Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 2, 2017

To align S&OP. As companies transitioned from regional to multi-national organizations, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes proliferated. The average company has seven S&OP processes, but a global chemical company averages over 30. Metrics Definition. Data Models.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 2, 2017

To align S&OP. As companies transitioned from regional to multi-national organizations, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes proliferated. Today, the average company has seven S&OP processes, but a global chemical company averages over 30. Each defining S&OP differently.

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Silvon Software

MARCH 3, 2023

Having a strong Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) strategy ensures that your forecasts, raw materials availability and production capacity all match up and that the factory floor can meet its defined deadlines. But simply putting an S&OP strategy in place isn’t enough.

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QAD

OCTOBER 11, 2023

What is Executive Management’s role in the S&OP process? First of all, the Executive Manager (EM) is part of the Roles and Responsibilities of S&OP. S&OP provides a structured, disciplined approach. The S&OP plan provides transparency regarding performance metrics.

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AIMMS

MAY 14, 2018

In fact, it’s become internalized to a degree that companies often have several (competing) S&OP pro cesses in different geographies & business units. Why is it that despite its popularity, only 42% of companies rate their S&OP process as effective? . Your S&OP solution should: .

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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. Fiercely independent and data-driven, I am never paid for my ink (either advertising or endorsements). It is one that is often asked: “S&OP How Do I Get Started?” ” S&OP: How Do I Get Started?

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AIMMS

MAY 14, 2018

In fact, it’s become internalized to a degree that companies often have several (competing) S&OP pro cesses in different geographies & business units. Why is it that despite its popularity, only 42% of companies rate their S&OP process as effective? . That was a big eye-opener for us.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 11, 2015

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is over thirty years old. With the rise of the global multi-national, S&OP increased in importance as a way to align and drive organizational balance. Companies also struggle to get to data. Today, companies do not have one S&OP solution.

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Silvon Software

MARCH 16, 2023

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is a consensus-based communications process that provides insight and control over a company’s supply chain decisions. While a manufacturing organization can have an S&OP process in place, though, it can still have issues aligning demand and supply effectively.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2015

” I think it is the most complete assessment of the S&OP value proposition I have seen in the industry. Building S&OP maturity takes time, discipline and focus. As shown in Table 1, one of the distinguishing characteristics of an effective S&OP plan is the time for planners to plan.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 2, 2017

by Alexa Cheater As Gartner Research Director Matthew Spooner noted in his recent presentation at the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference, advanced sales and operations planning (S&OP) is like a hotel. In fact, Spooner says S&OP isn’t a supply chain process at all. What exactly does that mean?

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Kinaxis

MARCH 2, 2018

Effective, efficient sales and operations planning (S&OP) means you can respond to changes faster, spot opportunities earlier and better align your organization around a common set of goals. But the benefits of S&OP extend beyond that—they help to simplify the day-to-day work of nearly everyone in your company.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2015

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is in a renaissance. With growth slowing and complexity rising, S&OP is more important than ever. It is not sexy, and it requires hard work; but the greatest value of S&OP is profitable growth. S&OP is moving to the cloud. The reason?

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 31, 2015

by Lori Smith In a previous post , I talked about the ineffectiveness of Excel, ERP, and legacy planning for S&OP. Instead, every two hours he checks the stars with a sextant, extracts data from the flight recorder about his throttle settings, and draws in the plane’s likely location on a map. It’s the same for business.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Let’s explore nine in this blog. Today’s supply chain leaders have a fascination with Artificial Intelligence (AI) but are blind to the advantages and capabilities of Web 2.0 Companies have data lakes, but do not use their own data. The world of NoSQL unified data models is inconceivable to most.

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Unleashed

JULY 10, 2023

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is the process of aligning demand planning with supply planning and financial planning to create an integrated business strategy. Other benefits of Sales and Operations Planning include: Happier customers: A high-functioning S&OP team supports better decision-making at the executive level.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Interest in sales and operations planning (S&OP) always runs high in times of economic uncertainty, so I’ve been fielding a lot of questions the last couple years from clients on how to do S&OP. The proliferation of alternative terms for S&OP has added to the confusion. What is S&OP?

