are thinking “machine learning and AI” will save you from data disasters – think again as the pandemic behavior is playing havoc with machine learning models.
- [Supply Chain Challenges in Turbulent Times – The Importance of Preparedness and Responsiveness](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-challenges-turbulent-times/) - The current COVID-19 situation highlights the supply chain management challenges in any turbulent time. In this blog we identify five key points: preparedness, larger good, anticipate, and not react to events, responsiveness, and an intelligent stochastic estimate of demand. 
- [“Optimized” Inventory Forecasting a Co-Product of Optimized Central Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/optimized-inventory-forecasting/) - In a recent blog on Inventory Forecasting the core challenges and business importance of estimating inventory are outlined. A projected inventory position across time (plan) is a natural co-product of most central or master planning models that match assets with the demand to create a projected supply line linked to demand. 
- [Coronavirus: A Substantial Supply Chain Interruption – The Importance of Digital Supply Chain](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-interruption-coronavirus/) - The tragic outbreak of the Coronavirus has again demonstrated the need for ever vigilant health care services and fast response. It has demonstrated that supply chain interruptions from a manufacturing excursion to a port strike to an infectious disease outbreak require two actions from any firm: preparation and response.
- [What is Inventory Forecasting & Why Does Your Business Need It?](https://arkieva.com/blog/inventory-forecasting-why-you-need-it/) - Inventory forecasting uses historical sales and purchasing data, current demand and planned production, and distribution resource data to predict future inventory levels.
- [In Search of the Dashboard You Deserve](https://arkieva.com/blog/dashboard-you-deserve/) - Most software packages show current views of current forecasts, sales, production, and inventory. But what if you wanted visibility of the underlying trends, changes, patterns in all systems...
- [Is your Supply Chain geared-up for this Holiday Season?](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-for-holiday-season/) - your Supply Chain geared-up for this Holiday Season? Fret not, since our 10-point check-list is here to help you evaluate and guide your business preparations for a smooth holiday season. So, let’s get started!
- [RCCP versus MPS –historic terms and a path to inadequate organizational performance](https://arkieva.com/blog/rccp-versus-mps-historic-terms/) - Where did the terms RCCP and MPS come from? Reading the recent blog “RCCP versus MPS – Can They Be Connected?” it struck me whether this question represents the current best in class or do they represent old terms as well as an old way of thinking that should not be the end goal of an organization any more when it comes to supply chain planning.
- [RCCP versus MPS - Can They Be Connected?](https://arkieva.com/blog/rccp-versus-mps/) - Learn when to use master production scheduling versus rough cut capacity planning to plan production details and check your plan's feasibility.
- [Forecasting Lessons From Popeye Chicken Sandwich Stockouts](https://arkieva.com/blog/forecasting-lessons-popeye-chicken-stockouts/) - Though social media could drive up the brand of a company, it can also cause big disruptions in the supply chain operations of a company. A great example that happened recently is where Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen chain ran completely out of chicken sandwiches.
- [Top 7 Benefits of System driven Inventory Projections](https://arkieva.com/blog/benefits-system-driven-inventory-projections/) - Scientific and system-driven Inventory Projection facilitates a quick decision-making process and enables a prompt analysis of alternative what-if scenarios. The following are the top 7 benefits of system driven inventory projection.
- [Make Demand Segmentation Effective With The Use Of Exception Management](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-segmentation-use-exception-management/) - There is no doubt that demand segmentation can help you bring clarity to demand planning and the overall supply chain planning process and lead to far superior results in terms of various supply chain metrics. At the core of segmentation is the understanding that one size will not fit all.
- [Impact of right-sizing inventory on EBITDA](https://arkieva.com/blog/right-sizing-inventory-ebitda/) - Supply chain planning projects are often approved on the back of the promise of lower inventory levels. In a recent conversation, I was asked a more nuanced question: whether right-sizing inventory via better supply chain planning improves earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA). This blog tries to address this question.
- [How Do You Create the Right Inventory Balance?](https://arkieva.com/blog/inventory-balance/) - Striking the balance between overstocking and understocking should not always be a guessing game.
- [Supply Chain Best Practices from 10 Leading Companies](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-best-practices/) - Here’s a quick overview of supply chain best practices from 10 leading companies from the 2018 Drucker Institute Ranking.
- [How to Forecast Demand for New Products](https://arkieva.com/blog/demand-forcasting-new-products/) - Start your new product demand forecasting process with this 7-step guide.
- [7 Must-Attend Sessions at The Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference](https://arkieva.com/blog/gartner-supply-chain-executive-conference-2018-sessions/) - We are thrilled about presenting a session with Arkieva customer — Lush Handmade Cosmetics. Last year we created the 2017 Gartner Supply Chain Conference list of Must-Attend Sessions. To continue along that tradition, here is the list of Must-Attend sessions at the Gartner Supply Chain Conference this year.
- [10 Warehouse Productivity Tips for Reducing Downtime Today!](https://arkieva.com/blog/10-warehouse-productivity-tips/) - Implement these 10 warehouse productivity tips for quick productivity boost and reduction in production downtime.
- [5 Spooky Excel Error Tales That Could Become Your Nightmare](https://arkieva.com/blog/5-excel-error-tales-that-could-become-your-nightmare/) - A Microsoft Excel error could be one of your worst nightmares, and best career limiting move.
- [Cloud vs. On-Premise Supply Chain Software: And the Winner Is….](https://arkieva.com/blog/cloud-vs-premise-supply-chain-software/) - On-premise supply chain software vs. cloud supply chain software; which is the better solution?
- [Beyond the Supply Chain Maturity Model Buzz](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-maturity-model-buzz/) - Supply chain "maturity model" just like big data are commonly used buzz words in supply chain solutions, but what does it really mean to your business?
- [Good Advice: Don’t dwell in the past](https://arkieva.com/blog/good-advice-dont-dwell-past/) - Good Advice: Don’t dwell in the past
- [A Guide to Supply Chain Management: Making Intuition More Valuable](https://arkieva.com/blog/guide-to-supply-chain-management-making-intuition-more-valuable/) - A Guide to Supply Chain Management Making Intuition More Valuable
- [Understanding Today's Supply Chain Complexity: There’s No Substitute for Hard Work!](https://arkieva.com/blog/understanding-5-complexities-todays-supply-chains-theres-no-substitute-hard-work/) - Understanding Today's Supply Chain Complexity: There’s no substitute for hard work!
- [A Five-Step Approach to Effective Demand Planning Implementation](https://arkieva.com/blog/effective-demand-planning-implementation/) - How do you create a demand planning process? Here's a Five-Step Approach to Creating an Effective Demand Planning Implementation.
- [Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SiOP) - Part Five](https://arkieva.com/blog/sales-inventory-operations-planning-siop-part-five/) - Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SiOP) - Part Five: Exec SiOP
- [Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SiOP) - Part Four](https://arkieva.com/blog/siop-part-4/) - Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SiOP) - Part Four
- [Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SiOP) - Part Three](https://arkieva.com/blog/sales-inventory-operations-planning-siop-part-three/) - Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SiOP) - Part Three
- [Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SiOP) - Part Two](https://arkieva.com/blog/sales-inventory-operations-planning-siop-part-two/) - Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SiOP) - Part Two
- [Five Customer Product Segmentation Pitfalls to Avoid](https://arkieva.com/blog/5-segmentation-pitfalls-to-avoid/) - Five Customer Product Segmentation Pitfalls to Avoid
- [Do You Have a Bimodal Supply Chain?](https://arkieva.com/blog/bimodal-supply-chain/) - I attended the Gartner conference in Phoenix and heard from many speakers and analysts. The key theme at the conference was that of a bimodal supply chain. For those who did not attend, this phrase might not mean much. In this post, I will try to explain this phrase. In simple terms, the talk seemed
- [Build Your Own Corner Office](https://arkieva.com/blog/build-corner-office/) - Build Your Own Corner Office
- [Do you want to go places? My Advice for recent college graduates](https://arkieva.com/blog/advice-for-recent-college-graduates/) - So you want to go places? Advice for recent college graduates.
