Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Over the last six years, we studied the connection between business results (growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)) and the link to company characteristics. Let’s Start with Definitions: One of the difficulties in supply chain is the lack of common definitions. What did we find?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Definition: “Someone’s efforts, resolve, or viability are tested; things are meaningfully challenging. The supply chain team’s past thirty-two months of disruption were a long, winding road full of surprises. ” Following the announcement, Ford’s stock closed at the lowest valuation in eleven years.

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Arkieva

JUNE 28, 2016

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a continuous business process that enables firms from hospitals to chemicals to respond to emerging situations intelligently. Our focus today is to discuss the relevance of buzz words such as Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Data Science, and Machine Learning, for S&OP.

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Logility

JANUARY 4, 2022

Planalytics’ weather-driven demand analytics help businesses stay ahead of never-ending sales variability. Logility customers can leverage Planalytics weather-driven demand analytics to factor in the weather’s influence on top line revenue and product/category sales across specific time periods and locations. ATLANTA – Jan.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2023

The use of descriptive analytics along with agile planning techniques (what-if analysis, discrete event simulation, and network design) helped. Analytics investments are essential. We find that companies with an analytics center of excellence drove progress faster than those with a supply chain center of excellence. Responsive.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 15, 2022

There is so much data, and to make use of it, we need to use data mining and analytics to drive meaningful insights that can be put to some good use. ABC Analysis for Inventory Planning : Clustering products that behave similarly highlights issues, challenges, and opportunities for serving customers better.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2024

We explore the concept of holistic inventory strategies focused on the form and function of inventory. In the process, we learn that only 15-20% of inventories are safety stock and that the current APS frameworks do not enable a holistic analysis of the form and function of inventory. Lack of aligned metrics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

And the impact doesn’t stop there, since trade-off decisions will be required to answer questions like which customer is most important to satisfy with the limited bolts in inventory and if production capacity should be reallocated. Analytics inform decisions. Agility to act on transparency.

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QAD

MARCH 28, 2019

Inventory accuracy and minimizing stockouts are very important to customer satisfaction, but a few other metrics also impact the ability to meet customer expectations. Companies can use these metrics to help ensure they are doing everything possible to satisfy their customers at a manageable and sustainable cost.

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ShipBob

JANUARY 28, 2022

Proper inventory management can make or break ecommerce brands: Have too much stock and you’ll rack up storage costs and tie up cash flow. That’s why it’s crucial to track inventory management KPIs consistently. . What are KPIs & why are they important for your inventory management?

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 31, 2016

In the last 30 years S&OP improved performance in many businesses. However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. Worse, overall S&OP development and progress seems to have stalled.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. Payable terms grew, and the focus on efficient procurement and functional metrics reduced the development of strong relationships across the value chain. ” Let’s set the stage. Focus on Cost. His response?

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Logility

MARCH 21, 2023

Finance teams typically set annual plans to drive them, and supply chain planners engage in sales and operations planning (S&OP) and sales and operating execution (S&OE) to help deliver them. This information allows CSCOs to react to real-time differences between inventory levels, budgets, and fiscal projections.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

One day, a product is flying off the shelves, and the next, it’s gathering dust. That’s why staying on top of the latest supply chain planning trends is so important – they can make all the difference when it comes to staying competitive, reducing costs, and meeting your customers’ needs.

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Logility

JULY 31, 2023

This turbulence sends ripples through their sales and operations planning (S&OP) process, adding complex layers and challenging the essence of effective decision-making. As these factors become increasingly prevalent, S&OP — the vital nerve center of an organization’s supply chain strategy — is being stretched thin.

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Silvon Software

JANUARY 25, 2023

Unfortunately, though, some sales organizations—or at least some sales professionals—are reluctant to engage in the demand planning and S&OP process. It’s important to make it easy for salespeople to contribute to the demand planning process. THE DEMAND PLANNING PROCESS (FOR SALES) Simplify the inputs needed by Sales.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Therefore, evaluating performance and creating a comprehensive digitalization strategy are essential for a distributor’s success. It involves various activities, such as warehousing, inventory management, transportation, and logistics. Optimizing inventory can also be achieved by leveraging technology and data analytics.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

According to Niels van Hove ( @sctrends ), the term Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) was coined back in 1987. As van Hove notes, “The times since Sales & Operations planning (S&OP) was born in 1987 as a solution for operational issues are long gone.”[1] People, Processes, and Technology.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. Payable terms grew, and the focus on efficient procurement and functional metrics reduced the development of strong relationships across the value chain. Focus on Cost. A Decline in Innovation. The discussion needs to shift.

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ThroughPut

AUGUST 12, 2021

The industry faces losses worth billions due to excess inventory, heavy discounting, and unavailability of stock. Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is the catalyst that helps businesses optimize their sales, marketing, supply chain, and financing. How S&OP can generate profits and enhance visibility?

