ToolsGroup

JULY 10, 2018

Computing power and storage capacity have grown exponentially, while the cost of both have plummeted. More and better data has turned demand analytics into mainstream reality. Demand Planning often supports sales and operations planning (S&OP) initiatives. Let’s take a few minutes to decode it. Demand Planning.

Supply and Demand 120

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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. 71% think we need more industry standards around S&OP.

S&OP 60

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Nick strongly believes that it is insufficient to drive supply chain improvement through incrementalism. It is just not enough to do a software upgrade or slowly push continuous improvement projects. Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. The reason?

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 28, 2016

Google’s 2014 purchase of the British firm Deep Mind for something more than $ 400 million produced a bonanza of publicity earlier this year, when its game playing program whipped a human master of the ancient strategy game Go. We have adjusted to their presence very quickly, haven’t we? Will they make all of us obsolete someday?

Logistics Network Optimization Software 120

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

It’s a fast-paced, evolving industry that has a lot of challenges, but also plenty of rewards, including a potentially lucrative income. We have Courses like S&OP deployment, Supply Chain Digitalization , , and Negotiation in Procurement. Here’s an easy way to learn how to apply it to Supply Chain.

Supply Chain Planning Software 98

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ThroughPut

MARCH 18, 2024

Even though there’s plenty of data out there, it’s still a pretty manual process to get the data ready and analyzed, which drastically slows decision making down. This is exactly where the new wave of Analytics and Data Intelligence Platforms , highlighted by Gartner, comes into the picture.

Prescriptive Analytics Software 52

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DynaSys

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Too much inventory and you are tying cash up and restricting the ability to invest in growth and continuous improvement. Especially if the sales forecast was difficult to predict in the first place. . For purchased products, you must factor in the capability and limitations of external suppliers to meet the requirements.

Optimal Sourcing 98

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Elementum

JUNE 10, 2019

“There’s S&OP… and then there’s the real world.” — Gartner Research. While organizations spend 30% of their time doing sales & operations planning in the “liquid zone”, they spend 70% of their time with actual sales & operations execution (S&OE) in the “frozen zone”. Continuing Improvement.

Supply Chain Planning Software 60

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 14, 2018

Wholesalers in particular, seem to find it easy to fall into this trap, often as a result of making huge purchases of a single product to take advantage of bulk quantity discounts. Some common-sense metrics to apply at goods receiving include “truck time at the unloading dock” and “time from receiving to putaway.”

Warehousing 97

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 1, 2025

Least attention is paid to this category for the purpose of stock control and planning and procurement decisions for such items may be automated. Acknowledgement: In purchasing, acknowledgement is the term used to describe a suppliers confirmation that the buyers purchase order has been received, and hence, that the order is accepted.

Supply Chain Planning Software 76

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Wholesalers in particular, seem to find it easy to fall into this trap, often as a result of making huge purchases of a single product to take advantage of bulk quantity discounts. Some common-sense metrics to apply at goods receiving include “truck time at the unloading dock” and “time from receiving to putaway.”

Warehousing 74

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Now as any architect will tell you, it’s a mistake to build on top of wonky pillars, so throughout this post, we’ll concentrate on aligning the three supply chain pillars … and the benefits of doing so. It’s because that’s what drives confidence and satisfaction among all your business stakeholders.

Inventory Reduction 40

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2016

It starts with the needs of the customer’s customer and flows through the extended supply network. Demand is seen as a fixed set of numbers, and as a result, the team’s focus is on numbers without understanding the drivers of the markets. The Maturity Model of Flow Definitions within Supply Chain Management.

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