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MAY 20, 2024

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 23, 2023

In 2012, I published an article on Sales and Operations Technology (S&OP) Maturity. (I At the time, one of the people (let’s call him Noel) that I great respect for in the industry called me to say, “Lora, I don’t get it. Let’s start with a definition of concurrency.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The bane of e-commerce is the large percentage of purchased items that are returned. She reports, “The share of online purchases that are returned averages 30% or higher, depending on the category, three times the rate in physical stores.”[2] Get Consumers to Keep What They Purchase. of sales, or $428 billion. .”

Waste Reduction 130

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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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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

One retail sector that witnessed a dramatic rise in online purchases during the pandemic was the grocery sector. Analysts from Chicory note, “The grocery shopper’s path to purchase from digital to in-store and other online environments has always been obscure.”[2] The Omnichannel Consumer.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Many of the case studies being presented at today’s conferences were born during the pandemic and the post-pandemic turbulence. For example, Monster Beverages beats Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, while Celanese outperforms Dow Chemical. Leaders of the 90’s Are No Longer Leaders. As I listen, I struggle. Learning Stalled.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The answer depends, of course, on your company’s objectives and, particularly, on your customer service promises. It’s a random approach in which, for example, a consignment of electric blenders might find a home in a storage location between bottles of shampoo on one side, and dog collars on the other.

Inventory Reduction 73

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Arkieva

JUNE 28, 2016

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a continuous business process that enables firms from hospitals to chemicals to respond to emerging situations intelligently. Our focus today is to discuss the relevance of buzz words such as Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Data Science, and Machine Learning, for S&OP.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 8, 2016

We conclude this two part series about manufacturing operations excellence by consultant Chuck Intrieri, by outlaying why manufacturers should focus on a critical component that will help sustain manufacturing operations excellence for years to come. What is Driving Sustainable Manufacturing Operations Excellence? Work centers?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Founded in 2000, Steelwedge was an innovator in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and was an early provider of cloud solutions for supply chain. ” The company’s press release rhetoric is bullish. ” I struggled to understand how a company focused just on S&OP could be viable.

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Supply Chain Movement

JULY 21, 2016

Many companies who have gone down the sales & operations planning (S&oP) route over the past few years are now on the threshold of the next phase: to make demand and supply planning financially relevant and to implement scenario planning. The Netherlands is far from an exception in terms of Excel use.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 21, 2023

SCaaS is a technology-driven approach to managing supply chains, offering comprehensive end-to-end solutions for businesses. Let’s delve into this emerging concept. SCaaS offers a solution by enabling hospitals to engage in strategic procurement, ensuring standardized operations throughout the contract duration.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In this blog, I’ll try to shed more light on it with examples from our work with our customers. While we might go and get the best of the solutions out there to meet today’s challenges and leverage today’s technology, that’s not going to come with a lifetime guarantee that it will meet all our needs in the years ahead. So what to do?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence. Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. The design of the conference includes tours of several modern warehouses and centers of excellence. The Role of the Budget in S&OP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In Figure 1, I show results from a recent S&OP study. S&OP Challenges. Jackie kept a lookout perched on puff’s gigantic tail. As you read the financial analyst’s views of the industry summon your inner dragon: Clearly, the whole space has moved along very rapidly in recent years.

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Logility

DECEMBER 15, 2023

From harvest to hands, the food & beverage (F&B) industry leaves no room for guesswork, especially without supply chain optimization software. In this article, we will cover examples and key factors that push businesses to build that supply chain resilience they need.

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Unleashed

JULY 25, 2021

Over a third of the world’s food produce and products are wasted. Let’s look at how smart food businesses can reduce their waste – and how the right food manufacturing software helps them do it. For example the Raven Food Co-op, a Warsaw-based food cooperative is committed to preventing food waste before it occurs.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks. That''s why we ask our experts a very simple question " How to improve the operational efficiency in global supply chain?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Today hurricane Nate’s north winds are pushing against the bayous of Louisiana. Today’s demand processes are inside-out. In today’s architectures, there is no place to put outside-in data like VMI, Point of Sale (POS) or rating/review data. Today’s demand management processes have many issues.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JULY 5, 2017

From my previous blog post , it’s clear that the road to achieving sales and operations planning (S&OP) excellence is not an easy one. But having the right solution to drive performance, beat the competition and maximize profits is a step in the right direction. Never be late again.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 19, 2016

In 2013 Nokia took full ownership of Nokia Siemens Networks, buying the other half of the venture from Siemens, and 2014 sold its handset business to Microsoft. Nokia is currently preparing for another major change, its purchase of Alcatel-Lucent, which is expected to close in Q1 2016. By Helen Armstrong. It’s a one-stop shop.”.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Despite the apparent complexities involved in supply chain management, achieving excellence really doesn’t have to be too difficult. In this post, we explain what those pillars are, why they matter, and how to align them in a way that supports supply chain management excellence. The Importance of Alignment.

