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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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Case Roberta Roller Rabbit: Increasing Performance Through Improved Process and Technology

RELEX Solutions

Launched in 2003, RRR has evolved into a lifestyle brand offering a plethora of products that are still printed, cut and sewn by hand in collaboration with artisans preserving ancient traditions. With the RELEX assortment planning solution, RRR has put assortment planning under ‘one roof’”. The hard work began. Right place, right time.

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

While MRP and S&OP were defined as early as the 1980s, these provided rough cut analysis at the aggregate level, nowhere near the level of detail that is possible today. The key point is that I have spent a lot of my working life focused on the value generated by more advanced planning solutions. She states that.

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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. If we look back over the history of supply-chain planning, we can properly say we are in the third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software (Van Hove, 2019).

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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

At the event, James Rice, MIT, spoke on innovation, and his reflections on Clayton Christensen’s 1997 classic business book, the Innovators Dilemma. Christensen’s concept is that businesses will reject innovation based on the fact that the customer cannot currently use the innovation delaying the adoption of great ideas.

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A Brief Look Back at Clayton Christensen’s Innovative Ideas

Enterra Insights

One of Professor Christensen’s greatest attributes was a curious mind. ” His search for answers motivated him to write The Innovator’s Dilemma. Ten years after The Innovator’s Dilemma was published, Jena Mcgregor ( @jenamcgregor ), wondered whether the book and its ideas really had staying power.[2]