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Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SiOP) – Part One

Arkieva

I pride myself on being an expert in designing and implementing Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning. There is no one-size-fits-all in your supply chain. For A-products we may define higher service levels and carry more inventory. The introduction of new products consumes capacity and requires inventory.

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Why Segmentation and Profitability Go Hand in Hand

BlueYonder

The conference format and size were just right to allow comfortable sharing of ideas and lessons learned about various topics from S&OP and supply chain planning, to inventory optimization and transportation. It was the general consensus of the group that there is value to be delivered from supply chain segmentation.

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Keeping Tire Manufacturing on Track in the New Normal: Supply Chain Optimization is the Best Route Forward

BlueYonder

At the same time, tire manufacturers have suffered from extreme volatility, raw material shortages with rapidly rising prices, a shortage of global transport capacity and increased costs caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic and additional disruptive forces.

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Becoming demand-driven on command

Supply Chain Movement

Understand the length of your product tail, and use this insight to design the supply chain segmentation strategy to manage manufacturing processes (outsourced or insourced). To do this, select a finite capacity planning vendor that can translate independent demand—what is happening in the channel into rhythm wheel requirements.

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Agility and flexibility in the age of digital supply chains – Insights from the 2017 Supply Chain & Logistics EMEA summit & expo

Kinaxis

He viewed automation as a blessing to counter this capacity crunch. Practices such as supply chain segmentation, inventory target setting, and smoothing of production and distribution schedules and bringing consistency and repeatability into them, are all ways to build shock absorbers into the supply chain systems.

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Good Safety is Good Business at the LogiChem 2015 Conference

CH Robinson Transportfolio

At LogiChem, attendees interacted through roundtables and panel discussions on topics that identified best practices around inventory and supply chain metrics, third party logistics provider (3PL) management, rail logistics strategy to combat the driver shortage dilemma, and a host of other topics. Supply chain segmentation.

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JDA’s Project with SanDisk, a Western Digital Brand, Recognized for Its Impressive Supply Chain Transformation

BlueYonder

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the project: Project goal: SanDisk’s goal was to operate a responsive, best-in-class supply chain for flash memory products that would achieve optimal balance between service level and inventory turns across scenarios to create a better experience for its commercial and retail partners and customers.