7 Power BI Dashboards for Demand Planners (Step-by-Step)
“I’d love to use Power BI dashboards in my demand reviews, but I don’t know where to start.” I hear this all the time. Most demand planners use Excel. They see gorgeous Power BI screenshots on...
7 Power BI Dashboards for Demand Planners (Step-by-Step)
“I’d love to use Power BI dashboards in my demand reviews, but I don’t know where to start.” I hear this all the time. Most demand planners...
12 Supply Chain Acronyms You Should Actually Use
Supply chain acronyms are everywhere. They show up in emails, dashboards, meetings, and everyday conversations. As supply chain professionals, we want to learn them. But, knowing the definition...
From Excel Beginner to Expert: Level Up Your Game for Supply Chain Planning
Excel can be your best friend or your biggest nightmare.Most planners use it to collect data and make reports. Best planners go beyond that and do much more. Here’s how to go from “copy-paste...
All the Supply Chain Metrics You Need to Know
Metrics are helpful to focus on what matters. The right metrics lead to better performance and results.Below, I break down 28 essential metrics from Planning, Procurement, Operations, and Logistics,...
Top 10 Metrics for the Supply Planner
Metrics are critical. This applies especially to the busy supply planner juggling countless tasks and constant firefighting. The right metrics sharpen focus. They deliver results the business truly...
Excel Pivot Tables vs Power BI Dashboards in S&OP: What You Can Do Differently Tomorrow
S&OP is about making decisions faster and with confidence. If you’re a demand or supply planner, the tool you use shapes how you prepare and present your numbers. Let’s break down where Excel...
Excel for Demand Planners
Excel remains the most widely used planning tool. No debate there. Even with advanced planning systems in place, planners still download data into Excel for easier manipulation and analysis. Excel...
7 Simple Calculations in Inventory Planning that Cannot be wrong
We live and die by inventory in supply chain. Success depends on how we manage inventory. Failure depends on inventory too. Of course, there are factors that you cannot control. Supplier delays....
Excel Basics for Supply Chain
There is no time for mistakes in supply chain planning. Excel can be a good friend to improve productivity and save hours of manual work. I recently shared on LinkedIn an infographic with simple...
Excel Formulas Across the Supply Chain (For Beginners)
Excel is here to stay. This applies to demand and supply planning and to the whole supply chain. There is a constant battle with messy data. Multiple formats. Conflicting inputs. Complex...
A 7-Step, Highly-Actionable Playbook for Scenario Planning
Bad forecasts. Cocoa price spikes. Packaging shortages. Co-man downtime. So many other bad things can happen. Scenario planning allows companies to be more prepared. From “we didn’t see it coming”...
7 Demand Forecasting Techniques to Learn (with Excel Tips)
If you’ve ever walked into your favorite coffee shop craving an iced latte in a hot summer day, only to hear, “Sorry, we’re out of ice and oat milk”, you’ve experienced a bad forecast from the...
The 7 Supply Chain Metrics that Customers Really Care
99% of people associate supply chain with backend operations. And yes; there’s a significant amount of invisible work. But in today’s world, the customer is at the center of every modern supply...