Supply Chain Shaman
AUGUST 21, 2015
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is in a renaissance. With growth slowing and complexity rising, S&OP is more important than ever. It is not sexy, and it requires hard work; but the greatest value of S&OP is profitable growth. S&OP is moving to the cloud. The reason?
Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 15, 2012
I have read your report on S&OP technologies, and I have some questions.” His company made parts for the mining industry, and he was leading an S&OP process. He wanted to build depth in the S&OP process; but, he had not been able to convince his management team to purchase an S&OP technology.
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Supply Chain Shaman
AUGUST 11, 2014
Over the course of the last two years, we at Supply Chain Insight s have worked on a methodology to gauge supply chain improvement. We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During In our program, cost avoidance, while desirable, does not count towards the metric. We named it the Supply Chain Index.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 26, 2012
” At least, that’s what was promised. When you run the graphs, there is marked difference for these companies that begins to appear in 2009. My preference is monthly as part of the S&OP process.). In the modeling, my recommendation is to look at the cost metrics in aggregate. ” I smiled.
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 20, 2012
We are trying to understand how supply chain leaders have raised the bar at the intersection of these four sets of metrics on the supply chain effective frontier. Many would argue it’s because supply chains grew more complex. I also believe that it is because the organization is not incented to manage cash-to-cash metrics.
Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 6, 2015
In the process of compiling the Supply Chains to Admire report for last year’s Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , the research team at Supply Chain Insights calculated the rate of supply chain improvement of companies by industry for the period of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013. L’Oreal’s organization shifts as customers morph.
Arkieva
AUGUST 8, 2016
the “inventory to sales” ratio (inventory levels divided by a month’s worth of sales) spiked in late 2008/early 2009 as the recession caught companies with way more inventory than needed versus suddenly shrinking demand. “In the US economy, overall inventory levels have been ticking up in recent years.
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