Kinaxis

AUGUST 24, 2015

by Lori Smith Can the S&OP process be done without technology? So what technologies are today’s supply chain teams using to support the critical S&OP process? It never ceases to surprise me when I hear how many enterprises entrust a mission-critical task to the desktop spreadsheet software Excel®.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 18, 2015

Introduction For many companies the implementation of a formal Sales and Operation Planning (“S&OP”) process has not delivered the expected improvement in demand and supply integration. Overly focused on efficiency and cost savings, i.e. on the “O,” the “S” in S&OP now seems to have become an afterthought.

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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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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

One of the ways to ensure your supply chain is ready for the next crisis is to test its resiliency by leveraging digital S&OP tools. . With the right simulation tool in place, your S&OP team has increased visibility to make “on-the-fly” calculations.

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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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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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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2023

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. BTW, John’s situation is more common that most people acknowledge.) So, how does John maneuver through the ring of fire?

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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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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 7, 2023

In this article, we’ll look at some of those challenges and explore potential solutions to help you and your IM team meet the burgeoning demand for fast and accurate order fulfilment. Moreover, the ecommerce explosion has brought new and unique challenges that complicate inventory management for enterprises selling online.

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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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Logility

AUGUST 11, 2020

For example, read the recent article in Supply Chain Dive, From Visibility Software to Pallet Picks: How Tillamook Planned Inventory as Demand Soared. In one example, we saw the pandemic accelerate customer demand for plant-based meats due to the short supply of animal-based products. The System Challenge (and Solution).

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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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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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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The S&OP cycle has hit a wall. The S&OP process gains magnitudes of complexity when a new element, like an updated regulation or a market expansion, is added. The S&OP cycle may even slow down as the company grows. There’s misalignment between key functions.

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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. By Marcel te Lindert. From volume to value.

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Logility

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

If you want your supply chain to be as sustainable as possible, you need to know what’s happening in real time. Your supply chain tracking solution should be supported by artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation to constantly update what’s happening in your supply chain.

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Logility

APRIL 21, 2020

In fact, demand forecasts are used throughout the supply chain including supply chain design, purchasing, operations, inventory, and sales and marketing. Over the past decade, sales and operations planning (S&OP) emerged as an essential element of supply chain management. Faster response to risk. Price optimization.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Demand shaping is a supply chain strategy that utilizes tactics such as price and promotion incentives, product substitutions and cost modifications to entice customers to purchase specific items. Utilizing pricing software , retailers can leverage machine learning to forecast how pricing will affect customer demand and revenue targets.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

For example, spending on clothing and cosmetics dropped while spending on home goods and staples rose. Gen Z’s balances increased 51.9% ” Those preferences and tastes must be addressed if the CPG sector hopes to attract Gen Zer’s important business. to $55 billion, representing 5.7% of all balances.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 24, 2013

Recently a delegate told us something surprising: that his company’s IT department chose some planning software without consulting anyone in supply chain. Mainstream software. IT should join S&OP. I later heard a similar story from someone in our last Supply Chain Club meeting. This is very misguided.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 2, 2021

One example is omnichannel retail. ”[1] As a result they note, “Marketers must adopt an omnichannel mindset to be ready for people’s changing behavior, both today and tomorrow, and to deliver a frictionless customer journey across all channels.” Online Customer Experience. ”[4]. ”[6].

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Logility

AUGUST 14, 2020

There are libraries full of algorithms that are relatively easy to implement in software, but the math is only as good as the data it’s applied to. For example, a category manager wants to track products before and after a promotion, by region and manufacturer. Organization. By rep or team. Instead, they buy bottles.

Forecasting 147

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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.

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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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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 17, 2023

Thank you for helping us conserve the earth’s vital resources.” For example, a route that is optimized such that a truck needs less travelled distance to deliver the same number of packages, or a production system that saves energy by more efficient batching of products in furnaces.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. Here are nine considerations: #1 S&OP Budget Constraints. Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is a horizontal process to drive organizational plan alignment. The Role of the Budget in S&OP.

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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. during 2020.

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AIMMS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Most chemical companies think they have a high sales and operation planning (S&OP) maturity, but do they really? We all know S&OP can help. S&OP helps you effectively achieve your company strategy. AIMMS and ORTEC have developed a methodology to assess the maturity of the S&OP process.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

” For example, attorneys Kathleen E. Wegrzyn and Eugenia Wang write, “While blockchain technology can potentially provide huge advantages to supply chains, there are also potential disadvantages that make it clear that any blockchain solution must be well-tailored to the targeted supply chain.”[1]

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ToolsGroup

MAY 28, 2020

In some environments everything has slowed down; in other areas everything’s accelerating, and decisions need to be made in minutes and hours. That’s resulted in new priorities. There was some rationale, but it’s also resulted in some other unexpected changes. In reality, it’s probably going to be a mix.

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Cathy Roberson

APRIL 6, 2022

Despite the number of visibility tools available on the market today, “lack of visibility” continues to be a common complaint in the supply chain market. Are today’s visibility tools missing something? What's missing, if anything, from visibility tools?” But what exactly is visibility?

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DynaSys

APRIL 28, 2021

My next S&OP run is coming, and I must find a solution to deal with sales forecasting after Covid. In that case, Demand-driven MRP is the best example. Sales forecasting contribution in the S&OP process. so many questions we must answer before making a good S&OP decision.

Forecasting 52

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ModusLink Corporation

MARCH 23, 2022

This enables customers to find more quickly what they were looking for and make the purchase, thus resulting in higher conversion rates. These companies use many tools to create and improve websites. Some examples of impactful tools are: Chatbots. Geraadpleegd op 13 januari 2022, van [link]. Neusser, S.

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 13, 2020

He reasoned that to support such planning we need to implement a third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software. Although third wave supply chain-software could cover all these elements, Niels believes that human centricity is critical so that decision augmentation should be the more desirable form for business planning.

Supply Chain Software 147

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Logility

MARCH 13, 2020

With the flood of data available to businesses regarding their supply chain these days, companies are turning to analytics solutions to extract meaning from the huge volumes of data to help improve decision making. The promise of doing it right and becoming a data-driven organization is great.

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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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