Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2023

Each executive has a different perspective on the definition of supply chain excellence, but they are never discussed and aligned. Let’s focus first on John. His organization purchased an advanced planning technology from well-known best of breed provider, and the implementation should have been successful, but it was not.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. The roots of IBP are in sales & operations planning (S&OP). S&OP is usually a month-long cross functional process that involves five steps.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 6, 2021

Selecting and implementing a new supply chain solution is a risky career move for any supply chain manager. The wrong solution can cost the company millions and cost the manager their job. You may be smirking right now wondering about the validity of a supply chain software company singing the praises of a POC.

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Logility

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes have evolved over the last 30 years to address this age-old problem, yet recently SCM World declared “S&OP is still the top inquiry within the SCM World community.”* The struggle to balance customer demand with available supply is as old as trade itself.

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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. His response?

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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

Waste Reduction Cost Reduction Strategies Reverse Logistics Eliminating Excel in Purchasing 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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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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Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 26, 2016

The supply chain software industry is in a considerable state of flux. furthermore, because the continuing growth in outsourcing is making global businesses ever-more susceptible to disruptions, supply chain risk management software is also on the rise. Forecasting is about managing risks. Winner and loser of the last quarter.

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QAD

DECEMBER 1, 2022

We’ve developed a 28-question Digital Commerce Checklist to help enterprises understand if their B2B solutions are responsive to today’s online buyers. The pandemic raised the demand for digital commerce solutions, whether or not enterprises were prepared. The Value of B2B e-Commerce.

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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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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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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.

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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. This process ensures that Amazon’s warehouse management system records the location of every item in the facility. In other words, it will be different for every enterprise or organisation.

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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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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. Leaders of the 90’s Are No Longer Leaders. Today’s risk management solutions focus largely on supply sensing and early alerting. As I listen, I struggle. Learning Stalled.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 19, 2024

Adding complexity to this conundrum is the fact that success often relies on factors outside of the agricultural community’s control, like weather, and, when growers do a great job (i.e., It takes real dedication to excel in the agriculture field (no pun intended). It’s not true.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

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. They can adjust quantities and generate supplier replenishment orders in PDF or Excel as needed. and Europe.

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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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Logility

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

This is the fifth post in a series where we investigate some of the myths and mistruths around Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP). Myth: “No Need for S&OP; We have Lean Manufacturing.” Raw and WIP inventory takes time to procure, build and transport. This is a fact you cannot get around.

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DynaSys

MAY 12, 2021

In 2019, NEOVIA was purchased by the ADM Group. This new purchase led to a shift in company culture. Their entire supply chain- from purchasing through to distribution via the production plants – must be ready to meet these needs. Neovia’s Need for an Agile, Cloud-Based Supply Chain Solution .

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2013

They knew little about the software market. In the beginning, the inventory management solutions of LogicTools , Optiant and SmartOps pushed to take operations research to a new level through supply chain optimization. SmartOps was purchased by SAP. SAP released an S&OP solution using HANA in 2011.

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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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Supply Chain Movement

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

16 | Profile Ivanka Janssen, Director Global Sales Operational Excellence, Diageo. The Route to Consumer programme brings together the product flow from plant to retailer to consumer activities at point of purchase, all to service the consumer experience Diageo is trying to create. 28 | Facts & Figures: Supply Chain Software.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

The attendees were sitting on the edge of their seats to hear about the next release of Llamasoft software. The market for network design tools was growing at a moderate rate, and most of the market had invested in technologies from either i2 Technologies (then termed i2 Strategist) or Logictools. The theatre was packed. Reflections.

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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. Excellence in all these areas requires predicting demand, buying supplies, producing products promptly, and swiftly responding to market demand.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

As shown in Figure 1, users are more satisfied, the implementations are shorter and there is greater Return on Investment of solutions from Best-of-Breed solution providers—especially if the best-of-breed solution providers used are industry-specific. I struggle to find both in today’s market. Five Lessons to Learn.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” Let’s take a closer look to see what progress looks like. The Market Leaders in Inventory Management Technology Have the Best Solutions.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Micro Supply Chain Management (Micro-SCM) could then be construed as the non-global activities concerned with planning and controlling the rates of purchasing, production, distribution and related capacity resources to achieve targeted customer service levels within a company. Concluding Thoughts.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 5, 2021

What’s Normal Anyways? Companies have leveraged digital tools, and evolving skills, to collect vast data about product or raw materials sourcing, transportation, logistics, and manufacturing. They use advanced ERP software and S&OP strategy to match supply with demand, and turn over inventory faster and faster.

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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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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. ROI of an optimal S&OP process.

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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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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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