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Understanding Today’s Supply Chain Complexity: There’s No Substitute for Hard Work!

Arkieva

I was lucky to attend the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix last May. Our definition of Sales Inventory and Operations Planning (SiOP) at Solventure contains the following steps: Customer-product segmentation. They create excess inventory which is consuming cash and sometimes scarce capacity. Demand planning.

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Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog

Arkieva

Over the past year, the Arkieva Supply Chain Link Blog provided thought leadership and informative posts on supply chain strategy tips, trends, and news. The ABCDs 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? Happy new year!

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

My enhancements were to add the underlying technology and company information at the bottom which gives some context. . They have piloted the process in Excel and know that they need an enterprise level solution for a global roll-out of S&OP. However, excellence in corporate planning matters. Their words.