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Our services deliver both immediate planning improvements and long-term holistic transformation.
With a core philosophy centered around deeply understanding your business and planning requirements, our expert IDSP practitioners will work closely with your team to identify gaps and key opportunities, develop roadmaps for planning transformation, employ market-leading analytics techniques and data visualization, and improve your planning processes and technology solutions to help you maximize the value you deliver to your organization.
Chainalytics’ Demand services help you understand the characteristics and drivers of your demand, enhance your forecasting processes, select and optimize your use of enabling tools and technology, and leverage leading analytical approaches in order to help you improve your forecast accuracy, raise your service levels, manage your portfolio, and maximize your return on planning effort. Learn more ➜
Chainalytics’ Inventory services help you set inventory targets, raise fill rates and on-time in-full (OTIF) performance, and optimally position raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods inventory throughout your supply chain network for minimum total cost to serve and highest return on invested capital. Learn more ➜
Chainalytics’ Supply Planning services help you achieve your inventory, product availability and service targets through optimized replenishment, fulfillment, allocation and/or advanced production planning and scheduling. Learn more ➜
Chainalytics’ Sales & Operations Planning and Integrated Business Planning services help you synchronize processes and plans between Operations, Supply Chain, Finance and Business Management. Learn more ➜
Our services will be tailored to your needs, and we take a case-by-case approach to solutioning, leveraging our extensive expertise and track record of success to quickly develop the fit-for-purpose approach which will serve your needs the best. Among many others, we frequently help companies answer the following commonly asked questions:
Instantiate, Implement, Identify, Improve, Integrate, Intervene. Chainalytics Integrated Demand and Supply Planning (IDSP) services enable a wide variety of outcomes and employ a fit-for-purpose paradigm in working with your objectives. We can help you instantiate and implement new processes and technology, identify and improve your existing processes, methodologies, and organization, integrate disconnected activities, incentives, and plans. And, if you find yourself in a Planning crisis, with customer service levels crashing, we can bring to bear our team of Intervention experts to help you turn your business around before lasting damage is done.
Chris concurrently serves as Chief Scientist for Chainalytics and the Executive Director of MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics. At Chainalytics, Chris pioneered the Freight Market Intelligence Consortium which he presently co-leads.
In his role as Executive Director of the Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is responsible for the planning and management of the research, education, and corporate outreach programs for the center to include the Supply Chain Exchange and the Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) graduate program. He is also the founder of the MIT FreightLab – a research initiative that focuses on improving the way freight transportation is designed, procured, and managed. Prior to joining MIT, Chris held senior management positions in supply chain consulting, product development, and professional services at several companies, including Logistics.com, SABRE, and PTCG.
Chris holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Transportation and Logistics Systems, a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI).
Inam leads the global Freight Market Intelligence Consortium (FMIC) at Chainalytics. In this role, he develops intelligence solutions for the transportation market using machine learning and data visualization techniques. FMIC offers unparalleled visibility to transportation rates and market data across the globe, making it the most powerful and trusted source of freight market intelligence.
Prior to joining Chainalytics, Inam led the engineering team at Transplace, a third party logistics provider, where he developed and innovated such service offerings as network optimization, site selection, procurement, and transportation optimization. These services helped many shippers balance the cost and service trade-offs across their large, complex networks.
Inam holds a Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas in Applied Operations Research, a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Oklahoma State University.