QAD

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Tackle Disruptions Fast With real-time supplier visibility and risk assessment tools, QAD lets you pivot quickly and source alternatives to keep production on track. QAD Production Planning Championship Production QADs Production Planning optimizes every run, maximizing capacity and efficiency to meet Super Bowl demand without guesswork.

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QAD

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Complexities of Managing Supplier Relationships Managing suppliers has always been complex, but it is becoming even more challenging in today’s fast-paced automotive industry. Depending on the industry, companies can see cost savings of 5 to 10% and revenue gains of 7 to 10%. Technology can help to transform supplier relationships.

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Exiger Perspectives

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Brandon Daniels: One of the things that generative AI is doing is it’s making it so procurement and supply chain people are able to bridge a skills gap. And where there are conflicts, that’s where we need to insert a human. And that’s where this 10x of capability and capacity really comes out and provides results.

Supply Chain Risk Management 52

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Image source: Stefan de Kok 2. Reduction in Lost Sales: In the retail sector, there’s a 50% chance of losing a sale due to service failures, though this can vary by product and sector. The image compares a statistical forecast to throwing 2 dice (left) and its probabilistic forecasting equivalent (right).

Forecasting 156

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ThroughPut

JULY 14, 2025

Checklist: How to Prepare Your Supply Chain for AI Use this step-by-step checklist to evaluate and accelerate your readiness for AI implementation across planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and logistics. ThroughPut.ai helped a leading CPG firm cut lead times by 27% using demand-sensing AI and dynamic replenishment.

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o9 Solutions

MAY 19, 2025

This digital twin provides a comprehensive, multi-tiered model of the supply chain, integrating data from internal systems and external sources to create a dynamic, real-time view of the end-to-end network. This capability underpins the S&OE (Sales and Operations Execution) process, but with suppliers embedded as collaborative partners.

Risk Management 40

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ThroughPut

JULY 14, 2025

Checklist: How to Prepare Your Supply Chain for AI Use this step-by-step checklist to evaluate and accelerate your readiness for AI implementation across planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and logistics. ThroughPut.ai helped a leading CPG firm cut lead times by 27% using demand-sensing AI and dynamic replenishment.

Supply Chain Planning Software 52

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The Solution: AI-Driven Demand Forecasting for Cement Manufacturers ThroughPut.AIs Demand Sensing Solution provides a single source of truth for demand planners, enabling real-time insights and AI-powered predictions. 20% More Capacity in manufacturing operations to meet fluctuating demand.

Supply and Demand 52

Supply and Demand Material Savings Optimal Sourcing Waste Reduction 52

IT Supply Chain

JULY 8, 2025

Open-Source Components A lot of IT tools are built on open-source code. If hackers insert a bug or backdoor into a popular open-source library, that flaw spreads into every product that uses it. The source? Monitor Software Sources Track every open-source tool you use. That’s not a bad thing.

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o9 Solutions

MAY 7, 2025

In this article, we first examine the major challenges facing industrial manufacturers today, how o9’s platform helps address them and, finally, what real-world success looks like through world-class transformation case studies. telematics) are changing the game.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 7, 2025

Rates Are Stuck Because Capacity Won’t Budge The report admits it: The market is still oversupplied. Watch for real capacity shifts: The freight market won’t move until capacity really bleeds off. Source: SONAR Spot Rate Changes Over Last 4 Days (Van TRAC Map). And that’s why rates are dragging. We’re not there yet.

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Purchasing Skills Negotiating Skills Just-in-Time Florida 73

QAD

JANUARY 21, 2025

Achieving operational excellence isn’t just about having individual components working well; it’s about creating a seamless flow between them. But here’s the catch: demand forecasting isn’t a static process, nor is it a one-size-fits-all solution. And this is where the magic starts to happen.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 6, 2025

In the latter, the leveraging of Salesforce Cloud provides customers with the ability to more readily integrate various manifestations of customer along with product demand data and insights into an existing or planned future business-wide overall sales and operations planning ( S&OP ) or integrated business planning (IBP) process.

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AIMMS

AUGUST 3, 2020

However, one-third of SCP leaders cite “the lack of effective decision making in the S&OP meeting process as the most critical problem to solve for their function’s overall performance” (source: Gartner, Improve S&OP Decision Making Through Scenario Planning , Supply Chain Research Team, 4 May 2020).

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) as a process has been around since the 1980’s. While the terminology evolved, the underlying thesis of S&OP has stayed the same, i.e., bridge the divide between sales forecasts and operational plans while respecting the budget.

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Logility

JUNE 23, 2023

 S&OP and Multi-Horizon Integrated Business Planning Manual supply chain processes are a real headache. And next to impossible is creating plans in a timely manner when monitoring unrelated KPIs across multiple disconnected sources of data. Supply chain organizations are no strangers to this frustration.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The topic that often comes up in these conversations is Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP). While S&OP as a discipline has been around for over two decades, it has been generating great interest recently. From time to time, I hear comments such as: “My monthly S&OP process takes 6 weeks to execute”. “We

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 24, 2015

by Lori Smith Can the S&OP process be done without technology? So what technologies are today’s supply chain teams using to support the critical S&OP process? In addition, companies will have two to five S&OP processes working independently.”. Provide in-depth analysis using complex analytics.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 28, 2019

To learn more about these efforts, we spoke with Wilko Sierksma , HEINEKEN’s manager for Network Design and Global S&OP. . Heineken’s brewery in Zoeterwoude, image credit: Heineken. The other part of my team’s responsibilities is what we call global S&OP. HEINEKEN is a very de-centralized company.