- [Can Supply Chain Planners Ignore ROI?](https://arkieva.com/blog/can-supply-chain-planners-ignore-roi/) - Can Supply Chain Planners Ignore ROI?
- [Biggest Mistake: Ignoring the Math behind ROI](https://arkieva.com/blog/biggest-mistake-ignoring-math-behind-roi/) - Biggest Mistake: Ignoring the Math behind ROI
- [The ABCDs of an Excellent Supply Chain - Part Two](https://arkieva.com/blog/the-abcds-of-an-excellent-supply-chain-part-two/) - The ABCDs of an Excellent Supply Chain - Part two
- [Want a gold medal? Forget the Traditional Approach When Driving a Supply Chain Technology Project!](https://arkieva.com/blog/want-a-gold-medal-forget-the-traditional-approach-when-driving-a-supply-chain-technology-project/) - Forget the traditional approach of blueprinting, software selection and implementation when looking at driving a supply chain technology project.
- [Five principles for future Supply Chain Planners](https://arkieva.com/blog/five-principles-for-future-supply-chain-planners/) - Five Principles for future Supply Chain Planners
- [Asking key ROI questions](https://arkieva.com/blog/asking-key-roi-questions/) - Asking key ROI questions
- [Four Steps to an Ethical Supply Chain](https://arkieva.com/blog/four-steps-to-an-ethical-supply-chain/) - Four Steps to an Ethical Supply Chain
- [Management and Supply Chain Planners: A case of hedgehog and the fox?](https://arkieva.com/blog/management-and-supply-chain-planners-a-case-of-hedgehog-and-the-fox/) - Management and Supply Chain Planners interactions
- [What is the true cost of a low cost supply chain?](https://arkieva.com/blog/what-is-the-true-cost-of-a-low-cost-supply-chain/) - True cost of a low cost supply chain
- [Building Your First Model](https://arkieva.com/blog/building-your-first-model/) - How do you start building your first model? Whatever software you will use, make sure to map out your business first. Refer to your informal meetings and ask what questions your model should help answer. Next to these questions, define what decisions you want the data to support.
- [Welcome to Wilmington!](https://arkieva.com/blog/welcome-to-wilmington/) - Here at Arkieva we have three offices. We can also be found in Mangalore, India and Antwerp, Belgium but our headquarters are located in Wilmington, DE. For some this may ring a bell…for the others keep reading and I tell you more about this city we call home.
- [Supply Chain of 2025: Global with Strong Regional Characteristics](https://arkieva.com/blog/supply-chain-of-2025-global-with-strong-regional-characteristics/) - Recently, I participated in a podcast with Lora Cecere where we discussed the following question: What would the supply chain of 2025 look like? Questions like this are always fun to consider. Of course, they would be easier to answer if one had a crystal ball. Below is where my mind went as we discussed this topic.
- [Imagine the Supply Chain of 2025](https://arkieva.com/blog/imagine-the-supply-chain-of-2025/) - supply chain of 2025
- [Cycle Service Level Versus Fill Rate Service Level – Part Two](https://arkieva.com/blog/cycle-service-level-versus-fill-rate-service-level-part-two/) - Cycle Service Level Versus Fill Rate Service Level - Safety Stock
- [Cycle Service Level Versus Fill Rate Service Level – Part One](https://arkieva.com/blog/cycle-service-level-versus-fill-rate-service-level-part-one/) - Cycle Service Level for Safety Stock calculations
- [Are You Using Stories To Your Advantage In Your Supply Chain Planning Process?](https://arkieva.com/blog/are-you-using-stories-to-your-advantage-in-your-supply-chain-planning-process/) - Using stories to your advantage in your supply chain planning process
- [The Emergence of Global Markets with Regional Characteristics](https://arkieva.com/blog/the-emergence-of-global-markets-with-regional-characteristics/) - Emergence of Global Markets with Regional Characteristics
- [Is Your S&OP Glass Half-Full Or Half-Empty?](https://arkieva.com/blog/is-your-sop-glass-half-full-or-half-empty/) - Good S&OP Processes lead with the positive. Does Yours?
- [The Future of Supply Chain and How to Prepare](https://arkieva.com/blog/the-future-of-supply-chain-and-how-to-prepare/) - Future of Supply Chain.
- [Is Your S&OP Meeting Mostly About The Past And The Present?](https://arkieva.com/blog/is-your-sop-meeting-mostly-about-the-past-and-the-present/) - A S&OP meeting is a meeting to design the future course of a business. Too many companies spend too much time talking about the past or the current period.
- [What Is OLAP And Why Should I Care About It?](https://arkieva.com/blog/what-is-olap-and-why-should-i-care-about-it/) - On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) is a tool that allows one to go beyond the fixed, two dimensional view found in spreadsheets and provides the ability to interactively explore multi-dimensional data.
- [Post-Merger Bridge to Sales and Operations Planning](https://arkieva.com/blog/post-merger-bridge-to-sales-and-operations-planning/) - Sales and Operations Planning after a merger
- [7 Simple Steps to Optimize the Scheduler’s World](https://arkieva.com/blog/7-simple-steps-to-optimize-the-schedulers-world/) - The term ‘optimization’ can and does have different meanings to different groups. In this post, we will identify key steps to optimize the scheduling process.
- [5 Questions to Ask When Collaborating with Customers](https://arkieva.com/blog/5-questions-to-ask-when-collaborating-with-customers-2/) - In this blog, I would like to step away from collaborating with internal departments to discuss collaborating with customers which can increase customer service and satisfaction levels.
- [David versus Goliath: Lessons from a Genuine Challenger](https://arkieva.com/blog/david-versus-goliath-lessons-from-a-genuine-challenger/) - Recently, Arkieva has been labeled as a Challenger by a third party organization. When I hear the word “Challenger” it conjures up what I believe to be the most famous challenger in all of history, David versus Goliath.
- [Don’t Blame the Testers](https://arkieva.com/blog/dont-blame-the-testers/) - When a bug occurs in a live system, the first thing that comes to mind is “why didn’t the testers find this?” This is sometimes followed by an initiative to improve the testing process which is usually handed down by management. By doing this, they call into question the testers expertise.
- [Inertia and Entropy: No Wonder S&OP is Tough](https://arkieva.com/blog/inertia-and-entropy-no-wonder-sop-is-tough/) - Inertia and Entropy: No Wonder S&OP is Tough
- [15 Questions to Ask When Collaborating with Marketing and Product Managers](https://arkieva.com/blog/15-questions-to-ask-when-collaborating-with-marketing-and-product-managers/) - 15 Questions to Ask When Collaborating with Marketing ad Product Managers
- [Can everyone test?](https://arkieva.com/blog/can-everyone-test/) - Can everyone test?
- [Implementation Considerations](https://arkieva.com/blog/implementation-considerations/) - Implementation Considerations
- [Three Inventory Modules in Supply Chain Planning Software Suites](https://arkieva.com/blog/three-inventory-modules-in-supply-chain-planning-software-suites/) - Three Inventory Modules in Supply Chain Planning Software Suites
- [8 Ways to Encourage Sales Teams to Provide Forecast Input](https://arkieva.com/blog/8-ways-to-encourage-sales-teams-to-provide-forecast-input-2/) - Sales is a fast-paced business; people who aren't focused on the here and now usually lose out on sales. As mentioned in Jelle’s blog, sales persons would rather be out in the field selling, which is the reason why they feel it would be a waste of their resources sitting in their office forecasting. Yet,
- [Planning versus Scheduling versus Execution – Family Vacation Style](https://arkieva.com/blog/planning-versus-scheduling-versus-execution-family-vacation-style/) - In the supply chain world, we often talk about planning, scheduling and execution. In this two part blog post, we will try and explain this from two points of view: One from real life and another from a supply chain perspective.
