Dr. Chockalingam

Covid-19 Epidemic The World has entered an unusual period in modern times – a large scale epidemic that is spreading like wildfire across the globe and leaving economies in shambles along with lost lives in a short period of time. Covid-19 imported from China into Europe and the Americas has already shut down many aspects of modern life – [...]

Demand Bull-whip With the advent of the Corona Virus in the USA, there is pandemonium in the economy besides the pandemic that is creating a lot of turbulence. The US Consumers are raiding the retail stores in a panic and buying anything they can. This shortage is demand induced – spike due to hoarding needs. Consumers are essentially moving [...]

Make Australia dirty again?! Toilet tissues are out of stock in Australia. Woolworth’s is rationing toilet tissues in that country. We are not far behind. Most online stores and bricks were out of toilet paper in the US. In a couple of months we may be rationing many products if China is not back online and shipping critical items [...]

Russians and the Saudis could not agree on output cuts for the oil markets so they decided to kill the US oil exploration companies. Oil dropped 30% over the weekend to $31 a barrel. Projections are it could hit $20 a barrel – adjusted for inflation it could be even free. The market is set to drop another 1000 [...]

Total reported cases are 90K as of this morning. Out of which more than half of those infected have recovered completely. About three thousand died or about 3.4% of the total. Keep in mind most of the deaths have been in the early days of this epidemic in China when they were not prepared fully. And 42K cases are [...]

Beginning October 25, 2019, Demand Planning.Net will be re-branding as Valtitude. We have proudly served our clients by providing usable solutions in Demand Planning and S&OP since our founding in 2004. In the last decade, we have expanded our offerings into broader areas of Supply Chain Management – Supply Network Planning, Production Planning, IBP, and Inventory Optimization – the [...]

Is your organization ready for IBP? How do we know that we are implementing this nifty solution that could NOT be used if the process and people are not ready? There could be a variety of parameters that could counter IBP readiness: 1. Lack of a process vision can make the IBP tool an expensive typewriter. 2. The Excel [...]

Some planners just are very proud of the fact that their business is complex – 20K SKUs, 20 DCs and thousands of customer sold-to locations. And when my team at Demand Planning LLC start mining the data, we find that invariably a good fraction of the SKUs never sold a single unit (or pound or kg or ounce) in [...]

What is the big fuss about Trade with China? In 2017 we imported $500B worth of products exported about $125B. Here is a trend of Trade deficits over the last 15 years. Yes our Trade Deficits have increased with China. The Chinese diligently supply us with inexpensive products and gadgets and earn USD as foreign currency which they invest [...]