#Demand Management

[neilsblog]

Beyond Forecasting: Integrating Supply Chain Planning Systems with Business Strategy

In today’s fast-paced global market, businesses face the constant challenge of managing the complex flow of goods, services, and information across their supply chains. The ability to balance dynamic demand with supply is crucial to staying competitive and profitable. This is where Supply Chain Planning (SCP) systems come into play—powerful software solutions designed to streamline operations,…

[sticksandsharks]

Egret Nurse

design from The Wildercourt (a graphic novel I am working on and hope to have finished in 2025)

[poon-nropay]

Nothing gets you out of a year-long burnout like falling head over heels for fictional characters.

well, here are the sea grunkles. :)

[ID: art of Stan and Ford from Gravity Falls, aboard the Stan O' War 2. Stan is gazing over the side of the boat, grinning and glancing at Ford out of the corner of his eye. Ford's behind Stan, and talking excitedly, as he holds up a map. The sky behind them is blue. End ID.]

Twitter | Bluesky

[shutupineedtothink]

Hey, hey Amazon, hey— in a post Rhuidean world, can we just go ahead and renew wheel of time for the remaining 5 seasons? I think we��ve definitely arrived now so we gotta get this show on the road baby. We gotta shoot at least the next three seasons back to back in the next year and a half. Ain’t nobody gettin younger out here. Chop chop let’s go 👏👏

[mercuryflan]

Had to lock in for the performative exam

can't think of plot driven stuff rn, only blobs doin stuff

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

Reader who is popular around Liyue and Legacy who is jealous and wants all their attention.

he just wants your love so bad and he is attention and touch starved,,,,

Foul Legacy practically huffs, more flowers in your hands, gifts from friends and even a few admirers that you place casually in a vase. he knows you're well liked around the city, your kind yet firm demeanor garnering you many acquaintances and friends, and he's happy for you. but he also wants attention. your attention, specifically- he wants your eyes on him, your hands scritching behind his horns or combing his fluff in that wonderful way of yours. he wants it all for himself, only watching him- just for a little bit! even Legacy knows you have responsibilities and obligations, so he won't ask for much. really, he won't. one day just for you and him, and then you can go back to doing work or helping people with things

so, one morning, Legacy does his usual chittering greeting when you awake, and refuses to get off of you. he's smart about it, choosing a weekend and a day he KNOWS you don't have anything planned prior, simply snuggling his heavy head on your stomach with a smug purr. you sigh, leaning back onto the pillow when it becomes very clear that he's not going anywhere. Legacy's rumbles only increase, overjoyed and snuggling happily against you as he lets out little trills and coos. finally, FINALLY he has you all to himself. he's curled around you all day, even when you finally do get up. either flopped over you in bed or on the couch or nuzzling his head against yours as you make tea. he pulls you, gently, into his nest of blankets, tucking the quilts and covers around you until you're comfortably snug, crooning softly and settling down to bask in your presence and simply live

[tizeline]

Have the brothers or drax tried hurting April between the time she was with Donnie?

I think they figured out really quickly that if they give April as much as a scratch Donnie will go absolutely NUCLEAR on them, so yeah no they tend to just avoid her as much as possible so they don't risk upsetting Donnie lol

[ducktracy]

also i need to NOT APOLOGIZE FOR THIS because the only one realistically breathing down my neck about this is myself. BUT. just to clear my conscience. APOLOGIES reviews have been so slow 🙏 i've been feeling like the equivalent of these two gifs simultaneously the past few days (but also kinda loving it). i do really want to churn more out beyond the accidental "one a month" pace i have right now, but life has been very busy even beyond breathlessly shilling pigs and ducks, and, also, my reviews are so much more big in scope than they once were. quality over quantity etc. i assume nobody is tapping their watch going "WHERE'S MY REVIEW OF THE HEP CAT YOU CRETIN" but i just wanted to say thank you just in case 🫡

[faggotisaacfloofs]

hello everyone be so fucking proud of me!!!

I had two infuriating AAC glitches in a row while trying to convey a stressful thing to my caregiver today

After the first one, I stopped, closed my eyes, and took 5 deep breaths, relaxed my muscles, and then started typing again, ver, very intentionally and slowly.

And then the second glitch happened.

and i managed to freeze instead of hitting my ipad. And took a few breaths totally frozen with hands up. then made the sign to caregiver to move the ipad away from me so I wouldn't break it

And then i took more deep breaths, and flapped my arms as hard as my joints can stand, and took more deep breaths. And got out my phone instead to text my caregiver because my phone doesn't glitch like that, and told them what happened and finished making the plan for next week.

And then i remembered that if i stop using the touch screen and type with my Bluetooth keyboard, my ipad doesn't glitch. So I grabbed that and then could type into my ipad while not being close enough to smash the ipad if something went wrong. And it worked.

I had TWO ipad glitches deleting what I was trying to say less than 30 seconds apart. But I didn't break or throw or hit my ipad!!!! I didn't smash my keyboard or hit my head or anything. I breathed and I tried my strategies of time, waiting for the wave to pass, and that let me remember other options for communication exist.

I still feel like I'm on the verge of a meltdown, but the point is that i did not immediately have a meltdown from this or break anything, and that is very hard skill i have been working so much on for a very long time.

please clap!!!

