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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. Before I started doing this research, I believed procurement and manufacturing were aligned. Analytics Techniques for Supply Chain 2030.

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Go Horizontal!

Supply Chain Shaman

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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S&OP: Five Steps to Get Started

Supply Chain Shaman

I will also pen my 95th report for this week’s Supply Chain Insight’s newsletter. It is one that is often asked: “S&OP How Do I Get Started?” ” S&OP: How Do I Get Started? I asked, “Why is S&OP important to your business?”

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Supply Chain Optimization Software – A Comprehensive Guide for Manufacturers

ThroughPut

Managing inventory is one of the most crucial aspects of supply chain optimization as it affects several other parts of your supply chain, including procurement, order fulfilment and production planning. They also get the ability to do a comparison and quickly reconfigure the essential material needed to procure from various suppliers.

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Supply Chain Optimization Software – A Comprehensive Guide for Manufacturers

ThroughPut

Managing inventory is one of the most crucial aspects of supply chain optimization as it affects several other parts of your supply chain, including procurement, order fulfillment, and production capacity planning. Needed to automate the procurement order processes. This helps solve several problems for them: 1. Inventory control.

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Adapting in the Face of Change

Supply Chain Shaman

Daily, we see business continuity case studies as headline news in the Wall Street Journal. Inflation is today’s reality. …or long laborious discussions of the differences between Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP). Then look at the impact on Macy’s.