DynaSys

DECEMBER 8, 2021

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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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, having an efficient supply chain department is more important than ever. A streamlined supply chain can make a significant impact on the overall success of a business, improving operational efficiency, increasing customer satisfaction, and driving revenue growth.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In September of 2020, the company hired Jeff Baker to be their Vice President of Procurement and Integrated Supply Chain. Mr. Baker spent over 34 years leading procurement teams at The Dow Chemical Company. Baker was promoted to Vice President of Shared Services and tasked with creating a centralized supply chain organization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Definition: “Someone’s efforts, resolve, or viability are tested; things are meaningfully challenging. The supply chain team’s past thirty-two months of disruption were a long, winding road full of surprises. ” Following the announcement, Ford’s stock closed at the lowest valuation in eleven years.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 28, 2015

The demand for software solutions for sales & operations planning (S&OP) in particular is attracting new players, and cloud-based supply chain software solutions appear to be making a breakthrough. 24 | Management: Forecasting noise disturbs S&OP process. 33 | Overview S&OP software in Europe.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Let’s Start with Definitions: One of the difficulties in supply chain is the lack of common definitions. To help the reader, let’s start with definitions used in our research: Efficiency. A supply chain that produces products at the same cost, quality and customer service given the level of demand and supply volatility.

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QAD

MAY 31, 2023

In today’s fast-paced business environment, companies need to be agile and responsive to meet the changing demands of customers while maintaining profitability because making trade offs between efficiency, agility and resilience will fail. In this blog, we will discuss why an S&OP process is critical in supply chain planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. Still, organizations are less willing to test and try technology innovation due to the restrictions and guide rails placed on software procurement and deployment. ” Let’s set the stage. Focus on Cost. Less Collaborative.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2023

Without a dependable forecast on what would be bought, contract manufacturers could not do effective capacity planning or procurement. Jordan formed a team of demand planners and introduced the concept of sale & operational planning (S&OP). S&OP forecasts are not just for the coming month but go out many months.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. Still, organizations are less willing to test and try technology innovation due to the restrictions and guide rails placed on software procurement and deployment. Focus on Cost. A Decline in Innovation. Less Collaborative. His response?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. The number one question that I am asked today by manufacturers across all industries is “How can I improve customer service?” Here are nine considerations: #1 S&OP Budget Constraints. Background. The takeaway?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting. Coupa Introduces a Supply Chain Collaboration Network Solution Coupa has claimed that their platform unifies processes across procurement, finance, and supply chain functions.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Here’s the rub. Mindy Davis , SAP’s Vice President of Global Marketing for the Digital Supply Chain, explains, “Supply chains need to be risk-resilient and efficient. They need to take into account cost, speed, profit, customer service, and risk. 4] Rashid, op.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over the last five years, I have helped two companies, Sonoco Products and Owens Illinois (OI) with their selection of technologies to improve Sales and Operations (S&OP) planning. Sonoco Products, on the other hand, had a clear objective to maximize asset utilization while improving customer service for strategic customers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Spiraling transportation costs, tariff shifts and increased expectations for customer service sparks new interest in supply chain planning. Outsourcing–procurement, manufacturing and transportation– decreased visibility and increased data latency. 4) S&OP Feasibility. On customer service?

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ThroughPut

APRIL 21, 2022

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a critical business process instrumental to realizing continued growth in any industry. To ensure alignment between business goals and operational plans as well as optimal business performance, it’s essential to get S&OP right. Here are our top nine.

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Logility

AUGUST 23, 2021

The automation of supply chain planning offers an opportunity to leverage both the tactical and strategic sides of the sales and operations planning (S&OP) process to sense and respond to dynamic market changes faster and with greater flexibility. This form of advanced S&OP is known as integrated business planning (IBP).

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DynaSys

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

On October 1st, QAD DynaSys was honored to be able to host SICPA’s “S&OP & Collaborative Planning” workshop in Lausanne, Switzerland. Mauro Ferri, SICPA Supply Chain and Procurement Director welcomed everyone with a short intro, followed by SICPA’s key insights into the day’s subject.