- [5 Steps to a Better Statistical Forecast](https://arkieva.com/blog/5-steps-to-a-better-statistical-forecast/) - Whether using a spreadsheet, your ERP vendor, or a best-of-breed software, below are 5 things to do to achieve a better statistical forecast:

## Resources

- [Using What-if Scenario Planning to Balance Supply and Demand](https://arkieva.com/resources/what-if-scenario-planning-balance-supply-demand/) - Whether they're short-term or long-term in nature, all plans inherently grapple with uncertainty related to the future.
- [How to Build the ROI Case for Planning and Scheduling](https://arkieva.com/resources/build-roi-case-planning-scheduling/) - As manufacturing businesses grow, there is almost always an increase in complexity - there are many products, customers, production machines, locations, etc.
- [How to Achieve Better Operations Scheduling](https://arkieva.com/resources/achieve-better-operations-scheduling-webinar/) - Creating an ‘optimal’ schedule in certain conditions is both a science and an art.
- [How to Improve Your Statistical Forecast Using Machine Learning](https://arkieva.com/resources/improve-statistical-forecast-machine-learning/) - How can artificial intelligence and machine learning help achieve higher forecasting accuracy?
- [Hierarchical Supply Chain Planning](https://arkieva.com/resources/hierarchical-supply-chain-planning-sop-to-execution/) - Learn how hierarchical supply chain planning connects S&OP with execution, aligns planning horizons, and improves supply chain performance.
- [Quintiq Alternative for Process Manufacturers](https://arkieva.com/resources/quintiq-alternative/) - Evaluating a DELMIA Quintiq alternative? See what to assess on model ownership, demand planning, process constraints, and deployment before your next change request.
- [Gartner Supply Chain Symposium 2026 EMEA](https://arkieva.com/resources/gartner-supply-chain-symposium-2026-emea/) - Join Arkieva in Booth #114 at the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium, May 18-20 2026 in Barcelona.
- [Gartner Supply Chain Summit](https://arkieva.com/resources/gartner-supply-chain-summit-2026/) - Join Arkieva at Gartner Supply Chain Summit Nov 2-3, Denver. Hear how Bakelite unified S&OP across 20+ sites. Schedule a meeting with our team.
- [Shift-Left Risk: A New Operating System For Supply Chain Planning](https://arkieva.com/resources/shift-left-risk-supply-chain-planning-architecture-infographic/) - See the Shift-Left Risk architecture at a glance — a visual guide to building risk-aware supply chain planning.
- [IBF Orlando Conference](https://arkieva.com/resources/ibf-sop-ibp-best-practices-conference-2026/) - Meet Arkieva at IBF Orlando 2026 to explore how modern S&OP solutions enhance planning agility, forecast accuracy and business performance.
- [Lush Finds Greater Visibility and Preparedness With Integrated Supply Chain Planning Solution](https://arkieva.com/resources/lush-teams-up-with-arkieva-to-improve-demand-inventory-and-financial-planning/) - Improve demand, inventory and financial planning. Read how Lush enabled greater visibility and forecasting with our integrated supply chain planning solution.
- [Boost Supply Chain Efficiency with Tech Assessment Checklist](https://arkieva.com/resources/technology-checklist-supply-chain-efficiency-guide/) - Increase supply chain efficiency with our Technology Assessment Checklist. Identify gaps, improve scalability and future-proof your technology.
- [Supply Chain Planning Software: A Step-by-Step Vendor Guide](https://arkieva.com/resources/supply-chain-planning-software-vendor-selection-guide/) - Find the best supply chain planning software with this step-by-step vendor selection guide. Compare features, evaluate costs and make the right choice with confidence.
- [Step 5: Implement Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)](https://arkieva.com/resources/step-5-implement-sales-and-operations-planning/) - Learn how to implement and sustain your S&OP process, with expert tips on starting strong, maintaining success, and reaping key business benefits.
- [Stop Guessing, Starting Anticipating With Predictive Sales Analytics](https://arkieva.com/resources/sales-predictor/) - Gain more insight into your customers. Discover how predictive sales analytics can help you focus on business opportunities that can yield a greater impact.
- [How Arkieva Supported Jazwares’ Global S&OP Transformation](https://arkieva.com/resources/jazwares-sop-transformation-case-study/) - See how Jazwares achieved a global S&OP transformation, improving forecast accuracy, visibility and decision speed using Arkieva’s planning platform.
- [Meet Arkieva at the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit](https://arkieva.com/resources/gartner-supply-chain-planning-summit-meeting-request/) - Schedule a meeting with Arkieva at the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit to explore innovative solutions for demand forecasting and supply chain resilience.
- [Effective Demand Planning Step 1: Understanding Customer Demand](https://arkieva.com/resources/effective-demand-planning-understanding-customer/) - Discover how our demand planning expertise drives supply chain success. Watch our video guide on S&OP approach, starting with understanding customer demand.
- [How to Select Effective Dashboard KPIs](https://arkieva.com/resources/how-to-select-effective-dashboard-kpis/) - Watch Justin Evilsizor's on-demand webinar on choosing the right KPIs to drive your integrated business planning process.
- [Gartner Supply Chain Symposium 2026](https://arkieva.com/resources/gartner-supply-chain-symposium-2026/) - Meet Arkieva at the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium, May 4-6 2026 in Orlando, FL — booth #228.
- [How to Improve Forecast Accuracy](https://arkieva.com/resources/how-to-improve-forecast-accuracy/) - Watch Arkieva COO Sujit Singh's on-demand webinar for proven techniques to improve your business's forecast accuracy.
- [Duvel Moortgat Beer Improves Inventory Management With S&OP solution](https://arkieva.com/resources/duvel-moortgat-beer-brews-an-improved-demand-and-inventory-management-process-with-arkieva/) - Improve inventory management in your supply chain. See how Duvel Moortgaat Beer unlocked automated forecasting and greater visibility and analysis.
- [Duvel Moortgat’s Recipe for Global Supply Chain Success](https://arkieva.com/resources/duvel-moortgat-sop-management-case-study/) - Duvel Moortgat streamlined a global supply chain with Arkieva's S&OP management solutions. Improve forecasting, inventory, and collaboration.
- [A Buyer's Guide to Closing the SAP IBP Scheduling Gap](https://arkieva.com/resources/ibp-solutions-scheduling-gap/) - Arkieva's IBP solutions close the S&OP to S&OE scheduling gap, letting process manufacturers plan and execute production without a second SAP project.
- [NASCES Conference](https://arkieva.com/resources/nasces-conference-2026/) - Arkieva is at the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit, Sept 21–23 in Las Vegas. Book a 1:1 meeting to talk Shift Left planning, live.
- [Crafting ROI Cases for Supply Chain Planning Software](https://arkieva.com/resources/build-roi-case-supply-chain-planning-quick-guide/) - Selling supply chain planning (SCP) projects can be challenging. Learn how to build compelling ROI cases securing stakeholder buy-in for new projects.
- [Master Supply Chain Change Management for Lasting Success](https://arkieva.com/resources/digital-supply-chain-transformation-change-management-guide/) - Learn how to manage digital supply chain transformation with our Change Management Guide. Get actionable strategies for lasting success. Download now.
- [The Roadmap to Automated, Data-Driven S&OP](https://arkieva.com/resources/roadmap-automated-data-driven-sop-guide/) - Streamline your S&OP process with automation and smarter KPIs. Download our free guide to learn how supply chain leaders are building agile, data-driven plans.
