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Supply Chain Normalcy? Think Again.

Supply Chain Shaman

Growing tensions between China and trading partners. S&OP is too slow and cannot achieve the needed alignment. Process latency, the time for an organization to make a decision using a traditional S&OP process, is two-to-six weeks. Build in-market sourcing. Over four-hundred days of war in Ukraine.

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Essilor – The secret of a global & robust S&OP process

DynaSys

In this last article of our series dedicated to Digital Supply Chain Planning, you will find out how Essilor moved to an agile and resilient supply chain and guided its digital transformation, through an interview with David Bourgoin, Essilor’s S&OP referential supervisor. Our monthly S&OP turned into a weekly S&OP.

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Your Trade War Survival Secret: Sales and Operations Planning – Part 2

DynaSys

When we left our account of mid-market manufacturer Superior Thermodynamics (ST), the company was weathering a tremendous escalation of the US-China trade war and faced the following questions: . S&OP Process Supported by Cloud-Based Planning Software. How can ST maintain service levels and therefore retain accounts?

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People-Centric Transformations, Building Sustainable Supply Chains and Cognition – The Next Frontier in Supply Chains

BlueYonder

Next up, Puneet moderated a panel discussion that featured Ryan Inouye, Vice President of Supply Chain at Western Digital; Jen Guda, Supply Chain Management IT Director at Analog Devices; and Mohan Dhamodaran, Senior Director of Supply Chain Management and S&OP at Marvell.

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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

I said, “that’s fine, I’ll take that one”. Manufacturing sites have been rationalized in terms of, “we don’t need five factories in this country, we only need three, then two, then we don’t need them at all, we’ll move them to China”. I answered by asking which one pays the most. That’s been a massive trend.

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Lars Syberg : “Taming Tigers’ supply chain is a real challenge”

Supply Chain Movement

I’ve been setting up a simple S&OP process that involves the expansion, procurement, finance and supply chain departments. Our monthly S&OP chats have already improved transparency and stabilised the situation. 80% of our products are manufactured in China and we have a lead-time of six to eight months.

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COVID-19 in 2021: Supply Chain Organizations’ Biggest Concerns

DynaSys

Earlier, production issues in China caused global shortages of antibiotics and other pharma products. Understand their sources of income. Find a set of reliable demand signals, as noted above under Demand, to determine essential supply and inventory – agreed to in your S&OP process.