The Art and Science of Merchandise Planning: How Technology and AI are Transforming the Process

Merchandise planning is a critical function in the retail industry that involves managing inventory levels, product mix, pricing strategies, and promotional events. The success of a merchandise plan can drive increased sales, enhance the customer experience, and optimize inventory turnover. In recent years, technology and AI have been transforming the merchandise planning process, making it …

Driving Business Success: The Crucial Role of FP&A Professionals in Strategic Planning and Decision-Making

In today’s business environment, organizations face complex challenges that require effective strategic planning and decision-making to achieve success. Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) professionals play a critical role in guiding strategic decision-making by providing insights and analysis to support key business initiatives. By aligning financial planning and analysis with broader organizational goals, evaluating investment opportunities, …

Demand Planning and Forecasting through Predictive Planning

The supply difficulty, deficiencies and scarcity of products that the pandemic brought into light make Supply Chain (SC) leaders comprehend the importance of being prepared to move beforehand from such crisis effects instead of responding to the disruptions caused whilst happening.  They see the importance of getting Demand Planning software to suit their requirements fully. …

Solving for spontaneous collaboration in the era of hybrid work

Over the decades Australian enterprises have spent countless billions buying and leasing workplaces, then carving them up into offices, open plan desk farms, meeting rooms, or communal workspaces. Regardless of the end result, the core idea was that these workplaces were designed to support workers who were physically present. The COVID-19 pandemic tossed that thinking …

The RoadMap to CISCO ACI – Whys and wherefores

Why CISCO ACI?? Indeed, This is still an unresolved technical question for some network engineers, managers, and even higher-ranking officials, who generally deal with CISCO products in their infrastructure; Why go for CISCO ACI? and What are the advantages of that. I’m going to accommodate these asks in the rest of this article. I believe …

Cloud-Native Observability in the Experience Economy

Cisco Launches AppDynamics Cloud to Enable the Delivery of Exceptional Digital Experiences Think about our lives over the last two years—more and more of what we do is online. We use more digital services than ever before, and hybrid work means more interaction with SaaS tools and web interfaces. We have very high expectations of …

The “Five Big Shifts”​ Coming Next to Clinical Trials

Many today are discussing how clinical trials will look differently after the pandemic. Innovative approaches that had been developed in recent years but were stalled in “experimentation” have been rapidly adopted over 2020 as pandemic counter-measures, and many organizations are now making commitments to embed these approaches into their clinical trial pipelines going forward. These …

RESOLVING THE EHR TECHNOLOGY BLAME GAME

The value-based care initiative ushered a fundamental push for healthcare providers to satisfy requirements for meaningful use incentives and HIT vendors’ to offer software focused on the interoperability of health information. At that point in time, pitfalls around the actual usability of EHRs were tolerated. Still, years later, a fragmented EHR and HIT system has …

Essential Considerations for CTMS Integrations and Data Migrations

Clinical research sites that are in the process of investigating clinical trial management system (CTMS) adoption are finding that the site CTMS space is in flux with mergers, discontinued products, and new start-ups looking to drive innovation. It can be challenging to focus on what’s important to each individual site as they evaluate the available …

CTMS Implementation Success: Top Five Steps to Keep You On Track

CTMS implementation success might seem not that easy, especially when utilizing this kind of software for the first time. In this case it is important to have a very well sketched plan that will help you with the initial steps to get everything in place. The beginning is the toughest part and this is the …