- [Know Which Disruptions Your Plan Can Already Absorb](https://arkieva.com/resources/shift-left-planning-webinar-recording/) - Shift left planning webinar: learn how process manufacturers can absorb and build-in disruption vs reacting to it. Watch the recording now.
- [A Buyer’s Guide to Evaluating SAP IBP vs. a Purpose-Built Alternative](https://arkieva.com/resources/sap-apo-alternative-process-manufacturing/) - Searching for a SAP APO alternative before the sunset deadline? See how Arkieva handles campaign sequencing and multi-site complexity, no S/4HANA project required.
- [Shift-Left Planning: How to Design Resilience Into Your Supply Chain Plan](https://arkieva.com/resources/shift-left-supply-chain-planning-webinar/) - Join Anand Iyer on a working session on Shift-Left Supply Chain Planning and discover how to design resilience into your supply chain plan.
- [You Know Disruption Is Coming, Does Your Planning Process?](https://arkieva.com/resources/risk-ready-planning-supply-chain-white-paper/) - Most leaders accept disruption is coming. Few have risk-ready planning to match. Download our white paper to see what that infrastructure requires.
- [Vendor Comparison and Evaluation Made Simple](https://arkieva.com/resources/vendor-comparison-and-evaluation-made-simple/) - Find the right supply chain software with this easy-to-use vendor evaluation checklist. Compare features, assess fit and make a confident decision. Download now.
- [Data Readiness Checklist for Supply Chain Planning Software Implementation](https://arkieva.com/resources/data-readiness-checklist-supply-chain-planning-software/) - Ensure a smooth rollout of your supply chain planning software with our data readiness checklist. Avoid delays and improve implementation success.
- [Why Planning Systems Fail After Go-Live, And the Operational KPIs That Predict It](https://arkieva.com/resources/planning-systems-fail-after-go-live-webinar/) - Learn why planning systems fail after go-live and the KPIs that predict adoption. Discover how to know early if your planning ROI will materialize.
- [Data-Driven Decision Making: How AI is Shaping the Future of Supply Chain Planning](https://arkieva.com/resources/how-ai-in-supply-chain-planning-shaping-future/) - Join us as we discuss how AI in supply chain planning is evolving. This session offers a practical view of how AI is reshaping decision-making.
- [7 Steps to Improve the Scheduler’s World](https://arkieva.com/resources/7-steps-to-improve-production-scheduling-video/) - Learn how to improve production scheduling with 7 practical steps that reduce chaos and boost control. Perfect for schedulers, planners and supply chain leaders.
- [Demand Planning Best Practices for Agility and Resilience](https://arkieva.com/resources/demand-planning-best-practices-resilience-video/) - Learn demand planning practices that reduce bias, improve forecast accuracy, and protect margins in volatile markets. Watch our latest video.
- [Applying AI in Supply Chain Planning: Practical Gains vs Unrealistic Promises](https://arkieva.com/resources/applying-ai-supply-chain-planning-solutions/) - Explore where AI in supply chain planning software delivers real value and where expectations still outpace reality. See practical use cases vs hyped claims.
- [Reality-First Planning](https://arkieva.com/resources/reality-supply-chain-planning-beyond-excel-webinar/) - Join this practical webinar on supply chain planning beyond Excel. Learn why spreadsheets break down in process manufacturing and what works instead.
- [From Implementation to Impact: How to Turn Planning Adoption into ROI](https://arkieva.com/resources/planning-software-roi-webinar/) - Most planning software ROI never arrives because adoption is the missing link. Join Arkieva's 25-min webinar to learn what drives real planning results.
- [6 Steps to Maximize Internal Supply Chain Efficiency](https://arkieva.com/resources/6-steps-to-maximize-supply-chain-efficiency/) - Discover 6 proven steps to reduce costs, streamline operations and boost your supply chain efficiency. Optimize your supply chain without disrupting business.
- [How to Implement Supply Chain Planning Software](https://arkieva.com/resources/supply-chain-software-implementation-whitepaper/) - Expert guide for supply chain leaders on how to successfully implement supply chain planning software. Align data, people and processes for lasting ROI.
- [How to Select Supply Chain Planning Software](https://arkieva.com/resources/supply-chain-planning-software-selection-whitepaper/) - Download our newest white paper to confidently select supply chain planning software that fits your goals, systems, timelines and budgets.
- [One-Plan Supply and Operations Management Solutions](https://arkieva.com/resources/one-plan-supply-and-production-management-solutions/) - Optimize your supply to intelligently meet demand with supply and operations planning solutions. Plan replenishment, analyze inventory and schedule production.
- [Inventory Planning Solutions](https://arkieva.com/resources/inventory-planning/) - Know what, where and how much to stock with Arkieva inventory planning solutions. Balance cost and customer service - users report 15-20% inventory reductions.
- [One-Plan Demand Management Solutions](https://arkieva.com/resources/one-plan-demand-management-solutions/) - Increase on-time shipments and reduce inventory with an improved demand management process. See how one-plan solutions help you proactively respond to demand.
- [Boost Supply Chain Efficiency](https://arkieva.com/resources/wells-improves-supply-chain-efficiency-case-study/) - Discover how Wells Enterprises improved supply chain efficiency, optimized production planning and reduced costs with advanced planning solutions.
- [Linde Clears the Air on Supply Chain Complexity](https://arkieva.com/resources/linde-optimizes-supply-planning-network/) - Striking a balance between assets and demand: see how Linde achieved network optimization in their global supply chain with Arkieva’s supply planning solution.
- [Plan Smarter with Sustainable Supply Chain Planning](https://arkieva.com/resources/sustainable-supply-chain-planning-quick-guide/) - Learn practical strategies to plan a more resilient, sustainable supply chain. Download our guide to reduce costs and strengthen operations.
- [Assess Your Supply Chain AI Readiness](https://arkieva.com/resources/ai-in-supply-chain-planning-maturity-quick-guide/) - Quickly assess your organization’s readiness for AI in supply chain planning in demand, supply, and inventory planning. Useful with benchmarks and next steps.
- [5 Signs Your Team Has Outgrown Its Planning Tools](https://arkieva.com/resources/signs-your-team-outgrown-supply-chain-planning-software/) - Reactive planning is costing you every quarter. Discover 5 signs it's time to upgrade your supply chain planning tools before losses mount.
- [The Excel Ceiling in Process Manufacturing](https://arkieva.com/resources/excel-ceiling-process-manufacturing-guide/) - See why process manufacturing software must go beyond spreadsheets. Download the free guide to constraint-aware, reality-first planning.
- [ASCM & IBF Best of the Best S&OP Conference](https://arkieva.com/resources/ibf-sop-conference-chicago-2026/) - Visit Arkieva at the ASCM & IBF S&OP Conference in Chicago, June 11–12, 2026. Book a 1:1 meeting to see AI-driven supply chain planning in action.
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- [Arkieva Named a Challenger in 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions](https://arkieva.com/resources/2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-supply-chain-planning-solutions/) - Download the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Planning Solutions. See how leading vendors compare and where Arkieva fits for complex process manufacturing environments.
- [Five Failure Modes That Signal It’s Time to Evolve](https://arkieva.com/resources/supply-chain-planning-five-failure-modes/) - In our work with our customers, we’ve identified five patterns that repeatedly emerge when Excel becomes a liability.
- [3 Must-Have Inventory Management Software Features: Analytics](https://arkieva.com/resources/3-must-have-inventory-management-software-features-for-optimizing-your-sop-process-today-analytics/) - Inventory management software solutions today, are often equipped with the features needed for supporting a streamlined Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process that reduces the need for excess inventory.
- [3 Must-Have Inventory Management Software Features: Inventory Planning](https://arkieva.com/resources/3-must-have-inventory-management-software-features-for-optimizing-your-sop-process-today-inventory-planning/) - Create a better balancing act between demand and supply by improving inventory projections in the short and long-term with better asset management.