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Supply Chain Opz

AUGUST 2, 2018

From the most basic to the most advanced organization, Inventory Optimization is a critical goal and one which underpins the effectiveness of the supply chain operation. Inventory Optimization requires an organization to sustain and maintain the right mix of cost versus service.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 17, 2015

The story unfolds as Max’s bedroom undergoes a mysterious transformation into a jungle environment, and he winds up sailing to an island inhabited by malicious beasts known as the “Wild Things.” The business requirements have outpaced the first and second generation of capabilitie s of the Advanced Planning Systems (APS).

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Logility

MARCH 16, 2021

The webcast will discuss the causes of supply variability, initiatives to address the challenge, metrics to measure success, and segmentation to align these efforts across a complex, global supply chain. s current Form 10-K and other reports and documents subsequently filed with the SEC. 626) 657-0013 or email kliu@amsoftware.com.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2013

Closing the gaps happens when there are aligned metrics, clarity of vision and aligned planning processes. More advanced supply chain leaders model the role of complexity (product and customer), the impact of risk, and opportunity of innovation as well as product shipping and manufacturing locations, and inventory policies.

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Logility

JANUARY 14, 2021

SaaSPath is a global survey of approximately 2,000 organizations across all geographic regions and company sizes, where customers are asked to rate their vendor on more than 30 different customer satisfaction metrics. s current Form 10-K and other reports and documents subsequently filed with the SEC.

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Alloy

APRIL 10, 2023

So you might wonder what these companies have in common and how they all find value in our data and analytics platform for consumer goods brands. In addition, we received responses from a variety of titles – CXOs to managers and individual contributors – and functional areas, with the largest groups in Sales, Sales Ops and Supply Chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This means we need more agile, flexible, and scalable planning platforms to process and consolidate new data sources, drive insights using advanced analytics such as AI/ML to drive autonomous decisions, and expand collaboration within and outside our organizations. We need planning platforms to keep up with all the changes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Colgate outperformed P&G in Return on Invested Capital (ROIC), and P&G exceeded Colgate in inventory turns. ” So, I started work with Arizona State University to take balance sheet data from 2003-2007 to analyze which combination of metrics drove the highest market capitalization. Investment in Descriptive Analytics.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 4, 2017

From business planning, sales and operations planning (S&OP) down to detailed material planning, capacity planning is part of the conversation at all levels. Utilization is a key metric for high capital equipment. Capacity and inventory planning work closely together to manage prebuild plans against inventory targets.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2015

In Figure 1, I share an analysis of user satisfaction of demand, tactical supply, inventory and Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) technologies using this technique. Let’s start with a discussion of how to read the box and whisker plot. What else do we see in the data?

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 22, 2023

However, standing still and sticking to old dogma’s, not innovate, come up with new ideas and envision a better supply chain planning future is not an option for me. Vision, strategy (lack of it), cultural, leadership, behavioral, skill and mindset challenges won’t magically disappear. Not everything can or should be automated.

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crisp

JANUARY 24, 2024

Discover how Walmart’s Luminate Charter plan is revolutionizing retail data analytics with these five essential reports for suppliers. Imagine having a panoramic view of your product’s journey across all sales channels, understanding intricate customer purchase patterns, and the precise flow of inventory to every store.

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DynaSys

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

You also need to assess quickly where the marketplace will be after any run on inventory” according to Pat Bower, Director of Demand Planning at Combe. When it comes to inventory planning, the notion that what happened yesterday will probably happen tomorrow has been erased by COVID-19. How to approach the new reality?

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Digital transformation is not seen as a singular activity but a set of interrelated activities that span across people, process, technology, policy, and metrics,” said George Fowler, group vice president in Spinnaker’s Supply Chain business unit. About ToolsGroup. Visit www.ToolsGroup.com and follow us on Twitter @ToolsGroup. About Spinnaker.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2014

I have taken myself off the road to write the book Metrics That Matter. On the 2nd of April, I sat before a board discussing how a company could exceed expectations in the delivery of Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and superior operating margins and fail at the delivery of customer service and inventory. It is a slow week.

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Silvon Software

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Operational performance analytics support an operational restructuring initiative by helping businesses pinpoint performance issues and their root causes. Our experience with mid-market manufacturers and distributors has shown that the deployment of financial and operational metrics is still an evolving process.

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Vanguard Software

APRIL 16, 2021

As many supply chain organizations have discovered during the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain simulation software is only as beneficial as the data behind it and the ability of its algorithms to apply advanced analytics to forecasting. Or if the world’s busiest trade route becomes blocked? Scenario Planning During COVID-19.

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