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Supply Chain Movement

DECEMBER 14, 2015

“We are evolving towards a more customer centric supply chain”. Pierre Mille, VP Group Planning & Customer Service Excellence, Carlsberg Group. For Pierre Mille, VP Group Planning & Customer Service Excellence, this was an opportunity to unleash its untapped value. By helen Armstrong.

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QAD

MARCH 6, 2024

Enterprises need to seamlessly optimize these three challenges for effective customer service. Accurate forecasting models become ever more critical to meet customer demand as companies add more product lines and the value chain expands. Now, let’s deep dive into the key steps of the demand planner function.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2013

They also are clear that the supply chain is defined outside-in based on the channel requirements and the underlying rhythms and cycles of fulfillment, manufacturing and procurement. The executive focus should be on the output of strategic planning into the tactical process of S&OP. Technology Evolution.

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Logility

MARCH 29, 2018

To succeed in today’s hyper-competitive market, F&B companies must build a strong foundation of flexible supply chain processes, run by knowledgeable and experienced people and enabled by integrated and agile systems. Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP).

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Evolving customer behaviors and expectations (41%), improving customer service levels/order fill rate (39%), and driving business performance (e.g. Drivers of supply chain planning digitization vary significantly by company, with 42% identifying increased operational efficiencies (e.g. About Spinnaker.

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QAD

MARCH 9, 2023

Build an end-to-end supply chain model inclusive of procurement, production, distribution, and sales activities to pinpoint exactly where cost increases are coming from. QAD DSCP’s Financial Planning and Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) capabilities are particularly useful for implementing best practices.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 20, 2018

Companies that achieve balanced scorecard results–above their peer group in cost, growth, customer service, inventory, and asset management–are good at horizontal processes (revenue management, S&OP, new product launch, and supplier development). Let’s not repeat the mistake of the last decade.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Importance Versus Effectiveness of Demand and S&OP Planning Solutions. This allows shared services of procurement and transportation to function smoothly to achieve the economies of scale. 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 Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Those without any chutzpah define the “supply chain” as an organizational function that focuses only on distribution, manufacturing and procurement. Many supply chain teams have aggressively cut costs to fund an organization’s growth. Similarly, I love the results of Hershey and the work of Jason Reiman’s team.

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Logility

JANUARY 22, 2014

This blog post is in response to recent results from the APICS/Logility Survey, Consumer Goods S&OP research, and ChainLink’s end-user research. They had faster turns, lower inventory, and better customer service. I recently read a very good survey by Consumer Goods Technology , focused on S&OP.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 23, 2019

You deployed ERP for procurement and order management, S&OP tools for sales and operations, WMS to automate your warehouses. They’re integrating planning and execution to power smart procurement, autonomous logistics and warehousing. You put in a TMS for logistics management, scheduling, and track & trace.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 14, 2021

We had to break them up into a lot of different modules, such as production management, order management, procurement, MRP, etc. It’s why it can assign the driver to the customer, optimize the assets, provide full visibility and control, and have automatic failover. That’s a business network operation.

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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.

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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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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2017

Supply chain mistakes like the five common examples I’m about to reveal , all have the potential to handicap business performance—which is why your company should avoid them (or address them if it’s too late for avoidance). Do you have customers which aren’t profitable at all? High CTS/low revenue yield – WHAT?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 29, 2016

New Year’s Eve is a time for parties. In the process, facts become gray and what’s ‘true’ is uncertain. To gain competitive economies of scale and drive the segmented response, the back office operations–procurement, manufacturing and transportation–are automated and effective.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2013

Some days when I need a pick-me-up, I watch the videos of Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests. In this research, we define an agile organization as one that is designed to withstand the levels of demand and supply volatility and deliver the same levels of cost, quality and customer service. I like art, and love unusual sculpture.

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DynaSys

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The overall objective of network design is to develop the most efficient network possible, meet your customers’ service requirements, and accomplish this at the lowest viable cost. Challenges will continue to pop up stemming from regional outbreaks, partners and customers having financial difficulties, and related issues.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 28, 2020

” Alex Saric ( @alexsaric ), a procurement expert at Ivalua, told Eason, “There is a huge appetite to develop cognitive supply chains, which is only set to increase as more success stories come to light. The outcome can be better, personalized customer service with lower inventories and a better utilization of factory hours.”

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