- [3 Must-Have Inventory Management Software Features: Safety Stock Optimization](https://arkieva.com/resources/3-must-have-inventory-management-software-features-for-optimizing-your-sop-process-today-safety-stock-optimization/) - Determining the right inventory levels involves maintaining optimal inventory buffers for your cycle, safety, anticipation and transit stocks.
- [3 Must-have Inventory Planning Software Features Webinar](https://arkieva.com/resources/3-must-have-inventory-planning-software-features-webinar/) - Inventory management software solutions are often equipped with the features needed for supporting a streamlined integrated business planning process.
- [The Latest ‘R’ in Sustainability – Reshoring](https://arkieva.com/resources/supply-chain-sustainability-reshoring/) - We are all familiar with the mantra “Reduce – Reuse – Recycle.”, but recently, the focus in supply chain has expanded to another R: Reshoring.
- [How to Calculate Safety Stock and Evaluate Different Methods: Battling the Assumption of Normal Distribution](https://arkieva.com/resources/webinar-safety-stock-calculation-different-method/) - Discover methods for calculating safety stock and challenging assumptions on normal distribution in inventory management.
- [How to Build an ROI Case for Supply Chain Planning Software](https://arkieva.com/resources/how-to-roi-case-supply-chain-planning-software/) - How to Build an ROI Case for Supply Chain Planning Software Learn strategies for showcasing value and maximizing impact. Watch the Webinar Now.
- [How to Succeed at Supply Chain Transformation](https://arkieva.com/resources/how-to-succeed-supply-chain-transformation/) - Watch our webinar to learn key strategies for successful digital supply chain transformation, focusing on technology and the importance of people and processes.
- [The Power of Smarter KPIs in S&OP](https://arkieva.com/resources/key-to-smarter-sop-higher-impact-kpis-webinar/) - Learn how smarter KPIs can optimize your S&OP process. Join our webinar to discover key metrics that drive better decision-making and improve performance.
- [How to Select Supply Chain Planning Software](https://arkieva.com/resources/how-to-select-supply-chain-planning-software/) - Learn how to choose the best supply chain planning software with actionable strategies to streamline vendor selection and drive measurable results.
- [How to Implement Supply Chain Planning Software](https://arkieva.com/resources/how-to-implement-supply-chain-planning-software/) - Learn how to implement supply chain planning software on time and within budget with strategies for data readiness, team alignment and long-term success.
- [Meet Arkieva at the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit](https://arkieva.com/resources/gartner-supply-chain-planning-summit-2025/) - Connect with Arkieva at the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit 2025 to explore practical strategies for AI, composability and measurable ROI.
- [Improving Sunsweet's Forecast Accuracy](https://arkieva.com/resources/arkieva-solutions-bear-fruits-for-sunsweet-growers/) - Reduce costs and and improve order lead time in food supply chains. See how the world's largest dried fruit producer increased forecast accuracy by 15-20%.
- [Join Arkieva at IBF Orlando 2025](https://arkieva.com/resources/ibf-sop-ibp-best-practices-conference-2025/) - Meet Arkieva at IBF Orlando 2025 to explore how modern S&OP solutions enhance planning agility, forecast accuracy and business performance.
- [Simplify and Speed Up Supply Chain Data Integration](https://arkieva.com/resources/arkieva-data-connector/) - Simplify and speed up supply chain data integration. See how templates make rapid configuration with enterprise systems easy for your IT team.
- [Monetize Your Demand Forecast with Arkieva](https://arkieva.com/resources/financial-planning-supply-chain-solution/) - Explore Arkieva’s Financial Planning solution designed to align budgets, forecasts and strategic goals across your supply chain. Download Now.
- [Transform Your Supply Chain Planning at IBF’s S&OP and IBP Global Conference](https://arkieva.com/resources/ibf-chicago-conference-supply-chain-planning-solutions/) - Book a meeting with Arkieva at the IBF Chicago conference to explore our advanced supply chain planning solutions like AI-powered forecasting and scheduling.
- [Respond to Customer Demand More Effectively With a Supply Chain Sentiment Analysis Tool](https://arkieva.com/resources/customer-sentiment-analysis/) - Monitor customer social interactions in real-time. Sense signals and adjust your demand and supply plans with our supply chain sentiment analysis tool.
- [Gartner® Names Arkieva a Challenger in 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Planning Solutions](https://arkieva.com/resources/gartner-magic-quadrant-supply-chain-planning-solutions-2025/) - Arkieva named challenger in Gartner® 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for transformative supply chain planning solutions. Download the report for insights from Gartner.
- [Make Your Move from Reactive to Resilient at Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo™](https://arkieva.com/resources/gartner-supply-chain-symposium-2025-meet-arkieva/) - Discover how Arkieva helps global enterprises build resilient, scalable supply chain plans at the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium 2025 in Orlando.
- [INEOS Lowers Manufacturing Costs With S&OP Software](https://arkieva.com/resources/arkieva-reduces-rush-shipments-prevents-waste-and-lowers-inventory-at-ineos/) - Improve schedule stability and lower manufacturing costs. See how a chemical company made their supply chain more reliable with our one-plan solution.
- [How Arkieva Helped Grande Cheese Slice Through Supply Chain Challenges](https://arkieva.com/resources/grande-cheese-digital-supply-chain-transformation-case-study/) - Learn how Grande Cheese achieved seamless end-to-end visibility through digital supply chain transformation with Arkieva's fully integrated planning solution.
- [Nouryon Achieves a Harmonized S&OP Process](https://arkieva.com/resources/sop-process-harmony-nouryon-case-study/) - Learn how Nouryon improved their S&OP process with Arkieva, achieving better collaboration, data integration, and operational efficiency across business units.
- [Maximize Profit with Supply Chain Optimization Software](https://arkieva.com/resources/maximize-profit-supply-chain-optimization-software-video/) - Boost profitability with supply chain optimization software. Watch for expert tips and strategies to optimize your operations using existing resources.
- [Ontex Creates Integrated S&OP Process to Achieve Inventory Optimization](https://arkieva.com/resources/ontex-creates-integrated-sop-process-with-arkieva/) - Balance supply and demand and increase your company's profitability. Learn how Ontex achieved inventory optimization and even reduced obsolete inventory by 70%.
- [Gates Europe Implements Arkieva for Managing the S&OP Process](https://arkieva.com/resources/gates-europe-increases-sop-maturity-with-arkieva/) - Advance the maturity of your S&OP processes. See how a customer achieved efficient, collaborative planning by moving from Excel files to a one-plan solution.
- [McBride Selects Arkieva to Strengthen S&OP and Capacity Planning Process](https://arkieva.com/resources/mcbride-strengthens-sop-and-capacity-planning-processes/) - Strengthen your S&OP and optimize capacity planning processes. See how McBride was able to balance serivce, stock and cost with our one-plan solution.
- [Owens Corning Shortens Their S&OP Cycle](https://arkieva.com/resources/owens-corning-goes-for-sop-excellence-together-with-solventure-and-arkieva/) - Shorten your end-to-end S&OP cycle. Discover how Owens Corning reduced their cycle from weeks to days and improved efficiency with a one-plan solution.
- [Hexion Enhances Inventory Management Efficiency With S&OP Software](https://arkieva.com/resources/managing-mountains-of-inventory-data-hexion-ensures-sustainable-growth-and-profits-with-arkieva/) - Improve inventory management efficiency in your business. Learn how a chemical producer reduced finished inventory by more than 20% with our one-plan solution.
- [Certis Creates Fertile Grounds for a Better S&OP Process with Arkieva](https://arkieva.com/resources/certis-creates-fertile-grounds-for-better-sop-process/) - Learn How Certis Creates Fertile Grounds for a Better S&OP Process with Arkieva
- [Arkieva Enables Invista to Reduce Inventory & Position Itself for the Economic Recovery](https://arkieva.com/resources/invista-inventory-planning-economic-recovery/) - Discover how Arkieva's solutions helped Invista streamline inventory planning, positioning for economic recovery. Unlock efficiency today.
