New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Introduction After receiving numerous comments on my recent blog about sales and operations planning (S&OP), I’ve been inspired to delve deeper into the subject. I’ve decided to create a series of follow-up blogs regarding the intricacies of executing an S&OP process and utilizing related software.

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S&OP Supply Chain Planning Software Supply and Demand Demand Planning Software 52

AIMMS

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Throughout the years, we’ve witnessed waves of interest in S&OP and its evolution IBP, which incorporates financial planning. In the past 2 years, we’ve seen the appeal of S&OP increase a lot more. But companies tend to struggle when it comes to finding the right technology to enable the process.

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S&OP Prescriptive Analytics Software Supply Chain Planning Software Supply and Demand 156

Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Let’s Start With Clear Definitions My inbox is full. Let’s have fun! Let’s start with the definitions: Graph AI uses Machine Learning on graph-based technology to understand the relationships between variables to drive insights. Graph technology leverages graph structures to represent and store data.

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Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software Modeling Supply and Demand 408

AIMMS

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Throughout the years, we’ve witnessed waves of interest in S&OP and its evolution IBP, which incorporates financial planning. In the past 2 years, we’ve seen the appeal of S&OP increase a lot more. But companies tend to struggle when it comes to finding the right technology to enable the process.

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S&OP Prescriptive Analytics Software Supply Chain Planning Software Supply and Demand 132

Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 18, 2019

I spent time this week completing reference calls on the use of S&OP technologies. Seeking the next sequel in technology adoption, I want to write how the confluence of new technologies changed companies’ abilities to improve decisions. Companies average ten ERP and five Advanced Planning Solutions.

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S&OP Supply and Demand Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software 186

Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 19, 2021

The Process of Software Selection. I am constantly amazed that business leaders can engage with technologists month after month (often over eight and sometimes over a year) to select a supply chain planning system and then call me to ask for help on the decision. And, what are you trying to model? My struggle?

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Supply Chain Planning Software Purchasing Training Eliminating Excel in Purchasing Demand Planning Software 195

Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The supply chain space is heavily laden with acronyms, gobbledygook, false narratives, and over-hyped, fast-talking technology sales teams. Let’s take an example. Let’s take another example. I have built five such systems for companies. Matching demand and supply in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP).

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Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Planning Software Manufacturing Procurement Modeling 379

Logility

AUGUST 5, 2021

Food and beverage companies that engage in sales and operations planning (S&OP) and act on those strategies early are the ones that can safeguard their profitability, satisfy consumers, and operate more responsively than their competition. Yielding Winning Outcomes in a Field of Uncertainty. Improved customer satisfaction.

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S&OP Supply and Demand Beverage Optimal Sourcing 130

Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2024

The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team. Engineers could sign up for hour-long blocks to use the new systems. Why Jump Now?

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Inventory Reduction Supply Chain Planning Software Cost Reduction Strategies Supply Chain Design Software 424

Logility

AUGUST 31, 2023

This experience is not only frustrating industry executives – it’s compelling them to reassess their sales and operations planning (S&OP) process. The company uplifted distributes products to stores based on customer demand forecasts, raising service level improvements to 97% and reducing finished goods inventory by 13%.

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Consumer Goods Network Optimization Software Optimal Sourcing Inventory Reduction 185

Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 15, 2020

Changing My Mental Model. As the COVID-19 saga unfolded, this was my mental model. The first step is to stop traditional demand planning processes based on conventional order pattern modeling. This is the ouput of the conventional Advanced Planning models.) Stop Doing. What can we stop doing?

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Supply Chain Planning Software Supply and Demand Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning 497

Kinaxis

AUGUST 5, 2016

Puricelli Last month, I launched a new blog series on sales and operations planning (S&OP). I outlined a number of important topics I plan to explore this summer. Building upon my post about the ownership of S&OP , it’s time to talk about defining the operating model for S&OP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2023

In Figure 1, I share a supply chain planning taxonomy or what I lovingly term an old-fashioned jalopy. Each box has an optimizer that drives output from a model based on a functional definition using enterprise data. There is no unifying data model; all items are treated equally, regardless of the flow. Is the plan feasible?

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Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Planning Software Supply and Demand Manufacturing Procurement 336

Logility

AUGUST 16, 2022

a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, today announced its recognition as one of SupplyChainBrain ’s 2022 100 Great Supply Chain Partners. We benefited greatly from the industry expertise at Logility and from their local implementation partner Demand Management Systems.

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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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S&OP Supply and Demand Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Planning 52

AIMMS

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When applied to S&OP and IBP, modeling and optimization enable you to balance out scenarios and perform what-if analyses so you can analyze how these different scenarios will affect your inventory and/or cost. You can do all of this and more with an optimization technology. But how does it work in practice?

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Optimal Sourcing Modeling S&OP Supply and Demand 120

Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Today, I am again teaching an open class on outside-in planning concept s. Over the next five weeks, seventy business/technology and consulting leaders will complete the course. Can you describe the outside-in model? Shown in Figure 1 is the definition of the layers of outside-in planning. What defines maturity?

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Modeling Supply and Demand Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Planning Software 215

Adexa

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Let’s face it S&OP is only a visibility tool for long term planning. All the heavy lifting is done by the planners manually trying to make a long-term plan work for actual short-term execution. This maybe a step above spreadsheet planning but it is far from being on a path to digitalization. Seriously!?

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S&OP Supply and Demand Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Planning Software 58

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. If those aren’t the right tools for the job, what is? The four keys to highly effective S&OP are: East-West integration – bringing together demand and supply planning.

