Logility

MARCH 24, 2021

The power of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) comes in helping companies align financial, sales, production, procurement and marketing information into a single plan, grounded in modern-day reality. Down here on the ground where real people are trying to run real businesses, there’s little time for semantic subtleties.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence. Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. The Role of the Budget in S&OP.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

Has your company ever suffered problems with, implemented, or even considered implementing a sales and operations (S&OP) planning process? But what makes it so challenging to implement S&OP successfully? Why S&OP Needs a Lot of Human Investment. Who’s Who in the S&OP Process?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 7, 2012

Q: Is it only inventory disrupting the agility resulting from inaccurate forecasts by S&OP? Is it S&OP? Also, invest time in improving the cross-functional processes of revenue management, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and Supplier Development. Tips on Executing Agility Well.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 13, 2018

What is much easier to measure is cost — so that’s what drives the metrics and incentives.”[1] Gilmore cites a passage from a book entitled The Supply Chain Revolution written by Suman Sarkar, CEO of Three S Consulting. Horizontal (versus Vertical) Process Excellence. ” Let’s face it.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 5, 2021

What’s Normal Anyways? They use advanced ERP software and S&OP strategy to match supply with demand, and turn over inventory faster and faster. Case in point: research firm Gartner includes the speed of inventory turns as a key metric in its annual Top 25 List recognizing companies for their excellence in Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear. They also enable the evaluation of networks for both sales and procurement relationships to optimize the flows upstream and downstream. I believe that it matters.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

Here’s some research on this topic. So, my answer would be the single biggest supply chain problem is forecasting accuracy as part of S&OP. Also, Gartner says that sales and operations planning (S&OP) is the single, most-important and critical cross-functional process.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

Building supply chain resilience isn’t a new goal, but it’s become a primary focus for supply chain leaders in the wake of the pandemic crisis, particularly in the hardest-hit industries, such as food and beverage. It’s also becoming law, from pharmaceutical serialization to US FDA food safety.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2016

…for 8:00 AM strategy meeting(s) with clients.) To use the Barnes example, in this blog post, let’s focus on simplicity. Let’s start with a definition. Companies with a deep focus on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) will often default to this definition. What is integrated planning?

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Despite the apparent complexities involved in supply chain management, achieving excellence really doesn’t have to be too difficult. In this post, we explain what those pillars are, why they matter, and how to align them in a way that supports supply chain management excellence. The Importance of Alignment.

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Kinaxis

MAY 18, 2016

Procurement might have hit their cost savings metrics, but if it meant purchasing more than needed, and that might hurt your warehouse inventories. The S&OP process 3-4 years ago didn’t lean on that as much as it does now. Or do you think Supply Chain professionals should just go on being quietly excellent?

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 20, 2021

As we are often asked about KPIs for inventory management , that’s what we’re going to focus on in this particular post. The one thing they all have in common is that, under the right circumstances, they are more than merely valuable metrics. The inventory turns KPI is the metric that provides this information.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 10, 2019

To help you determine what tactics, processes, technologies and practices are a must-have in a winning supply chain strategy, we reached out to a panel of supply chain professionals and asked them to answer this question: “What’s the single most effective way to create a winning supply chain strategy?”

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

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