[nenoname]

seeing discussions on whether bill could trick stan and yeah it is pretty akldhkasjdha to think stan is untrickable when the last regular ep is him getting tricked by darlene (and we know that eda/"marilyn" stole his stuff/almost got his car by tricking him with a vegas marriage)

[campbyler]

ik part of it is that life and work just Be Like That sometimes, but every time i check back on your blog it seems yall are going through chronic ao3 author syndrome. sending love and good vibes your way i hope all three of you are doing ok and can catch a break soon!! (ik suni and thea yall are the ones writing the rest of it but sending love to andi as well)

also any tips on writing longer chapters without them sounding like they’re dragging on? i’m a (more casual) fic writer and my chapters always end up a little shorter than i usually hope they’d be

awake at 3am in a fit of jet lag and laughed aloud upon reading this bc you’re not wrong 😭 i feel like part of it is just timing, like thea’s work has a big busy season during the fall every year and her schedule also varies week by week and even day to day so i know some stretches are more difficult than others by default (rn she has been having to work from home on her weekend or after she clocks out which has been extra rough). my work tends to have bursts of insane work days every few weeks or so, and i just have a shitty daily commute on top of that and will sometimes get home like 12 hours after i left in the morning or something. so honestly there is a nonzero chance one of us is having a subpar time on any given workday i fear, and that schedule is pretty unpredictable given the nature of our very full time jobs. i also think it’s just statistically more likely that when we are active there is a reason for our Grievances to be brought up, either organically because we are coming out of a slump and are complaining about the Horrors or because someone checked in on us in a period of absence and we are giving a quick update, but either way, thank you so much for your wishesssss! thea will be getting a break soon (thank god) and i’m actually entering a bit of a busy stretch at work for the next week or so because we have a grant deadline to meet, which always means 10000 last minute experiments that i have to work into my schedule in the middle of the week and it’s really fun and lovely and great. woo hoo. 🙂

as for chapter lengths, i wish i had more solid advice but my problem is genuinely that i can’t for the life of me seem to trim them down 😭 i guess a part of it is largely how your chapters are structured — i only have a couple chaptered fics outside of acswy, but all of them are planned so that each chapter is quite meaty in terms of content or what i want each scene to accomplish. i will say that the singular thing that consistently drives up my word count is DIALOGUEEEEE!!! a blessing when i’m in a rut or have writers block and am trying to get something down on the page, a menace when im editing a scene transition i left to fill in for later and my wc is right at 29k and im sweating watching the number tick up. i find there’s absolutely nothing wrong with shorter chapters if it’s accomplishing what you hope for and i honestly am working really hard on trying to be more concise, but i do find dialogue to be a good way to slow down a scene that’s maybe rushing or is paced a little quicker than you intended. real conversations often stray off topic, people ramble or get sidetracked or get interrupted by things they’re doing — i love describing people talking while doing chores or eating or whatever because you can break up the dialogue with bits of action — and at least for me, it’s a lot easier to work in some narration or description in with dialogue than it is to just write a couple paragraphs of it straight up, which also sometimes feels a little more blunt and Quick than i intend it to be. one thing we both do a Lot is script out dialogue between characters and then go back in to fill in things like speech tags, action descriptions, inner monologues and thoughts, etc. literally just like:

character 1: ___ character 2: _______ 1, (note on how it’s meant to be said or what they’re thinking/intending to say to cue us in later): _____ 2: _____________ (small description of them moving around/something happening in the background to give a visual for describing later)

so on and so forth. it helps a lot either when we want to establish the setup of a dialogue heavy scene before we forget our inspiration, or we’re feeling a bit too blocked to be able to write more descriptively at the moment, etc etc. it’s a really natural way to focus on the flow of conversation without getting caught up in transitions and repetition of dialogue tags and stuff, and usually is the culprit for a scene taking way longer to finish than expected for me.

all that being said, the times i have actually felt like a chapter is paced too quickly is usually either when the dialogue exchange is too fast and feels like the conversation could be more fleshed out, or maybe likeeee a transition happens a little too immediately and it reads a little bit like one thing happening after the next after the next without much of a pause for expansion. if you’ve managed to get your point across in fewer words and your main concern is driving up the word count, i really wouldn’t worry about it! you could always have someone look at it with a fresh pair of eyes and ask for places they feel could use more explanation or detail (maybe describing a setting more vividly? or giving more insight to some of their thoughts at a certain point?) but genuinely — conciseness is a Skill, and seeing how i have once again accidentally answered an ask with one million words, i’ll actually just trade you some of my internal word vomit right now. here you go -> 🎁

[rovermcfly]

okay so when I said "I'm taking this side gig as a museum tour guide to get my foot in the door and try to enter that field" I just said that so people would stop asking me what I'm gonna do with my life. I didn't think I would ACTUALLY be offered a proper job at the museum to do in combination with the tours so I can finally quit my current retail job. I thought I was lying when I said that! I didn't think I was manifesting!

[splattacks]

i think i found an exercise i enjoy doingim going to be the jump rope girl again just like i was back in middle school. i did that shit like it was nothing it was THE recess activity and i remember id lowkey be a showoff about it and i want to bring that energy back

[halfling-myth-lady]

How tf have I ricocheted into two Greek mythology fandoms that have no business being this good while still unfinished that I have also joined in the most convenient time plausible.