Supply Chain Shaman

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Navigating The Snails Trail: Moving to Outside-in Planning Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

As a result, the use of market data (air quality, pollen types, and weather) was essential to hit a tight window with the right product. In the outside-in planning process, the data model output is refined and published to a series of networks. However, with the elongation of the tail as shown in Figure 1, the demand latency becomes months.

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What Does Good Look Like S&OP?

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This includes Slow and Obsolete Inventory (SLOB), returns, quality issues, and expired product. The non-forecastable flows need to be managed as an agile supply chain (designed to flex with demand and supply variability). Great S&OP processes recognize waste quickly and drive resolution. Not Paying Attention to Process Latency.

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Shouldn’t GenAI Mean New Gen?

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The translation of ripple effects of short supply, pricing, quality issues, and freight shifts affects how to source, make, and deliver processes should align. Shortening the cycle for demand insights is a powerful use case. Sensing and Proactive Alerting. The complexities in a supply chain loom large.

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Dancing in the Ring of Fire

Supply Chain Shaman

Instead, the techniques need to focus on agility (the design of the supply chain for reliable cost, quality and customer service) given the level of variability. For example, typically growth items–new product launch and special products–cannot be managed as an efficient supply chain. Make Anne Successful.

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Supply Chain Normalcy? Think Again.

Supply Chain Shaman

A planning master data layer measures and tracks shifts in lead times, conversion rates, and quality. Train teams to model variability and build a planning master data layer to understand layers of variability. (A Feed the adaptive modeling environment market planning master data.) Side-step large-scale digital transformation projects.

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AGCO: Driving a Digital Manufacturing Transformation

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The final factory inspection quality teams disliked having to get off of the large pieces of equipment to complete inspection lists on a computer. Glass-equipped operators now follow quality check-lists that are tailor-made for the type of unit they are inspecting. Quality of Conformation. Built-In Assembly Work Instructions.

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Mourning the Death of the Data-Driven Supply Chain Guy

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We brainstormed on using images for port unloading lead times, crop yield projections, manufacturing quality, and corporate sustainability issues. Joe, a leader in the agricultural industry, spoke of images to solve supply chain problems.