The story of the spread of the Demand Driven Adaptive Enterprise DDAE model in France began in 2008, when the APICS (now ASCM) magazine published Carol Ptak's article "Brilliant vision, set your sights on responsive scheduling", subtitled "Managing capacity and materials: how to meet the synchronization challenge"
. Its primary process: DDMRP (Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning) is described in 2011 in the 3rd edition of the book by Joseph Orlicky, the inventor of MRP calculation in 1975: "Orlicky's MRP"
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In France, it was the Purchasing-supply chain group of the Centraliens association, with which the Fapics association (now AfrSCM) has been working closely since 2011 as part of a Think Tank, that published the first text on DDMRP in its December 2013 review. It ends with this prediction: "DDMRP, a marriage between lean and MRP, combining power and simplicity, is a real paradigm shift. It promises to be a major revolution in the industrial management of companies"
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Since 2013, most of the presentations and publications describing the formalization stages of the model have been launched in France, culminating in January 2022 with the book: "Adaptive Sales and Operations Planning"
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Why in France? Because AfrSCM's business model has enabled us to put...