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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. I did not understand warehousing and transportation until reassignment to a logistics role in 1985. The silos compete. They lack alignment. I am a product of traditional, silo-based thinking. It enables growth.

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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

This includes the optimal placement of inventory within the supply chain, minimizing operating costs including manufacturing costs, transportation costs, and distribution costs. They also get the ability to do a comparison and quickly reconfigure the essential material needed to procure from various suppliers. Transportation planning.

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Supply Chain Optimization Software – A Comprehensive Guide for Manufacturers

ThroughPut

This includes the optimal placement of inventory within the supply chain, minimizing operating costs including manufacturing costs, transportation costs, and distribution costs. They also get the ability to do a comparison and quickly reconfigure the essential material needed to procure from various suppliers. Inventory control.

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Adapting in the Face of Change

Supply Chain Shaman

Inflation is today’s reality. Looming transportation shortages in the United States with the adoption of AB5 and the redefinition of the owner-operator are risks. …or long laborious discussions of the differences between Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP).

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Integrated Planning: Is It Rubbish? Be Careful What You Ask For….

Supply Chain Shaman

…for 8:00 AM strategy meeting(s) with clients.) To use the Barnes example, in this blog post, let’s focus on simplicity. I find most companies are good at pockets of planning–demand planning, supply planning, transportation planning, material planning or plant scheduling, but the flows are not connected.