Shout out to the Graybar Team:
While we have several companies with multiple regular submitters, no one beats the Demand Planning team at Graybar! Here are their submittals for this contest, which as usual were excellent, producing at a couple of contest winners in the past.
"WOW! I didn’t even know we had a Demand Planning Group…"
Joel Wilmarth
Who notes, "Sorry, as a DP Supervisor, I couldn’t resist."
"We backed off the quantity of Elmos to make room for the Kindles."
George Crawford
"Explain to me again what the "Holiday forecast model" is and why it was off by 35% from last year."
Sue B. Brittain
"So, you want people to believe in you too?"
Daniel Edwards
Other Excellent Entries
"It’s not the toys that are a problem, it’s all those darn batteries!"
Marc Schmitt
EJ Gallo
"I preferred it when the children wrote me letters instead of Tweeting."
Brian Hayden
Dromtacker Institute of Technology
“No, I’m not kidding. You can’t just use last year’s deliveries to decide what to make this year.”
Carol Haines
Chelsea Milling Company
"I took a look - load up on Coal."
Dale Stout
"With this finally in place, we can stop the Gift Card experiment."
Marly Hazen
CTSI-Global
"What's the use? Nobody believes in me or demand planning."
Bill Russo
“All this technology, and you still can’t tell me who’s been Naughty or Nice?”
Jim Higgins
"We are short of product because the new forecasting software thought the spike at the end of December was an outlier and reduced the forecast?"
Jeff Chaussee
Medtronic
“Now is not the time to discover a forecast error!”
Duane (Dewey) Stevens CPM, CPIM, CSCP
Fox Valley Technical College
"Apparently it’s my fault for not approving the funds for a back-up server."
Greg Mack
Best Buy
“NOW you are telling me it’s constrained??
Jeff Givens
Best Buy
"You know we don’t freeze the December forecast this early!”
Joe Oliver
Nice Pak
"Stop looking at me. I have no idea either."
Jason Garrick
"You know our policy is no Less-Than-Sleighload shipping!!
Ron Wheeler
Storck
"You elfies go ahead and just plan “what?” and “how many?” I will take care of the “when."
Enrique Crapanzano
Dell
“We produced to Marketing’s forecasts, but now they’re telling us, 'The kid is always right.'”
Sean Schubert
Newell
"The new, multi-variable Naughty/Nice algorithm reduced our inventory by 23%."
Steve Hopper
Inviscid Consulting
"Recheck your algorithms - the demand spike clearly did not move to March!"
Deanna K. Peters
Printpack
“Really, that many Snuggies?”
Mark Fralick
ROI Solutions
“Nice is up 10% and naughty is down 5%?!!! Why didn’t you bring this up at the Demand Review??”
Madhav Durbha, Ph.D.
JDA Software
"The good news is, I know what they want for Christmas now. The bad news is, I have no idea what an algorithm is."
Dennis Macdonald
Georgia Pacific
“I remember when all these demands used to be polite requests.”
Jack Villecco
Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P.
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