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What Every CFO Should Know About Aligning Finance with the Supply Chain

Logility

Finance teams speak about business issues in terms of currency and margins, while supply chain operations make decisions based on volumetric conversations around units, capacity, and lead time. The key to resolving this dilemma is unifying finance and supply chain data, processes, and systems with an Integrated Business Planning platform.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #7

Supply Chain Trend

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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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. The supply chain is a complex non-linear system. Granular data by volume is a must to be able to manage replenishment, network design, and inventory targets. Most budgets are completed in currency at a brand level.

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The Supply Chain Has Synchronization Problems

Enterra Insights

Mark Burstein ( @MarkBurstein ), President of NGC Software, insists that supply chain digitization and supply chain synchronization go hand-in-hand. In order to answer O’Meara’s question, you must understand that technology investments can only be maximized if all other supply chain investments keep pace. What Must Be Synchronized?

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Fueling Success: Career in Supply Chain Guide

SCMDOJO

It’s a fast-paced, evolving industry that has a lot of challenges, but also plenty of rewards, including a potentially lucrative income. We enable them by providing high-quality supply chain on-demand courses, guides, best practices, tools, and mentoring from industry experts.

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Supply Chain Movement 19 – Software & Leaders

Supply Chain Movement

To arrive at optimal European supply chains it is crucial to consider shifts in economic growth, currency fluctuations and tax reductions in addition to production and distribution costs. 28 | Facts & Figures: Supply Chain Software. 33 | Checklist S&OP. 34 | Dutch Supply Chain Software heroes.

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Why Automation Is the Food Industry’s Answer to Supply Chain Disruption

Logility

Supply optimization solutions enable planners to consider all constraints, costs, and capacities across the supply chain network and weigh them against current business goals. This form of advanced S&OP is known as integrated business planning (IBP).