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Logility

AUGUST 5, 2021

Integrated business planning ( IBP ) is gaining a lot of traction as more companies seek to advance their sales and operations planning (S&OP) process. Cash-Cash Cycle Time; Return on SC Fixed Assets; Return on Working Capital ASCM SCOR Metrics, Supply Chain Council. For example: Verify your strategy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

For organizations layered in functional metrics and driving a cost agenda, this is a tough nut to crack. S&OP is too slow and cannot achieve the needed alignment. Process latency, the time for an organization to make a decision using a traditional S&OP process, is two-to-six weeks.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

by Lori Smith In a previous post , I discussed the sometimes surprising technology choices some organizations are making to manage their S&OP process. We know that successful S&OP must be fed by solid and complete information from across the extended supply chain and supported by robust advanced planning analytics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Today, I am again teaching an open class on outside-in planning concept s. In today’s training class, we focused on determining the balanced scorecard. Based on the work with Georgia Tech, we are getting clear on which metrics matter by industry. If not, let’s pack more hamburger. The reason?

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Logility

JANUARY 26, 2024

However, this year promises a significant paradigm shift where traditional performance metrics are replaced by technology-driven frameworks, as recent breakthroughs with Generative AI in supply chains have demonstrated. Enter our list of supply chain trends for 2024.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2022

To entice you to participate let’s look at the data more closely. These gaps cannot be closed by a simple focus on S&OP or the implementation of a technology. Focusing on transactions at the expense of understanding and harvesting insights from market data resulted in implementing the wrong set of controls.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

” Let’s start with a definition. Instead, I think we should build outside-in planning processes to better use real-time and market data and build effective networks. Let’s examine each dead-end street: Control Tower. Yes, the supply chain is awash with real-time data. ” Miriam Webster.

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ThroughPut

MAY 25, 2021

How To Leverage The Benefits Of S&OP For The Food And Beverage Industry? An effective Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process can do the trick. S&OP helps you keep a close eye on financial and business impact, prompting better decisions across teams through carefully planned strategies.

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ThroughPut

MAY 25, 2021

An effective Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process can do the trick. Supply chain-focused organizations like the food and beverages industry can turn the tide with an efficient S&OP process and improve their overall business performance. . All you need to know about the stages of S&OP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups. Reward teams for cross-functional metrics. This is the goal of this post.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Reason #7 Making decisions based on bad data (supply chain data accuracy). Reason #9 Relentless pursuit of one supply chain metric at the expense of other metrics. Yet, these are similar instructions as what is passed down to the supply chain from executives focused on a specific supply chain metric.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2024

The companies with the strongest year-over-year performance (placing in the winner’s circle for six more times in ten years) are Apple, L’Oreal, Nike, Paccar, TJX, and TSMC. The group’s response is, “Are these supply chain metrics?” Most will be surprised when I share the data. The reason?

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Logility

JULY 31, 2015

In Part 1: An S&OP Q&A with SCM World’s Kevin O’Marah we discussed the drivers impacting S&OP, the value of the process and the changing rhythm of S&OP meetings. What is in your conversations with them that is different from those who are just starting and S&OP process?

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 7, 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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Kinaxis

JULY 14, 2014

Supply Chain Metrics That Matter: A Focus on Aerospace and Defense. In Supply Chain Metrics That Matter: A Focus on Aerospace and Defense , Supply Chain Insights benchmarks A&D companies against other industries and dives into data from five top A&D companies over the last decade. Get the research.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 24, 2022

One of my stark realizations this year is that smaller companies are beating larger and often more established companies on growth metrics, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). (In The metrics selection resulted from work with Arizona State University in 2013.) The data is available.

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Logility

APRIL 13, 2021

Is it identical to sales and operations Planning (S&OP), an extension of it, or something altogether separate? Call it what you want, IBP is probably best thought of as mature S&OP. 2) Poor or Non-Existent Data Governance. What is the goal of your S&OP process? A GPS for your business?

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Supply Chain Trend

JULY 22, 2018

PREVIEW In their three-part Foresight series entitled “Misconceptions, Missteps, and Bad Practices in S&OP,” ( Foresight issues 46, 47, 48) Chris Gray and John Dougherty expose a baker’s dozen of blunders blocking the road to an effective S&OP process. . S&OP Is the New Name for ERP.

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Logility

MARCH 21, 2024

However, AI is based on artificial intelligence and machine learning methodologies that have continuously evolved since the 1950’s. Myth 2: Generative AI is unable to keep your data private One of our top concerns is that clients have complete confidence that their data is safe and secure.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

The question was, “How can I redefine demand planning processes to use channel data?” They believed that retail data would help consumer products companies (which I agree with in concept) and that the retail forecast can be closely coupled–tightly integrated– to drive a better signal (which I disagree with).

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