Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 18, 2015

Introduction For many companies the implementation of a formal Sales and Operation Planning (“S&OP”) process has not delivered the expected improvement in demand and supply integration. Overly focused on efficiency and cost savings, i.e. on the “O,” the “S” in S&OP now seems to have become an afterthought.

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Logility

APRIL 19, 2013

Get your voice heard and share your insights on how Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is conducted at your company. Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights, has kicked off research for the report, “How S&OP Drives Agility.” All responses will be kept anonymous and only reported in aggregate.

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Arkieva

APRIL 12, 2022

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Supply Chain Trend

MARCH 14, 2018

Some companies run their Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) with great effectiveness. However, too often S&OP maturity and performance stalls, even when the supporting S&OP processes and systems are properly implemented. To win with S&OP, you clearly need a wining organizational mindset.

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Supply Chain Trend

JULY 28, 2018

To be most effective, S&OP requires a positive, growth-oriented, mentally tough mindset as well as constructive behaviours. It is unlikely that a critical mass of effective behaviours is present in every company that implements S&OP. Why we need Behavioural Coaching for effective S&OP.

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Logility

DECEMBER 15, 2023

With AI-powered capabilities, F&B companies can collaborate and negotiate with a fact-based sales and operations planning (S&OP) foundation and keen visibility across the global supply chain network to pivot quickly when new opportunities and risks arise.

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Supply Chain Trend

APRIL 12, 2016

An S&OP implementation requires many changes, not the least behavioural change. However, there are different behavioural change requirements during S&OP maturity stages. In four posts, four coaching phases will be explained to support leaders with behavioural change in different S&OP maturity phases.

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Supply Chain Trend

JULY 28, 2018

To be most effective, S&OP requires a positive, growth-oriented, mentally tough mindset as well as constructive behaviours. It is unlikely that a critical mass of effective behaviours is present in every company that implements S&OP. Why we need Behavioural Coaching for effective S&OP.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 11, 2014

In this edition: Jaro Caban, Global S&OP, Cargill Animal Nutrition. My responsibility is Global S&OP and Process Improvement Lead and I take care of three elements: Firstly, to establish S&OP across CAN. Nine questions about the topics on the supply chain agenda of a supply chain professional.

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Supply Chain Trend

MARCH 14, 2018

Some companies run their Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) with great effectiveness. However, too often S&OP maturity and performance stalls, even when the supporting S&OP processes and systems are properly implemented. To win with S&OP, you clearly need a wining organizational mindset.

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) is a 30 year old horizontal business management process that provides executives with forward visibility on how their business is expected to perform against budget and strategy. Any decision being made in an S&OP meeting, needs to be in the context to achieve the vision and strategy.

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Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 22, 2016

The need to benchmark supply chain performance runs deep in many companies. For many companies, the search for benchmarking data becomes the end in and of itself, rather than the means to an end. Often, companies go through the trouble of completing a benchmark, only to then let the results collect dust on a bookshelf.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Here’s how wholesalers powered by ToolsGroup’s service-driven supply chain planning are ready for anything tomorrow may bring. Gruppo Giovannini SpA, a wholesale distributor of electrical spare parts, wanted to implement an S&OP process to better manage its expanding inventory replete with slow moving items.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The S&OP cycle has hit a wall. The S&OP process gains magnitudes of complexity when a new element, like an updated regulation or a market expansion, is added. The S&OP cycle may even slow down as the company grows. There’s misalignment between key functions.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Here’s the rub. Mindy Davis , SAP’s Vice President of Global Marketing for the Digital Supply Chain, explains, “Supply chains need to be risk-resilient and efficient. 2] Faisal Rashid, “ Resilience is a choice — it’s not a trait of supply chains ,” Supply Chain Digital, 20 May 2023. [3]

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Deliverable: Evaluation of RTM against sector benchmarks. A grading of each core element in terms of capability to deliver the presents in compariosn to benchmarks. Other seasonal yo ho ho posts: Santa & Opening Presents - Why S&OP is Invaluable at Christmas. Summary of Evaluation. Click here to enlarge.

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Kinaxis

JULY 14, 2014

In Supply Chain Metrics That Matter: A Focus on Aerospace and Defense , Supply Chain Insights benchmarks A&D companies against other industries and dives into data from five top A&D companies over the last decade. Complimentary report courtesy of Lora Cecere of Supply Chain Insights LLC. Get the research.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, having an efficient supply chain department is more important than ever. Here’s why a structured approach is important: Efficiency A structured department creates a clear division of labor and defines processes for procurement, production, distribution, and returns. Enroll Now!

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2015

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is important to building value chain agility and improving enterprise performance. The building of an effective S&OP process takes many years–often three to seven. The most effective S&OP process reports to a profit-center manager (P&L).

