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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

He discussed the adoption of the steam engine and the electric motor in the manufacturing sector. Today, we take these technologies for granted, but the electric motor was the genesis of the horizontal manufacturing plant. Software planning was in the middle of a hype cycle. ” I thought. I wanted to catch-up.

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

The key point is that I have spent a lot of my working life focused on the value generated by more advanced planning solutions. I was on a call last week with a large company in the food and beverage space that has spent $100s of millions, and many years, on an ERP deployment. Now they want to deploy an S&OP process.