Travel Industry Demand Management

Paper Summary:

The paper attempts to apply the best practices of demand management to evaluate the benefits of bringing demand management and supply chain concepts into the travel industry. The paper explains how the travel industry requires the highest levels of supply chain integration and optimization possible.

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Executive Summary
The Many Benefits of integrating Demand Management and Supply Chain Concepts into Travel Industry
What's Needed is a Supply Chain Framework for Travel Industry

From the Paper:

"Competitiveness in all industries is a direct reflection of their supply chain efficiency, transparency, performance, and ultimately demand management. Each industry has varying degrees of transparency inherent in the formation and structure, operations, and transformation of its supply chains. The travel industry specifically has one of the most visible and easily evaluated supply chains and as a result, more accentuated and advanced approaches to demand management. What is one of the most challenging aspects of the travel industry supply chain is making it sustainable, reflecting the many demand management requirements on it."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Aberdeen Group, Practice on Supply Chain management Best Practices Program, Research Agenda 2006 - 2007.
• AMR Research, Best Practices in Supply Chain Performance. January 12, 2007. Kevin O'Marah. Boston, MA
• Gartner Group, Supply Chain Management best practices, 2006 - 2007.
• DDSN Roadmap: AMR Research Report. DDSN Framework. Boston, MA 2005
• ERP-Based Supplier Relationship Management, Part 2: How They Stack Up Against Best-of-Breed Applications, AMR Research Report. Boston, MA December 27, 2004

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