- [Propex Improves Supply Chain Performance, One Step at a Time](https://arkieva.com/resources/propex-supply-chain-performance-improvement/) - Discover how Propex systematically improves supply chain performance, enhancing efficiency and reliability. Explore the journey towards operational excellence.
- [Poppies Bakeries Perfects Their Sales & Operations Planning Recipe with Arkieva](https://arkieva.com/resources/poppies-sop-planner-solventure/) - Learn how Solventure assisted Poppies Bakery in optimizing their S&OP and Supply Chain processes to assist them with their rapid growth.
- [Creating a Great Planning & Scheduling (APS) Dish with What’s Cooking?](https://arkieva.com/resources/whats-cooking-creates-supply-planning-dish/) - Learn how a rapidly growing European food group tackled their supply planning challenges with the help of Arkieva's planning and scheduling tools.
- [Arkieva Solutions Allow Bakelite to Make Data-Driven, Responsive Decisions](https://arkieva.com/resources/bakelite-sop-demand-planning-case-study/) - Discover how Bakelite Synthetics improved their S&OP process and achieved data-driven decision-making with Arkieva's advanced planning solutions.
- [Using Supply Chain Planning to Increase Available Capacity](https://arkieva.com/resources/chemical-supply-chain-planning-capacity-case-study/) - Learn how a major chemical company increased throughput volume, cash flow, and on-time shipments in 12 months with Arkieva supply chain planning tools.
- [Sales Predictor](https://arkieva.com/resources/sales-predictor-anticipate-demand-video/) - Discover Arkieva's Sales Predictor tool for accurate sales prediction, helping your team anticipate customer needs and boost revenue with actionable insights.
- [IBF Business Planning Forecasting & S&OP/IBP Best Practices Conference](https://arkieva.com/resources/ibf-sop-ibp-best-practices-conference-2024/) - Join Arkieva at the IBF S&OP/IBP Best Practices Conference in Orlando, Oct 22-25, 2024. Discover innovative solutions to optimize your supply chain planning.
- [IBF S&OP and IBP Global Conference](https://arkieva.com/resources/ibf-sop-ibp-global-conference-chicago-2024/) - Join us in Chicago for the IBF S&OP and IBP Global Conference. Learn S&OP strategies, network with experts and enhance your planning skills. Register now.
- [Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) Basics: A Simplified View of the Supply Chain](https://arkieva.com/resources/sop-basics-whitepaper/) - Unlock supply chain success with our guide to sales and operations planning (S&OP). Optimize operations and drive efficiency for your supply chain journey.
- [The ROI of Demand Planning: A Guide to Enhancing Forecasting and Driving Business Success](https://arkieva.com/resources/demand-planning-roi-guide-forecasting-whitepaper/) - Unlock the potential of demand planning. Learn how to enhance forecasting for greater ROI and drive business success with our comprehensive guide.
- [How Supply Chain Optimization Increased Throughput 20%](https://arkieva.com/resources/increased-throughput-from-improved-supply-chain-planning/) - Unlock additional production capacity to meet growing demand. Read the case study to see how supply chain optimization increased throughput 20%.
- [Step 4 Balancing Supply and Demand](https://arkieva.com/resources/step-4-balance-supply-and-demand-sop/) - Learn how to balance supply and demand effectively with actionable insights and strategies to optimize your S&OP process in our latest video.
- [Step 3: Routinely Create A Demand Plan](https://arkieva.com/resources/step-3-routinely-create-a-demand-plan/) - Learn how to start demand planning, what tasks to expect, and the key benefits of routinely creating a demand plan for your supply chain strategy.
- [Supply Chain Glossary](https://arkieva.com/resources/supply-chain-terminology-glossary/) - Unlock the power of supply chain knowledge with our comprehensive glossary. From demand planning to S&OP management, find definitions you need to succeed.
- [5 Steps to Improving Your S&OP](https://arkieva.com/resources/improve-sop-5-tips-foundations-linkedin-event/) - Expert insights help you unlock the potential of your S&OP. Watch for foundational principles and 5 essential steps to S&OP optimization.
- [Step 2: Analyze Inventories](https://arkieva.com/resources/step-2-analyze-inventories/) - Achieve supply chain excellence with our expert inventory analysis strategies. Master S&OP to make better inventory decisions and enhance operations. Watch now!
- [3 Ways to Solve Modern Challenges of Inventory Management](https://arkieva.com/resources/solve-inventory-management-challenges-whitepaper/) - Discover 3 strategies to revolutionize inventory management, optimize your supply chain and overcome modern challenges in this white paper.
- [Importance of Supply Chain Collaboration](https://arkieva.com/resources/supply-chain-collaboration-linkedin-event/) - Explore key strategies for supply chain collaboration to optimize efficiency and drive success — foster collaboration for enhanced performance.
- [Gartner Supply Chain Symposium | Xpo™ 2024](https://arkieva.com/resources/gartner-supply-chain-symposium-xpo-2024/) - Supply chain leaders are continuously confronted with increasingly complex challenges such as economic volatility, geopolitical uncertainty and more.
- [How to Manage Your SCM Transformation Beyond IT](https://arkieva.com/resources/managing-supply-chain-transformation-beyond-it-whitepaper/) - Things will change, guaranteed, like it or not. That means that there is no pause button to hit when life is going great.
- [Eight Steps for Developing Decision Support Systems in Your Supply Chain](https://arkieva.com/resources/a-guide-to-project-management/) - Navigate the process of deploying decision support systems for supply chain planning. Review eight steps that can help guide the project.
- [Four Keys to Improving Your Supply Chain Planning During Times of Uncertainty](https://arkieva.com/resources/keys-to-supply-chain-planning-in-uncertain-times/) - The recovery is underway, or is it?
- [Enabling Collaborative Forecasting in the Supply Chain](https://arkieva.com/resources/make-it-simple-make-it-quick-make-it-arkieva/) - Enable each team member to contribute to demand planning decisions anywhere, anytime. See customer testimonials for our collaborative forecasting solution.
- [Reducing Costs by Optimizing Supply Chain Network Design](https://arkieva.com/resources/my-network-design-is-not-your-network-design/) - An optimal and flexible network design can be essential in planning the movement of intermediates, generating savings and minimizing costs.
- [Six Steps for Achieving Internal Supply Chain Planning Alignment](https://arkieva.com/resources/get-your-house-in-order/) - Align your internal supply chain planning. Integrating customers and suppliers is only part of the equation - see how to unlock value by looking inward.
- [How to Prioritize Supply Chain Challenges According to Impact on Financial Performance](https://arkieva.com/resources/prioritizing-supply-chain-challenges-that-impact-financial-performance/) - Understand how your supply chain influences financial performance and the most important challenges to address. Review the four-step benefits assessment.
- [What to Look For in an Enterprise Supply Chain Management Software](https://arkieva.com/resources/now-supply-chain-planning-makes-sense/) - Leverage powerful decision support and analysis tools in your supply chain planning. See what to look for in an enterprise supply chain management software.
- [The Pros and Cons of Using a Resident ERP System for Supply Chain Planning](https://arkieva.com/resources/why-your-erp-solution-might-not-be-best-for-your-supply-chain-planning-needs/) - Predict and plan for the future. Learn the pros and cons of using a resident ERP for supply chain planning, and whether other technologies may be a better fit.
- [The Four Types of Supply Chain Planning Organizations](https://arkieva.com/resources/supply-chain-planning-organizations/) - Choose the best-fit supply chain planning organization for your business. Explore several common structures and how to plan across different horizons.