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AIMMS

AUGUST 3, 2020

However, one-third of SCP leaders cite “the lack of effective decision making in the S&OP meeting process as the most critical problem to solve for their function’s overall performance” (source: Gartner, Improve S&OP Decision Making Through Scenario Planning, Supply Chain Research Team, 4 May 2020).

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 8, 2017

In my previous guest commentary , I shared some of my thoughts on the impact of machine learning on S&OP and described what would be a potential ultimate machine learning solution. In today’s post, I’ll share some concrete examples of machine learning applications used today in the context of S&OP.

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AIMMS

MARCH 30, 2020

There is a strategic incentive in understanding the optimal sourcing location for specific customers, and the optimal sourcing location for different resources. Study 3: Identify Optimal Sourcing Locations . Companies may not be able to adequately ramp up capacity and lose sales. Capacity shutdown in S&OP Navigator.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JULY 5, 2017

From my previous blog post , it’s clear that the road to achieving sales and operations planning (S&OP) excellence is not an easy one. Read on to learn how to transform your S&OP workflow, boost your scenario planning capabilities and get the most out of your S&OP process.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) has been a longstanding practice for businesses across nearly every industry. Yet, as supply chain innovators, we also know the rich history of applying technologies to continuously resolve these challenges and optimize S&OP outcomes.

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Logility

MAY 3, 2021

Execution of S&OP through a sales and operations execution process is what sets top brands apart. S&OP Defined. The goal of S&OP is to create an overall strategy that helps resource allocation and management meet customer needs while controlling costs. S&OE Bridges the Gap.

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Logility

AUGUST 5, 2021

Food and beverage companies that engage in sales and operations planning (S&OP) and act on those strategies early are the ones that can safeguard their profitability, satisfy consumers, and operate more responsively than their competition. Yielding Winning Outcomes in a Field of Uncertainty. Improved customer satisfaction.

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AIMMS

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Source: Oliver Wight. When applied to S&OP and IBP, modeling and optimization enable you to balance out scenarios and perform what-if analyses so you can analyze how these different scenarios will affect your inventory and/or cost. JBS: A case for integrating optimization in S&OP and IBP.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) has been around for over three decades. Some analysts insist it’s time companies move on. Other analysts insist the purposes behind S&OP remain as relevant as ever. ” The purpose of S&OP. S&OP approval at an executive meeting.

S&OP 100

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2023

Traditionally, planning processes are designed to serve specific time horizons – sales & operations execution (S&OE) is used for short term horizon, sales & operations planning (S&OP) for the mid-term horizon, and integrated business planning (IBP) for long term strategic horizon.

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AIMMS

MARCH 2, 2021

What is S&OE and what does it entail to develop a companion app with optimization capabilities? As Gartner explains , “a good way to think about S&OE (Sales & Operations Execution) is to picture a middleman that receives, interprets and forwards information between the operational and strategic levels.” Let’s dive in.

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The Network Effect

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Our cloud-based planning layer enables the sharing of S&OP data across key stakeholders within the retail supply network. Once captured, this downstream data is available for analysis in workbenches, dashboards, and various reports along with rolling up into the S&OP process.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 11, 2014

In this edition: Jaro Caban, Global S&OP, Cargill Animal Nutrition. It consolidated Cargill’s global animal feed production and strengthened its internal supply chain capacity for food production and processing. At Provimi we had already embarked on S&OP and we were putting planning procedures in place.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

They source plastic pellets and then use injection, blow molding, rotational molding, and thermoforming to produce their finished products. That meant Myers had limited capabilities when it came to sales & operational planning (S&OP). You know it’s really good. The fast-growing company generated over $5.5

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 26, 2019

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) has been around for three decades. Many pundits, however, believe the S&OP process, as originally conceived, needs to change. What’s going on? ”[2] Think back 30 years to around the time the S&OP concept was first developed. They are: 1.

S&OP 100

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AIMMS

JANUARY 28, 2019

To learn more about these efforts, we spoke with Wilko Sierksma , HEINEKEN’s manager for Network Design and Global S&OP. . Heineken’s brewery in Zoeterwoude, image credit: Heineken. The other part of my team’s responsibilities is what we call global S&OP. HEINEKEN is a very de-centralized company.

Modeling 156

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 9, 2018

A new report from Nucleus Research, Value Drivers of Single Model S&OP , concludes that the historical disconnect between planning and execution in S&OP is best bridged by a single unified data model that allows companies to continuously synchronize their strategic, tactical and execution plans.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

Much to my chagrin, when I entered into the world of supply chain, the processes of source, make and deliver were usually not designed. Instead, I think that it needs to be holistic to balance the trade-offs of source, make and deliver together. Figure 2: Descriptions, or Metaphors, that Describe Today’s Supply Chain.

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