Simon Eagle

United Kingdom United Kingdom

Senior SCM Consultant at SCALA Group

Logistics / Supply Chain

I work with companies that wish to make a step change improvement in their e2e SC & Operations performance by adopting the Demand Driven (DD) approach to replenishment & planning in place of the ubiquitous 'forecast push DRP/MRP'​ process. DD is: "a segmented multi-echelon supply chain re-order process featuring multiple positioned & planned, but independent, inventory locations that are replenished, in an efficient and stable sequence, to a calculated stock target in line with demand – not the forecast"​ The DD approach treats supply chains as what they really are: flows of materials through value add processes to customers that inevitably create cost generating buffers (inventory