- [The Benefits of Implementing a Differentated Forecast Strategy](https://arkieva.com/resources/demand-planning-differentiated-forecast-strategy/) - A framework for your planning system.
- [A Framework for Optimizing Railcar Management](https://arkieva.com/resources/optimizing-railcar-management/) - Reduce your total distribution costs by as much as 10%. Follow this framework for optimizing railcar management for the distribution of bulk products.
- [Using the Right Metrics to Improve Your Inventory Control](https://arkieva.com/resources/creating-a-better-inventory-control-process/) - Precisely monitor and manage how closely inventory matches demand. See how measuring inventory velocity, not just days of supply, can improve inventory control.
- [Improve Forecasting Despite Uncertain or Unreliable Forecasts From Customers](https://arkieva.com/resources/your-forecast-can-be-better-than-your-customers/) - Forget futile attempts to outguess your customers' purchases. Learn how aggregating customers together at the product level can improve your forecasting.
- [The History of Supply Chain Planning](https://arkieva.com/resources/a-history-of-supply-chain-planning-in-the-process-industry/) - Address the challenges of implementing supply chain planning (SCP) in your business. Learn the history and how techniques evolved over the years.
- [The Evolution of Order Promising Solutions](https://arkieva.com/resources/atp-aatp-ctp-and-ptp-order-commitment-alphabet-soup/) - Achieve the most cost-effective approach to order promising. Start with an understanding of the varying levels of commitment support - ATP, AATP, CTP and PTP.
- [Supply Chain Optimization Lessons From Working With a Process Manufacturer](https://arkieva.com/resources/one-link-at-a-time-a-supply-chain-success-story-for-a-process-industry/) - Optimize your supply chain to foresee service problems before they impact customers. Explore takeaways from our work with a process manufacturer.
- [The Limitations of Excel For Supply Chain Planning](https://arkieva.com/resources/whats-wrong-with-excel-for-supply-chain-planning/) - Make your planners more productive with the right technology. See the shortcomings of Excel files for supply chain planning and the benefits of other solutions.
- [A Roadmap for Installing Supply Planning Scheduling Processes and Software](https://arkieva.com/resources/a-roadmap-for-installing-a-successful-scheduler/) - Installing a supply planning scheduler can simplify the scheduling process. Follow this approach for a successful process and software solution implementation.
- [Creating a Competitive Advantage by Implementing S&OP](https://arkieva.com/resources/making-your-supply-chain-a-competitive-advantage-implementing-sop/) - Discover how proper sales and operations planning can give you a leg up. Follow these five steps for successfully implementing an S&OP process.
- [FAQ: Understanding the Basics of Supply Chain Planning](https://arkieva.com/resources/frequently-asked-questions-about-planning/) - Enhance your supply chain planning knowledge. Access answers to some of the most frequently asked questions we get about effective supply chain management.
- [Why is Business Intelligence Useful in Supply Chain Management?](https://arkieva.com/resources/business-intelligence-and-supply-chain-management/) - Leverage business intelligence in supply chain management to improve data visibility and analysis. Learn about current developments and future implications.
- [Understanding the Truth and Debunking Myths Behind ERPs and Planning Systems](https://arkieva.com/resources/erp-and-planning-facts-and-fallacies/) - Reap the benefits of suppy chain planning technology with or without an ERP system. Consider these facts and myths about integrating planning systems.
- [Truly Integrated Supply Chain Planning Involves These 10 Stakeholders](https://arkieva.com/resources/the-real-supply-chain-planning-process/) - Align your supply chain planning process to address goals across your business functions. Read about 10 groups of stakeholders who should be involved.
- [Six Steps for Supply Chain Planning Implementation](https://arkieva.com/resources/improving-your-supply-chain-where-do-you-start/) - Optimize your supply chain to drive profitability. Access these six supply chain planning implementation steps for a structured improvent framework.
- [Deciding Which Historical Data You Should Use to Forecast Demand](https://arkieva.com/resources/sales-versus-shipments-as-historical-basis-for-forecasting/) - Calculate the most accurate demand projection. See when to use sales or shipments as historical data to forecast demand and when other inputs are a better fit.
- [How to Manage Demand Forecasting Uncertainty Without "Locking" Forecasts](https://arkieva.com/resources/forecasting-fallacy-locking-a-piece-of-a-forecast/) - Locking a piece of your forecast can have more negative impacts than you'd expect. Discover how you can manage demand forecasting uncertainty without locking.
- [Understand How Supply Chain Management Can Impact Your Financials](https://arkieva.com/resources/supply-chain-planning-affect-financials/) - Lower manufacturing and distribution costs and drive financial performance. Discover how supply chain management and technology can help increase revenue.
- [Five Ways to Improve Your Demand Forecast Accuracy](https://arkieva.com/resources/the-holy-grail-for-supply-chain-planning-an-accurate-forecast/) - Allocate resources and purchase commitments more effectively and improve inventory management. Discover five ways to improve your demand forecast accuracy.
- [Pulse Alerts & Notifications for Proactive Supply Chain Monitoring](https://arkieva.com/resources/pulse-alerts-notifications/) - Get ahead of supply chain disruptions. Create a supply chain monitoring system with alerts and notifications to prioritize and proactively manage issues.
- [S&OP Software Selection – 8 Essential Software Requirements](https://arkieva.com/resources/sop-software-selection-8-essential-software-requirements/) - Know what capabilities and characteristics to look for when selecting an S&OP software. Access the S&OP software selection guide to specify key requirements.
- [How to Calculate Safety Stock and Evaluate Different Methods Part 2](https://arkieva.com/resources/calculate-safety-stock-evaluate-different-methods-part2-webinar/) - The topic of safety stock generates a lot of interest, discussion, and often, confusion.
- [How to Calculate Safety Stock and Evaluate Different Methods Part 1](https://arkieva.com/resources/calculate-safety-stock-evaluate-different-methods-webinar/) - According to a survey by Gartner, 89% of CSCOs believe that we are in a prolonged VUCA* environment.
- [Gartner 2023 NA Supply Chain Planning Summit](https://arkieva.com/resources/gartner-supply-chain-planning-summit/) - Tomorrow’s Resilience is Built Today
- [Technology Solutions for Integrated Business Planning (IBP)](https://arkieva.com/resources/one-plan-sop-management-solutions/) - Create a synchronized integrated business planning process with a one-plan technology solution. A centralized, configurable database for collaborative planning.
- [Three Stages of Obsolescence Management for Supply Chain Planning Technology](https://arkieva.com/resources/3-stages-digital-transformation/) - Understand when to replace supply chain planning software to prevent gradual declines from becoming major gaps. Learn more about obsolescence management.
- [Optimize Your Supply Chain at Gartner Supply Chain Symposium | Xpo](https://arkieva.com/resources/optimize-supply-chain-gartner-supply-chain-symposium/) - Arkieva to exhibit and present at annual Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo™
- [IBF's S&OP and IBP Global Conference](https://arkieva.com/resources/ibf-sop-and-ibp-global-conference/) - Arkieva Sponsors Annual IBF Conference
- [North American Supply Chain Executive Summit](https://arkieva.com/resources/north-american-supply-chain-executive-summit/) - The Must-attend Event for Supply Chain Executives
- [CSCMP EDGE Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition](https://arkieva.com/resources/edge-supply-chain-conference-exhibition/) - We look forward to speaking with you at the edge conference. See us at Booth 135.
- [IBF Business Planning, Forecasting and S&OP/IBP: Best Practices Conference](https://arkieva.com/resources/ibf-best-practices-conference/) - The World’s Leading Demand Planning, Forecasting and S&OP Conference
- [A Practical Guide to Building a Business Case for Digital Supply Chain Transformation](https://arkieva.com/resources/a-practical-guide-for-building-a-business-case-for-digital-supply-chain-transformation/) - Get help building the business case for your digital supply chain transformation. Demonstrate how supply chain planning tech enhances business performance.