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S&OP Supply and Demand Supply Chain Planning Software Los Angeles 100

Logility

JUNE 8, 2021

ATLANTA (June 8, 2021) American Software, Inc. million for the same period last year, and Software license revenues were $1.2 million for the same period last year, while Software license revenues were $3.0 million for the same period last year, reflecting our continued transition to the SaaS engagement model.

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Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software Demand Planning Software Optimization Software 130

Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 16, 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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S&OP Supply and Demand Supply Chain Planning Software Resource Reduction 115

Logility

JULY 14, 2015

We’ve seen many companies reach plateaus in their S&OP maturity. For some organizations, the momentum slows shortly after they successfully balance demand and supply volumes. It’s the point where executive sponsorship becomes crucial. It’s the point where executive sponsorship becomes crucial.

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S&OP Modeling Supply and Demand Demand Planning Software 101

o9 Solutions

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Demand Planning: Improve Forecast Accuracy, Alignment and Accountability. Top Reasons Organizations are Upgrading their Demand Planning Capabilities. Increasing automation of forecasting using predictive analytics models. Increasing sales adoption in the demand planning process. Demand Planning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

Pete Bennett, and his co-presenter, Mary Byrne, the vice president of supply and demand planning, spoke during a presentation at Kinaxis’ user conference Kinexions. A previous supply planning implementation, of an SCP system from a different supplier, had not gone well. Implementing supply planning solutions is hard.

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Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software Predictive Analytics Software Modeling Software 178

Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 13, 2020

Preview In his 2019 Foresight article, Niels van Hove examined eight technological hurdles that must be overcome to enable autonomous or ‘lights out’ supply-chain planning. He reasoned that to support such planning we need to implement a third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software. Key Points.

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Supply Chain Software Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software Forecasting Software 147

Logility

JULY 20, 2023

Good forecasting leads to good demand planning —and good demand planning means better profitability. That’s why it’s essential to be sure you’re equipping your organization with the right demand planning software. What is demand planning software?

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Supply and Demand Supply Chain Planning Software Demand Planning Software Forecasting Software 187

AIMMS

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When applied to S&OP and IBP, modeling and optimization enable you to balance out scenarios and perform what-if analyses so you can analyze how these different scenarios will affect your inventory and/or cost. You can do all of this and more with an optimization technology. But how does it work in practice?

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Optimal Sourcing Modeling Optimization Modeling Modeling Software 156

o9 Solutions

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Inefficient planning systems, with siloed data, and disconnected processes produce inaccurate forecasts. Which parts of your demand planning processes are most broken or need the most improvement? Understanding your planning maturity is the best pathway to resolving these system, data, process and resource challenges.

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Supply and Demand Demand Planning Modeling Optimal Sourcing 52

Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

All you need is the right supply chain management software – one that enables concurrent planning. Concurrent planning isn’t a collection of disconnected functional models. Condense the assessment of demand plan variation from 2 weeks to minutes – With the 14 or so days you’d save, you could film an entire movie.

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Supply Chain Planning Software Modeling Scenario Planning Supply Chain Planning 379

Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Let’s look at some of the market trends to understand the severity: Lumber prices skyrocketed 60% in the last six months. For years Campbells strove to grow the soup category only to lose share in the soup category due to limited manufacturing capacity for the Swanson’s brand. Let’s call her Mary. The impact?

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Supply Chain Planning Software Supply and Demand Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Software 438

Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2023

Traditionally, planning processes are designed to serve specific time horizons – sales & operations execution (S&OE) is used for short term horizon, sales & operations planning (S&OP) for the mid-term horizon, and integrated business planning (IBP) for long term strategic horizon.

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Supply Chain Planning Software Modeling Scenario Planning Supply Chain Planning 200

Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Then it was a new and promising technology category. As a result, software sales slowed. The growth of the supply chain planning technology market disappointed investors resulting in consolidation and the decline of best-of-breed solutions. No one held the technology providers responsible. Do You Have A Good Plan?

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Supply Chain Planning Software Forecasting Software Supply Chain Planning Demand Planning Software 203

ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Gartner has identified five stages of supply chain planning maturity and they say that 70-80% of companies plan to increase their supply chain planning (SCP) technology spend over the next two years to climb to the next level. Build more resilient supply chain plans (e.g., They want higher-fidelity plans.

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Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Planning Scenario Planning Modeling 168

Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2015

In my research, I answer questions like: Which technology systems drive the greatest satisfaction? How satisfied are users with supply chain planning technologies? While each technology provider wants the endorsement of their approach, I remain independent. How Happy are Planners with Their Software?

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Supply Chain Planning Software Demand Planning Software Supply Chain Software Analytics Software 150

Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 26, 2016

The supply chain software industry is in a considerable state of flux. as the advance of e-commerce continues, companies with an omnichannel approach are increasingly implementing specific order management systems. Grandvision has grand plans. 35 | Facts & Figures: S&OP and support IT.

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Supply and Demand S&OP Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Software 60

Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 2, 2020

Transactional systems are very black and white. When compared to the S&OP plan, how did the mix change? How is the baseline for demand shifting with the spread of the virus? How does this compare to the S&OP plan? The supply chain is a complex non-linear system.

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Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Supply and Demand Supply Chain Design 264

Logility

MAY 12, 2020

Then as is now, there are certain critical components of a strong supply chain planning foundation. In supply chain planning that equates to developing robust demand planning capabilities. A highly accurate forecast of demand makes all supply chain planning and execution more efficient and effective.

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