RedPrairie Thought Piece

February 17, 2010

The “Death” of DRP - Interview with Darryl Landvater, Co-founder RedPrairie Collaborative Flowcasting

Is distribution resource planning an outdated, or near obsolete, way to predict how much product will be needed, and when?

In recent months, many analysts and business administrators have noticed a change in how companies are forecasting demand for their products and necessary supplies. For many, this has led to a question of whether distribution resource planning (DRP) is an outdated, or near obsolete form of predicting how much product will be needed, and when. Darryl Landvater, co-founder of RedPrairie Collaborative Flowcasting, and co-author of Flowcasting The Retail Supply Chain, explains how the “death” of DRP might not be as near as it seems – even with current advances in both computer hardware and software.

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