- [What Makes Your Supply Chain Effective?](https://arkieva.com/resources/what-makes-your-supply-chain-effective/) - The pressures to gain efficiencies in a modern supply chain are tremendous.
- [A Practical Guide for Implementing Integrated Business Planning (IBP)](https://arkieva.com/resources/practical-guide-implement-ibp-webinar/) - Are you considering implementing an IBP process?
- [Building the ROI Case for Inventory Planning](https://arkieva.com/resources/building-roi-case-inventory-planning/) - Businesses spend a lot of time and money on improving their supply chain planning. Proving the ROI is essential to ensure that investments show value and technology continues to evolve with the market.
- [How to Calculate Safety Stock: Pros and Cons of Different Methods](https://arkieva.com/resources/calculate-safety-stock-pros-cons-different-methods/) - As companies progress through their growth journey, they go through transformations in how they plan their safety stock.
- [Demand Planning by Segmentation-based Exceptions](https://arkieva.com/resources/demand-planning-segmentation-based-exceptions/) - All demand is not created equal.
- [How Forecastable is Your Data?](https://arkieva.com/resources/how-forecastable-is-your-data/) - Having access to an accurate forecast is very beneficial for businesses.
- [Rules-based Approach to Supply Planning: Matching Assets with Demand Webinar](https://arkieva.com/resources/rules-based-approach-supply-planning-webinar/) - The holy grail of supply chain planning
- [5 Steps to a Global Collaborative Demand Planning Process Webinar](https://arkieva.com/resources/5-steps-to-global-collaborative-demand-planning-process-webinar2022/) - Can you fail to predict demand even with a sophisticated statistical forecasting solution?
- [Building the ROI Case for Demand Planning](https://arkieva.com/resources/building-roi-case-demand-planning/) - Businesses spend a lot of time and money in improving their demand planning.
- [Managing Supply Chain Transformation Beyond IT](https://arkieva.com/resources/managing-supply-chain-transformation-beyond-it/) - senior leadership engagement, business process analysis, and the proper communication will ensure that your project is a successful one.
- [Exploring the Self-healing Capabilities](https://arkieva.com/resources/exploring-the-self-healing-capabilities-of-an-automated-supply-chain-system/) - Of an Automated Supply Chain System
- [Supply Chain Optimization in Supply Planning](https://arkieva.com/resources/supply-chain-optimization-in-supply-planning/) - How to Develop a New Way of Thinking
- [Using What-If Scenarios to Improve Forecasts For New Products](https://arkieva.com/resources/using-what-if-scenarios-to-improve-forecasts-for-new-products-lessons-learned-from-the-popeyes-chicken-sandwich-shortage/) - Lessons Learned From the Popeye’s Chicken Sandwich Shortage
- [How to Use What-if Scenarios](https://arkieva.com/resources/how-to-use-what-if-scenarios-to-create-a-dynamic-ibp-paradigm/) - To Create A Dynamic IBP Paradigm
- [The Connection Between Finance and Supply Chain Performance to a Firm’s Financial Success](https://arkieva.com/resources/the-connection-between-finance-and-supply-chain-performance-to-a-firms-financial-success/) - To a Firm’s Financial Success
- [A Practical Guide for Improving Sales and Operation Planning](https://arkieva.com/resources/a-practical-guide-for-improving-sales-and-operation-planning/) - Considering to embark on S&OP improvement?
- [Building the Business Case for Sales and Operation Planning](https://arkieva.com/resources/building-the-business-case-for-sales-and-operations-planning/) - Two approaches for your next S&OP improvement project
- [Six Practical Approaches to Supply Chain Transformation and Systems Implementation](https://arkieva.com/resources/six-practical-approaches-to-supply-chain-transformation-and-systems-implementation/) - How to carry out a supply chain transformation project
- [How to Create an Integrated Stocking Policy](https://arkieva.com/resources/how-to-create-an-integrated-stocking-policy-for-your-organization-through-arkieva/) - For your Organization through Arkieva
- [How to Improve Your Inventory Management Process](https://arkieva.com/resources/how-to-improve-your-inventory-management-process-with-effective-measurements-and-kpis/) - With Effective Measurements and KPIs
- [Bridging the Gap](https://arkieva.com/resources/bridging-the-gap-between-finance-and-supply-chain-teams/) - Between Finance and Supply Chain Teams.
- [Statistical Forecast Improvements Through Method and Parameter Selections](https://arkieva.com/resources/statistical-forecast-improvements-through-method-and-parameter-selections/) - The Arkieva forecasting approach
- [Striking the Balance Between Over-Stocking and Under-Stocking](https://arkieva.com/resources/striking-the-balance-between-over-stocking-and-under-stocking/) - How to use the Arkieva Inventory Planner
- [A Five-Step Approach to a Global Collaborative Demand Planning Process](https://arkieva.com/resources/a-five-step-approach-to-a-global-collaborative-demand-planning-process/) - Can you fail to predict demand even with a sophisticated statistical forecasting solution?
- [Top Forecast Accuracy Dashboard KPIs to Track](https://arkieva.com/resources/top-forecast-accuracy-dashboard-kpis-to-track/) - What are the Top Forecast Accuracy KPIs that Your Dashboard Should Have?
- [Gaining a Competitive Advantage in Your Product Life Cycle Management Process](https://arkieva.com/resources/gaining-a-competitive-advantage-in-your-product-life-cycle-management-process/) - Reduce Time to Market. Create a Phaseout Plan.
- [Cost-to-Serve Logistics Analysis](https://arkieva.com/resources/cost-to-serve-logistics-analysis-where-should-i-build-the-new-warehouse/) - Where Should I Build the New Warehouse?
- [How to Create an Outside-In Approach to Demand Planning Using Social Listening Tools](https://arkieva.com/resources/how-to-create-an-outside-in-approach-to-demand-planning-using-social-listening-tools/) - What happens when a product positive social post goes viral?
- [How to Measure Supply Chain Performance Using KPI Tier-Based Thresholds](https://arkieva.com/resources/how-to-measure-supply-chain-performance-using-kpi-tier-based-thresholds/) - Reinvigorate Your KPIs with Tier-Based Alert Thresholds
- [How to Use Predictive Analytics to Drive Sales & Delight Your Customers](https://arkieva.com/resources/how-to-use-predictive-analytics-to-drive-sales-delight-your-customers/) - Are you leaving sales opportunities on the table? Can you do a better job building customer loyalty?
- [How to Improve Your Forecasts with the Arkieva Statistical Forecasting Tool](https://arkieva.com/resources/how-to-improve-your-forecasts-with-the-arkieva-statistical-forecasting-tool/) - Using the Arkieva statistical forecasting tool
- [The Power of Maps](https://arkieva.com/resources/the-power-of-maps-using-dashboard-mapping-capabilities-to-enhance-your-reporting-potential/) - Using dashboard mapping capabilities to enhance your reporting potential
- [Should I Optimize My Supply Chain Planning?](https://arkieva.com/resources/should-i-optimize-my-supply-chain-planning/) - When to and when NOT to use Optimization methods to better balance demand and supply.
- [4-Steps to Building a Planning Defense System](https://arkieva.com/resources/4-steps-to-building-a-planning-defense-system/) - Always putting out fires? Could you benefit from a more proactive planning process?
- [How to Avoid the Bullwhip Effect With B2B Demand Sensing](https://arkieva.com/resources/how-to-avoid-the-bullwhip-effect-with-b2b-demand-sensing/) - B2B Demand Sensing techniques
- [Watch the Signals!](https://arkieva.com/resources/watch-the-signals-how-to-create-supply-chain-performance-monitoring-system-that-doesnt-keep-you-up-at-night/) - How to Create Supply Chain Performance Monitoring System That Doesn’t Keep You Up at Night

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