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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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Top 5 Use Cases of New-age Demand Planning and Forecasting Solutions

ThroughPut

How can demand planning match the pace of market dynamics? The Top 5 Use Cases of AI-powered Demand Planning and Forecasting Solutions 1. This ensures customer demands are met without creating scenarios of overstocking or stockouts. trillion to the global economy by 2030.

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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. My recent blog post on the future of supply chain planning was read by 37,000 readers.

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

Supply Chain Trend

S&OE ENVIRONMENT. In the S&OE horizon , automation can be beneficial, since many decision processes, rules, and thresholds can be digitized and automated. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused much supply chain disruption, increasing system complexity for S&OE as well as business impact, and at an unprecedented scale.

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A River Runs Through It…

Supply Chain Shaman

Within each company and market there are distinct rhythms and flows for demand. It starts with the needs of the customer’s customer and flows through the extended supply network. Demand is seen as a fixed set of numbers, and as a result, the team’s focus is on numbers without understanding the drivers of the markets.

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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. Demand planning is a critical component in any supply chain planning process.

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For Every Tom, Dick, and Harry

Supply Chain Shaman

His first call was on Sales & Operations Planning, and his new inquiry was on S&OP. Tom wanted help to take his S&OP processes to a new level, but his boss was dismissive. On the recent call, Tom shared the story of S&OP evolution through two bosses. How do I show value? What to do?