Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment

Overview

A look at state-of-the-art supply chain management.
"The process known as Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR) is supply chain management taken to the extreme. The first book to document this cutting-edge technique that's been adapted by companies like Wal-Mart, Pillsbury, and Procter and Gamble, Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment collects case studies and contributions by the foremost experts in the field to give readers an insightful introduction to this revolutionary new supply chain method.

The CPFR technique involves supply chain members sharing information in real time over the Internet, enhancing the collaborative dialogue between retailers and vendors. The process allows long- and short-term planning to happen instantaneously, as information is shared regarding forecasts, shipping and production, point-of-sale data, and order generation. Based on groundbreaking research done at Harvard Business School, this book shows anyone involved in long-term strategic planning how CPFR can be implemented -- quickly, successfully, and in almost any setting."

About the Author

Dirk Seifert (Hamburg, Germany) is a former director of the Bertelsmann e-Commerce Group and a former vice president with both Procter & Gamble and Bayer Pharmaceutical. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School.

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Table of Contents

"Foreword of The VICS-CPFR Committee

1. EFFICIENT CONSUMER RESPONSE AS THE ORIGIN OF CPFR

2. THE CPFR CONCEPT

Dirk Seifert: The CPFR Value Proposition

Gerhard Arminger: Sales and Order Forecasts in the CPFR Process for Retail

Joseph Andraski: CPFR Emerges as the Next Movement in Supply Chain Management

Julie Fraser: CPFR Status: Key Results of a Survey in the Consumer Goods Sector

3. CPFR IN NORTH AMERICA

Freidman and Belkin: Major Trends in North American CPFR Adoption

Lawrence E. Fennell: Consumer Centric CPFR

Christopher A. Brady: CPFR -- Views and Experiences at Safeway

Bastock, Baumann and Smith: CPFR Implementation at Ace Hardware and Manco

Frodsham, Miller and Mooney: CPFR Implementation at Canadian Tire and GlobalNetExchange

Andraski and Di Yeso: The Power of Standards-Based Collaboration - the Uniform Code Council & CPFR

4. CPFR IN EUROPE

Dirk Seifert: CPFR -- Ready to Take Off in Europe

Weisphal, Pfahler and Abolhassan: Results of a CPFR Study in Europe

Treeck and Seishoff: CPFR in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Baumgart, Ester and Schick: CPFR Implementation at dm-drogerie markt

Schick and Hambuch: CPFR Implementation at dm-drogerie markt and Procter & Gamble in Germany

Don Brenchley: CPFR Implementation at Londis in Great Britain

Duque, Garriga and Teuscher: CPFR Implementation at Henkel Spain

5. CPFR PERSPECTIVES AND ROADS TO IMPLEMENTATION

Bruce and Ireland: Migration to Value Chain Collaboration through CPFR

Dawn Russell: Integrating Collaborative Transportation Management and CPFR

Ralph Drayer: The Foundation Is in Place

Daren K. Fairfield: Avoiding CPFR Pitfalls in the Consumer Goods Industry

Stiely and Katz: Virtually Vertical: A Supply Chain Model for the Collaboration Era

Koch and Hausruckinger: On the Road to the Network Economy"

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