Demand management customer named a rock star of the supply chain
St. louis--(business wire)--demand management, inc., a leading global resource for cloud-based supply chain management solutions, announced today that brian moynihan, director of sales and operations planning at its client company blommer chocolate, has been named a 2019 food logistics champions: rock star of the supply chain. this is the second consecutive year a demand management nominee has received this award. the food logistics champions: rock stars of the supply chain award recognizes influential individuals in the food industry whose achievements, hard work, and vision have shaped and attained milestones in safety, efficiency, productivity, and innovation throughout the global food supply chain. under moynihan’s guidance, blommer has been using the dsx™ demand planning and collaboration tools to drive joint ownership of the demand plan across its sales and demand planning teams. each month, dsx collaboration helps the sales team adjust its forecast for “a” items and influence the accuracy of this metric by partnering with the supply chain team to drive forecast accuracy. “with collaboration, we can use data from the sales team to drive the desired business outcomes such as stock programs, lower lead-times, etc. while building deeper, more meaningful relationships with our sales team,” said moynihan. blommer also uses dsx collaboration to increase visibility in critical niche areas of the business where they want to drive specific supply chain strategies such as reduced lead times and stock programs. “we extend our sincere congratulations to brian moynihan and his team at blommer chocolate for earning this tremendous honor,” said bill harrison, president of demand management, inc. “this is exactly the kind of collaboration and shared accountability that demand solutions dsx is designed to support. we hope that more and more companies in the food industry will follow blommer’s example as they look for ways to increase forecast accuracy while reducing costs.” about food logistics food logistics is published by ac business media, a business-to-business media company that provides targeted content and comprehensive, integrated advertising and promotion opportunities for some of the world’s most recognized b2b brands. its diverse portfolio serves the construction, logistics, supply chain and other industries with print, digital and custom products, events and social media. about demand management, inc. demand management, inc. is the leading global provider of the demand solutions® software-as-a-service (saas) supply chain planning software. these affordable, easy-to-use solutions for manufacturers and distributors are designed to increase forecast accuracy, improve customer service levels, and reduce overall inventory to maximize profits and lower costs. designed to run on azure, a cloud service from microsoft, the demand solutions dsx supply chain planning solution offers functionality for demand optimization, supply optimization, manufacturing optimization, integrated business planning/sales and operations planning, team collaboration, retail optimization, and data visualization. demand management has worked with supply chain professionals for over 30 years and has incorporated their best practices and real-world business requirements into its software. the company’s extensive customer base across 81 countries includes siemens healthcare, automationdirect.com, and newfoundland labrador liquor corporation. demand management is a wholly owned subsidiary of logility, inc., which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of american software, inc. 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