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Lassoing S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

To align S&OP. As companies transitioned from regional to multi-national organizations, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes proliferated. The average company has seven S&OP processes, but a global chemical company averages over 30. Businesses are different. Reporting Structure.

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Lassoing S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

To align S&OP. As companies transitioned from regional to multi-national organizations, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes proliferated. Today, the average company has seven S&OP processes, but a global chemical company averages over 30. Each defining S&OP differently.

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Happy Labor Day! Insights on Building Supply Chain Talent

Supply Chain Shaman

Labor day also signals the end of summer, and for many supply chain leaders the beginning of 2017 strategy discussions and intense S&OP debates to finalize Q3 and Q4 planning. Analytics Techniques for Supply Chain 2030. Can you organization adequately discuss how you are going to build 2030 strategies?

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

IBP can support a company’s vision by positively influencing its values and behaviors, thus actively shaping the company’s culture (Van Hove, 2017). In my benchmark survey (Van Hove, 2017), only 25% of survey participants answered yes to the question ‘ We have a relentless focus on only what is important for long term business objectives ’.

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Supply Chain Planning & Optimization Projections for 2018 - Back to the Future

Logility

The large number of major data breaches in 2017 has been the focus of many C-level meetings. The pace of the supply chain, increasingly driven by ever-growing customer expectations (Amazon Effect) can make monthly, weekly or even daily periodic planning processes on their own insufficient for today’s operations.

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Forget the Supply Chain of 2020. Here are 3 Things That Supply Chains Need Today.

Arkieva

While it is nice to envision supply chains in 2020 or 2030 the truth is; for many manufacturing businesses, discussions about future supply chain innovations, often leads to a “yeah.right,” smirk by supply chain executives – this with good reason. Related: How to Perform a Supply Chain Management Assessment for 2017. Source: Arkieva.

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Intelligent IBP – Unshackle the Planners!

Supply Chain Trend

And McKinsey estimates a 24% rise in demand for social and emotional skills by 2030. In a 2017 Foresight article , I highlighted the importance of effective individual and company mindset on IBP performance. That will finally change. Deloitte now estimates that over 30% of highly paid jobs are social by nature. A new planning mindset.