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 23, 2017

Benchmarking. The first step to building a guiding a coalition is benchmarking. We are offering three types of benchmarking: planning, financial and organizational. Understand inventory write-offs, impact of forecast processes and technology satisfaction in the planning benchmarking. Here we share some insights.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2015

Today, companies attempting to drive additional improvements through demand sensing and better visibility in Sales & Operations Planning S&OP). Today, two in five companies believe their S&OP process is effective. Only one third report that they are able to execute the S&OP plan.

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Arkieva

MAY 12, 2016

Deriving a strategic benchmark for Product Leadership, Operational Excellence and Customer Intimacy in the Supply Chain Triangle. From the benchmark data gathered in the previous sections and the previous blogs, we can distill the benchmark for Product Leadership, Operational Excellence and Customer Intimacy, shown in Figure 9.

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ThroughPut

AUGUST 12, 2021

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is the catalyst that helps businesses optimize their sales, marketing, supply chain, and financing. Covid-19 caused a cataclysmic shift in the functioning of the F&B industry from the traditional S&OP methods. How S&OP can generate profits and enhance visibility?

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Arkieva

APRIL 19, 2016

Using so called orbit charts, we have benchmarked companies on EBIT% versus Inventory Turns. That benchmark helped to reveal the ‘best practice frontier’, which in turn helped in setting aggressive but aligned targets for EBIT% versus Inventory Turns. Benchmarking EBITDA% versus Inventory Turns.

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Arkieva

MAY 10, 2016

A next logical question is if we can somehow capture this from publicly available financial data and benchmark companies on this strategic level. When benchmarking SG&A it is crucial to verify whether that includes or excludes the R&D costs. Extending the analysis to extra benchmark companies. SG&A expense (excl.

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Supply Chain Movement

JULY 18, 2016

Exchange knowledge and informative insights with leading experts and discuss current landscape for the S&OP implementation. S&OP Best Practice and Post-Implementation. KPI, S&OP Dashboard & Scoreboard. S&OP Challenges. S&OP Challenges. Startup of S&OP.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

The visibility to spend allows them to provide excellent benchmarking in several areas. Coupa’s Take on Platform Fatigue The top executives at Coupa had a private briefing for industry analysts. Coupa solutions are also being used for S&OE. Coupa also offers a robust, market share leading, supply chain design solution.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2015

In the recent research that we have just completed on supply chain planning benchmarking, we surveyed 430 planners. 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. What else do we see in the data?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Many of the case studies being presented at today’s conferences were born during the pandemic and the post-pandemic turbulence. Leaders of the 90’s Are No Longer Leaders. Today’s risk management solutions focus largely on supply sensing and early alerting. As I listen, I struggle. Learning Stalled.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 17, 2023

Thank you for helping us conserve the earth’s vital resources.” There are many links between supply chain planning and sustainability goals, as illustrated by the following examples: The process of Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) aims to align demand and supply for the complete supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 19, 2021

” To demonstrate the point, let me share a discussion with a client; let’s call him Joe. Joe’s selection team is large (twelve people from multiple organizations), and they are not clear on what defines a good plan. What defines S&OP success for your organization?” ” Joe. ” Lora.

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Logility

JANUARY 14, 2021

Benchmark Based on Global Survey Highlights Logility’s Leadership in Ease of Use and Driving Rapid Benefits. s current Form 10-K and other reports and documents subsequently filed with the SEC. ATLANTA – January 14, 2020 – Logility, Inc., These factors include, but are not limited to, continuing U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

As a result, we shelved Ed’s idea. Testing Ed’s idea was beyond my circle of control. Strength in S&OP. Despite the insistence by supply chain leaders on the need to improve supply chain agility and resiliency, it isn’t possible without creating space for Ed’s great ideas to live.

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crisp

JUNE 29, 2022

He also manages the S&OP (Sales & Operational Planning) process to align the organization around a single outlook, then works with the operations team to ensure retailers and distributors are properly stocked. This ties back to Dan’s S&OP process. “We

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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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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JULY 23, 2014

I know I am prone to rattle on about Sales & Operational Planning (S&OP) but seeing the benefits being delivered to previously struggling business is extremely motivating for a confirmed “techy” like myself. There was a weekly demand planning meeting that resembled an S&OP meeting. The Approach.

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 1, 2021

ERP, WMS, TMS and S&OP), no separate and distinct category of supply chain sustainability software has yet emerged. It’s time to finally get serious about measuring and benchmarking your carbon emissions. The Earth is on fire! Martijn Lofvers, Chief Trendwatcher Supply Chain Media. martijn.lofvers@supplychainmedia.nl.

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