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Lassoing S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

To align S&OP. As companies transitioned from regional to multi-national organizations, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes proliferated. The average company has seven S&OP processes, but a global chemical company averages over 30. Metrics Definition. Businesses are different.

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Lassoing S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

To align S&OP. As companies transitioned from regional to multi-national organizations, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes proliferated. Today, the average company has seven S&OP processes, but a global chemical company averages over 30. Each defining S&OP differently.

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Ferrari: Under the Hood

ToolsGroup

A supply chain planner today aspires to be a supply chain strategist, supporting sales and operations planning (S&OP) or broader, enterprise-wide business planning processes. Would you share with readers something about yourself? I am an avid gardener and fairly good cook.

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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Prescriptive analytics, where data constantly move in and out of partners’ systems, helps take data insights to the next level with improved visibility and for decision making. Internet of Things (IoT) brings more connectivity in the supply chain network to advance visibility and agility to the logistics and supply operations.

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Technology and the Supply Chain: What Does the Future Hold?

Kinaxis

Internet of and for Things. We’ve talked about the Internet of Things (IOR) before and the implications it has on supply chain, but what I found particularly interesting was WEF chose not to focus on issues like consumers’ growing need for instant gratification. Big Data for Decisions.

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Goodbye scheduled decision-making, hello concurrent planning

Kinaxis

by Alexa Cheater The face of sales and operations planning (S&OP) is changing. Gone are the days when sequential, isolated planning and monthly meetings based on out-of-date data are sufficient to drive stability and success. The future of S&OP is collaborative decision-making and perpetual planning.

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Open Letter to the Chief Financial Officer

Supply Chain Shaman

In our research for the book Supply Chain Metrics That Matter , we find that this is the case for 90% of companies. As a result, if inventory is is arbitrarily reduced you can hurt the company’s ability to meet orders. Figure 2: S&OP Change Management Issues. Growth is difficult with stalled financial results.