Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2019

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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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 25, 2019

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. In many global supply chain leaders, planners are 5-10% of back office employees.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 5, 2024

For over a century, the global automotive industry has been focused on one central technology: the internal combustion engine. To add to this complexity, today’s consumers are demanding and craving product customization. Learn more about how S&OP can support sales planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

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. The reasons are many: early retirements, growth in global markets and the growing importance of supply chain leadership. The struggle is what to do?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

Functional silos define today’s supply chain organization. My first job was in manufacturing in the 1980’s. Inside-out processes assume that the order represents demand, and that the supply chain’s role ends with a perfect shipment. The silos compete. They lack alignment. This is not an easy transition.

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Arkieva

AUGUST 8, 2016

Sustainable Freight Action Plan for California is estimated to Improve Freight Efficiency by 25% in 2030. Targets for 2030 Include: Improve freight system efficiency 25 percent by 2030. Companies with a deep focus on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) will often default to this definition.”. by 2020. “In

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Christopher Marquis ( @CMarquisCornell ), a Professor in Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University, explains, “People are increasingly expecting and calling on businesses to uphold higher social and environmental standards.”[1] Currently, environmentalists are hoping to restrict global warming to less than 1.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2019

Maturity in horizontal process development– Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and new product launch—also drives value. Apple, Broadcom, Dollar General, TJX and Ubiquiti Networks earn placement in the Winner’s Circle for three successive years. Imagine Supply Chain 2030. Outside-in Processes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 5, 2016

” Steve’s response was fascinating and enlightening. I related to Steve’s story of death by a thousand cuts. 21 versus P&G’s.19 P&G’s rate of improvement on the Metrics That Matter was lower than the peer group. Let’s take the case of Cisco Systems.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2016

Companies attempt to grow through mergers, global expansion, new products and services, and line extensions. It starts with the needs of the customer’s customer and flows through the extended supply network. To meet the needs, and navigate the volatility of global markets, leadership teams must navigate the river flows.

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Logility

DECEMBER 18, 2017

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. Much of the data used for supply chain planning and execution comes from outside of a company’s ERP systems.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 20, 2023

Strengthening Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) efforts Ensure future ordering plans are updated automatically Supply chain managers always have the pressure to adequately fulfill their future orders and ensure the sales and operations plans are in sync with inventory levels. trillion to the global economy by 2030.

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 13, 2020

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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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2016

I will also pen my 95th report for this week’s Supply Chain Insight’s newsletter. We now reach 23,000 supply chain leaders globally with our newsletter and have over 50,000 views/month on Slideshare. It is one that is often asked: “S&OP How Do I Get Started?” How do I get started?”

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 23, 2017

The game is designed to simulate an S&OP environment. By 2030, companies will be short 20% of employees at the senior manager and director level. Building Agility through Horizontal Processes like S&OP, Supplier Development and Revenue Management. The game can be played by 10-100 employees. Training.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Global nutritional supplement leader targets greater supply chain transparency with the Logility® Digital Supply Chain Platform. Herbalife Nutrition, a global nutrition company, selected the Logility Digital Supply Chain Platform to improve its supply chain management around the world. ATLANTA (September 7, 2022) – Logility, Inc.,

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Unleashed

JULY 25, 2021

Over a third of the world’s food produce and products are wasted. Food waste accounts for eight percent of global greenhouse gases and has significant environmental and economic impacts. For example the Raven Food Co-op, a Warsaw-based food cooperative is committed to preventing food waste before it occurs.

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Supply Chain Trend

MARCH 7, 2016

The first commercial GPS systems were launched in the 80’s. In our connected, interdependent global world, similar to a 3D map, we will require multidimensional network prescription and optimizing. Cars like the Mercedes e-class and Tesla S model already can change lanes autonomous and park the car without the driver being in the car.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 4, 2023

The track included the lyrics: “Nothing can beat the P-E-P-S-I, yes I drink it constantly / Something ’bout the taste feels great, less filling / Tell ’em Biggie said to drink it all, don’t test me / Nothing else beats a Pepsi / If it is, let’s see/ I’m thirsty.” And now on to this week’s logistics news. That’s all for this week.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 8, 2019

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. The struggle for Tom’s team is real.

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Supply Chain Trend

JUNE 29, 2023

This second article will focus on autonomous planning and the finance professional’s role. ” This data layer solves information shortcomings in large global enterprises that run disparate systems but lack a common database. The first article of this series is available here.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

I strongly feel that if I am going to cover the global supply chain that I need to experience it. Connectivity enabled the growth of the global supply chain opening up markets driving opportunity. However, globalization comes with responsibility. Today’s populist movement is about new winners and losers.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 24, 2021

All tolled it’s not been the summer people had hoped it would be. Till it’s gone. He wrote, “Humans must change the way the world’s land and water resources are used to avert a climate crisis, an effort that includes cities. Floods have also ravished parts of Germany and China. They paved paradise.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 15, 2021

While I was able to hug friends again at the wake and I will host my Supply Chain Insights Global Summit in September, the supply chain leader is only ½ way through the COVID-19 response. Only 9% of Global Multinationals design supply chain flows. Globally, 39.3% We can no longer assume the availability of global logistics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2023

That assessment comes as a result of 10 months of subdued demand, inventory de-stocking, and high interest rates, the New Jersey-based company said in its “The GEP Global Supply Chain Volatility Index.” The logistics provider has already deployed 3,000 AMRs globally with over 2,000 in North America.

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Logility

JANUARY 31, 2023

Measuring the Value of Optimized Inventory in Service Parts The spare parts market is big business, with the global automotive spare parts market valued at US $160.69 billion by 2030. billion in 2021 and projected to grow to US $264.68

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 16, 2018

1] Some pundits might argue it’s not surprising companies are looking to automate positions since they can’t find qualified individuals to fill their job openings. That’s why the MENAFN staff remains sanguine about the future. According to the Department of Labor, at the end of 2017, there were 5.8 ”[7].

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ThroughPut

APRIL 6, 2020

Untimely, operational bottlenecks cause a $12 trillion dent on the global production market and contribute to a major share of this waste. trillion to the global economy by 2030. With accurate data visibility, manufacturers are guarded against ambiguous and outdated information as well. . Bottleneck elimination. Industry 4.0

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ThroughPut

APRIL 2, 2020

Untimely, operational bottlenecks cause a $12 trillion dent on the global production market and contribute to a major share of this waste. It’s needed to anticipate and predict customer demand, pricing dynamics, procurement planning, and managing production processes accordingly. trillion to the global economy by 2030.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 24, 2022

Focus on tight integration of the budget to supply chain flows in S&OP. ” The assumption that traditional demand planning focused on order patterns or the use of S&OP to understand demand is insufficient. The overarching goal was to know when to shut down the Company’s titanium dioxide factory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2022

Inflation is today’s reality. …or long laborious discussions of the differences between Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP). Today’s processes are inside-out not outside-in. Let’s examine the market reality by looking at a peer group.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2016

…for 8:00 AM strategy meeting(s) with clients.) To use the Barnes example, in this blog post, let’s focus on simplicity. As planning organizations within companies grow-up–a move from a regional, to multi-national, to global– getting clear on the basics of planning becomes more and more important.

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