4. Pilot implementation
Each supply chain management solution has its own parameters and variables for action. It would be futile to attempt an exhaustive inventory of this information. With a degree of vocabulary imprecision, it is possible, for the two main families of logistics management systems, to define what can be used as an action variable for steering.
4.1 Steering the forecasting model
Whatever the forecasting model used, as we have already seen, forecasts are combined in a more or less precise model of the company and its environment, and applied to a current or initial situation, in order to deduce optimal future behavior and therefore the supplies to be produced. Piloting means acting on one of the elements of the system; however, most of the information used is operational...
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