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Seven Mistakes to Avoid in Sales and Operations Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is important to building value chain agility and improving enterprise performance. Agility is the ability to have the same performance in cost, quality, and customer service given a level of demand and supply volatility.) Figure 2: S&OP Process Balance.

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Getting Ready for 2017: Reflections on Telling Lies

Supply Chain Shaman

The gloomy streets will soon be alive with Mummers to ring in the New Year in Philadelphia. The Mummers Parade is a Philadelphia tradition. New Year’s Eve is a time for parties. In the process, facts become gray and what’s ‘true’ is uncertain. S&OP: Five Steps to Get Started.

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Think Differently. Drive New Outcomes. Let Us Help You Build A Guiding Coalition.

Supply Chain Insights

We can help by testing customer satisfaction and sharing what matters by channel partner. We will test to understand how you stack-up to your competitors and how to make customer service actionable. Customer Centric Policies. The game is designed to simulate an S&OP environment. 1200 per person.

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Be Careful What You Ask For

Supply Chain Shaman

Let’s call her Sally. Each recommended a supply chain planning system tightly integrated to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) along with collaborative planning with sales in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). As shown in Figure 1, today’s processes are controlled, but lack agility. They got it.

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American Software Reports Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2022 Results

Logility

During the quarter, SaaS subscription and/or software license agreements were signed with customers located in the following 6 countries: Belgium, Canada, France, Mexico, New Zealand, and United States. wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company, were recognized as SupplyChainBrain ’s 2021 100 Great Supply Chain Partners. Logility, Inc.

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Wanted: Supply Chain Architects!

Supply Chain Shaman

Figure 2: Descriptions, or Metaphors, that Describe Today’s Supply Chain. For clarity, let’s start with a definition. This is often coupled with Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes. This week, I will host our monthly webinar on S&OP: Why is it So Hard? Want to connect?

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My Take: The Role of Anaplan in Defining the Art of the Possible in Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

In my travels, I see companies stuck in a quagmire of arguments focused on the standardization on yesterday’s technologies versus the adoption of new approaches. The Anaplan team has more experience and knowledge in financial and customer-service planning than supply chain. Redefining Planning. Planning for the Masses.