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S&OP: Can You Make Decisions at the Speed of Business?

Supply Chain Shaman

I spent time this week completing reference calls on the use of S&OP technologies. Eerily the case studies sound the same as the ones heard when I completed S&OP research in 2004. Eerily the case studies sound the same as the ones heard when I completed S&OP research in 2004. What am I hearing?

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Announcing the Supply Chains to Admire for 2019

Supply Chain Shaman

Maturity in horizontal process development– Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and new product launch—also drives value. Over the last month, I have been working on the 2019 Supply Chains to Admire analysis. Please join me in congratulating the winners of the Supply Chains to Admire for 2019.

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The March of the Lemmings.

Supply Chain Shaman

A lemming’s population rises and falls. In this blog post, I share quantitative research, mixed with stories, of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). Let’s face it folks, we have acted as lemmings over the last decade when it comes to S&OP. Effective S&OP takes work.

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Head Scratcher

Supply Chain Shaman

The broader concepts of connecting from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier are largely forgotten. My focus is on process flows from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier. John’s Vision of Supply Chain Planning. What do you think of John’s vision?

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sust[AI]nability

Enterra Insights

The first company, Nestlé, the world’s largest food company and an Enterra Solutions ® client, announced last December it plans to invest $3.6 billion over the next five years as part of its long-term goal to cut in half its emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero emissions by 2050.”[5] How do we know?

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

Supply Chain Trend

Preview In his 2019 Foresight article, Niels van Hove examined eight technological hurdles that must be overcome to enable autonomous or ‘lights out’ supply-chain planning. S&OE ENVIRONMENT. In the S&OE horizon , automation can be beneficial, since many decision processes, rules, and thresholds can be digitized and automated.

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Trends 2021: Machine Learning

Enterra Insights

billion devices in 2030, producing $1.5 According to Yossi Sheffi ( @YossiSheffi ), the Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT, data is now a company’s most important asset. is a big fat lie ,” Big Think, 23 January 2019. [2] 9] Baker, op. trillion in income. Machine Learning and Cybersecurity.

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