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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #6

Supply Chain Trend

In the last 30 years S&OP improved performance in many businesses. However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. Worse, overall S&OP development and progress seems to have stalled.

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E2open Acquires Steelwedge. Impact on Market?

Supply Chain Shaman

Founded in 2000, Steelwedge was an innovator in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and was an early provider of cloud solutions for supply chain. ” The company’s press release rhetoric is bullish. ” I struggled to understand how a company focused just on S&OP could be viable.

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Intelligent IBP: A Need for Decision Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

This traditional IBP is not set up for a fast-changing world, where speed of decision making confers a competitive advantage. But it is good to remember that the early pioneers always designed S&OP, the predecessor of IBP, as an executive decision-making forum. Intelligent automation will change this.

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Intelligent IBP: A Need for Decision Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

This traditional IBP is not set up for a fast-changing world, where speed of decision making confers a competitive advantage. But it is good to remember that the early pioneers always designed S&OP, the predecessor of IBP, as an executive decision-making forum. Intelligent automation will change this.

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Intelligent IBP – a new role for supply chain planners

Supply Chain Trend

This traditional IBP is not set up for a fast-changing world, where speed of decision making confers a competitive advantage. But it is good to remember that the early pioneers always designed S&OP, the predecessor of IBP, as an executive decision-making forum. Intelligent automation will change this.

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Four Strategies What Worked

Supply Chain Shaman

I am unsure how many business teams I had the good fortune of working with, but a casual count nears 3,000 over 20 years with over 500 conference speaking opportunities. If you participate, I will gladly share your organization’s results.). The question was, “What mattered? Which strategy drove the most significant value??”

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Integrated Business Planning: A New Narrative for an Old Process

Supply Chain Trend

The monthly cycle of S&OP meetings has been the forum in which a firm’s forecasts have been presented and reconciled across functional areas. This traditional IBP is not set up for a fast-changing world, where speed of decision making confers a competitive advantage. The authors detailed a sequential S&OP cycle around a.