Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. Here are nine considerations: #1 S&OP Budget Constraints. The Role of the Budget in S&OP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

A Participant’s View of the River of Demand In a Large Consumer Organization. While Figure 1 is the planner’s view, Figure 2 shows the executive’s mental model. S&OP becomes a Ferris Wheel of activity, creating a Deadpool of information. Procurement Operates On An Island. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Founded in 2000, Steelwedge was an innovator in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and was an early provider of cloud solutions for supply chain. ” The company’s press release rhetoric is bullish. ” I struggled to understand how a company focused just on S&OP could be viable.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

At the conference, I was fortunate to see a presentation from Brent Wilson, Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain at Qualcomm. The solution was implemented in 2012 in order to deliver a comprehensive sales and operations planning (S&OP) solution that was able to move into execution with high integrity.

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Supply Chain Movement

JANUARY 13, 2014

So mark your calendar with the relevant supply chain conferences. Procurement Transformation Summit. American Conference. Logistics & Supply Chain Conference. Advanced S&OP for Life Sciences Event. ECR Europe Conference. Best of the Best S&OP Conference. 29-31 January.

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Supply Chain Movement

JANUARY 6, 2016

So mark your calendar with the relevant supply chain conferences. 3rd S&OP in Russia and CIS. 12th Edition Advancing S&OP to IBP. Logy Conference. Sedex Conference. SCM & Optimization Conference. Turkey Trade & Export Finance Conference 2016. 25-28 January. 27-29 January.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

Functional silos define today’s supply chain organization. My first job was in manufacturing in the 1980’s. Inside-out processes assume that the order represents demand, and that the supply chain’s role ends with a perfect shipment. The silos compete. They lack alignment. This is not an easy transition.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Importance Versus Effectiveness of Demand and S&OP Planning Solutions. If a planning project short-circuits the conference room pilot stages, it will be difficult to ever maximize the value from the investment. In the last three years the company has embarked on a path to improve Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP).

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Supply Chain Movement

DECEMBER 17, 2014

So mark your calendar with the relevant supply chain conferences. 11th Edition Advancing S&OP to Integrated Business Planning. Supply Chain Management & Optimization Conference. 13th annual supply chain standard Logistics & Supply Chain Conference. 9th Turkey Trade & Export Finance Conference.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Over the course of the last two years, we at Supply Chain Insight s have worked on a methodology to gauge supply chain improvement. Any time you make a significant change or improvement, its essential to understand the culture of your organization when developing an approach. We named it the Supply Chain Index.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2016

I will also pen my 95th report for this week’s Supply Chain Insight’s newsletter. It is one that is often asked: “S&OP How Do I Get Started?” ” S&OP: How Do I Get Started? I asked, “Why is S&OP important to your business?”

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Logility

MARCH 2, 2011

Luckily, this March our annual customer conference will be in Orlando, away from the cold weather and under the sun. OK, enough about dreaming of warmer days … Connections 2011 is set to be our largest user conference to date with record registrations and 25 percent more sessions to accommodate our growing audience.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Seemingly, most supply chain leaders that are reading the press, or going to industry conferences, would believe that all four statements are true. Over the course of the last decade, I have carefully recorded and reported presentation after presentation from conference after conference and interview after interview with supply chain leaders.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 18, 2015

The practices are still emerging and have morphed dramatically over the course of the supply chain leader’s career. For perspective, let’s look back at history. In discrete industries, the early supply chain organizations reported to procurement. Looking Back at History. The goal was efficiency.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 29, 2015

The 3PL Summit is the one event that you can’t afford to miss: The 3PL Summit has been the industry’s cornerstone conference and annual meeting-place for 14 years in a row. Virginie Vast, Head of Vodafone Asset Management Services & Tactical Sourcing from Vodafone Procurement Company.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

A poor procurement choice based on stale data can lead to a decline in profits. From our eBook, S&OP in the 21st century , “An audit of 50 corporate spreadsheets in 2007 revealed that 94% had errors… one for $100 million!” There is a major issue with the lack of revision control and auditing. That won’t end well.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 1, 2016

The reading audience is global, and spans a wide variety of roles: procurement, supply chain strategy and planning, product management, logistics and transportation, customer service, and others. We talked to Bob to see what we might learn from that experience. What is the makeup of your blog audience? Oh, by the way, I do not own a Ferrari.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In the last 30 years S&OP improved performance in many businesses. However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. Worse, overall S&OP development and progress seems to have stalled.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Professionals with S&OP experience in retail who speak Spanish and live in Canada. And many software users also have a short-sighted perspective of cloud, viewing it simply as a procurement option, no different than deciding between buying a car or leasing it. It’s not what we do ,” is their usual response.

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BlueYonder

MAY 10, 2019

Each year in late April or early May, JDA team members, along with 2000 or more customers and partners, get together for our annual customer conference. McKesson, the oldest and largest healthcare company in the United States, needed to overhaul its procurement function with a redefined supply chain strategy.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To accomplish this, you require the skills of supply chain experts who can manage the complexity and difficulties of today’s global supply chains. Primarily focused on Supply Chain, Warehousing, Logistics, S&OP and Inventory Management. We introduce the top 20 supply chain specialist you should hire in this blog.

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JDA software

MAY 10, 2019

Each year in late April or early May, JDA team members, along with 2000 or more customers and partners, get together for our annual customer conference. McKesson, the oldest and largest healthcare company in the United States, needed to overhaul its procurement function with a redefined supply chain strategy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2015

Four years ago, I was in Europe attending a conference. As a result, if inventory is is arbitrarily reduced you can hurt the company’s ability to meet orders. As a result, use the S&OP process as an input for budget revisions, but do not constrain the S&OP process based on the budget.

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Arkieva

MARCH 31, 2017

Talks of creating a supply chain have slowly transformed into a catchphrase that’s often touted at Supply chain conferences and lengthy S&OP meetings. Procurement, logistics, and manufacturing are combined into a single Supply or Operations organization. And it’s not because it’s a difficult concept to understand.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

They also enable the evaluation of networks for both sales and procurement relationships to optimize the flows upstream and downstream. Next week I will be speaking at the Llamasoft Summercon conference (follow this link to see the slides). I would infuse it into S&OP, risk management, and supplier development.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Fall is conference season, and this year, with pent-up post-pandemic energy to return to events, I hit the trail to share insights on the value of outside-in supply chain planning along with recent research on the current state of supply chain management. ” Let’s start with a definition. Procurement/Buyers Workbench.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2022

Inflation is today’s reality. …or long laborious discussions of the differences between Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP). Today’s processes are inside-out not outside-in. Let’s examine the market reality by looking at a peer group.

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Shipchain

DECEMBER 17, 2019

He authors the Veridian blog, many posts of which have been featured in Op-Eds in the Wall Street Journal, Logistics Management magazine, the Cerasis blog and more. His works include podcasts, e-books, whitepapers, case studies, infographics and personalized presentations for major supply chain conferences. Adam Robinson. and abroad.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2016

…for 8:00 AM strategy meeting(s) with clients.) To use the Barnes example, in this blog post, let’s focus on simplicity. Let’s start with a definition. Companies with a deep focus on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) will often default to this definition. What is integrated planning?

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