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ThroughPut

MAY 16, 2024

Powered by data analytics and advanced technologies, every stage of the supply chain can be critically analyzed, starting from procurement to distribution to identify and prioritize improvement opportunities. This opens up avenues to save procurement, transportation, inventory, and warehousing costs. What is Supply Chain Optimization?

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 6, 2017

At a board meeting I had just outlined how this lady’s business could save $10 million per year, when she let me have it , with both barrels. When she finished, she said “If the solution was that simple, we would have done it years ago”…. It’s simple, but let me make it even more so. Customers are NOT all one size.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 22, 2016

It starts with the needs of the customer’s customer and flows through the extended supply network. Demand is seen as a fixed set of numbers, and as a result, the team’s focus is on numbers without understanding the drivers of the markets. Traditional Advanced Planning Solutions (APS) approaches are too limited.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 12, 2021

” Although it’s true that some businesses are strictly designed to offer experiences, for most businesses, there is a very fuzzy line differentiating customer experience from customer service. .”[4] She writes, “There’s a lot of hype and promise around Artificial Intelligence tools.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 13, 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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Logility

MARCH 24, 2021

The power of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) comes in helping companies align financial, sales, production, procurement and marketing information into a single plan, grounded in modern-day reality. The outcomes, for example, can be expressed in terms of balanced achievement across the following: .

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Logility

JULY 21, 2022

It’s incredibly complicated to pinpoint when an order will ship and when it will arrive. There’s no way you can orchestrate a value stream until you’ve got it all integrated,” Scrimgeour said. And solutions and systems are part of that change. . Every business ? regardless of size, industry, or market ?

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Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 26, 2016

The real challenge lies not in tools or technology, but rather in human behaviour. That’s why we plan four seasons ahead in our sales & operations planning process, which we still do in Excel. S&OP and omnichannel supply chains are demanding new analytical skills. By Martijn Lofvers and Marieke Lenstra.

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Arkieva

JANUARY 6, 2017

The ABCDs of an Excellent Supply Chain. In this 2-part Supply chain strategy post , the Managing Director at Solventure – Bram Desmet, discusses the key elements of an excellent supply chain. So, as I sit down to write this blog, I wonder what are some of the things that make supply chains excellent? Please subscribe here.

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Logility

AUGUST 12, 2021

For example, shoppers had limited access to fresh produce, meats, and fish due to shortages and disruptions in logistics and delivery services. Excellence in all these areas requires predicting demand, buying supplies and producing products promptly, and responding to market demand with agility. million gallons of milk daily.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

At the event, James Rice, MIT, spoke on innovation, and his reflections on Clayton Christensen’s 1997 classic business book, the Innovators Dilemma. Christensen’s concept is that businesses will reject innovation based on the fact that the customer cannot currently use the innovation delaying the adoption of great ideas.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To accomplish this, you require the skills of supply chain experts who can manage the complexity and difficulties of today’s global supply chains. Expertise: Sourcing, Supply Chain Analysis, Logistics & Transportation, Logistics Management Consulting, Freight (Maritime, Land, or Air), Logistics Technology Solutions.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

While MRP and S&OP were defined as early as the 1980s, these provided rough cut analysis at the aggregate level, nowhere near the level of detail that is possible today. The key point is that I have spent a lot of my working life focused on the value generated by more advanced planning solutions. She states that.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

Building supply chain resilience isn’t a new goal, but it’s become a primary focus for supply chain leaders in the wake of the pandemic crisis, particularly in the hardest-hit industries, such as food and beverage. For example: Does it have a strong track record for meeting contractual obligations?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Nick Lynch is the Global Excellence Manager at Shell Lubricants, a division of Shell Global. It is just not enough to do a software upgrade or slowly push continuous improvement projects. What can often look like compliance in APO could actually be numbers calculated in Excel and posted into the SAP system.

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