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Understand the Pitfalls of IBP Before Embarking on a Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

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. He presented a vision of moving from the kind of antiquated sales and operations planning (S&OP) done at many companies, to an advanced form of integrated planning.

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Supply Chain Normalcy? Think Again.

Supply Chain Shaman

The global supply chain is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, availability of reasonably priced logistics, and low variability. As consumer spending fell, the days of escalating ocean freight and extreme shipping variability eased this year. S&OP is too slow and cannot achieve the needed alignment.

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Contingency Planning Amid a Potential Rail Strike

QAD

The scenario of a rail strike sheds light on the unsteadiness that has come to define today’s global supply chain, as QAD’s Stephen Dombroski wrote recently in an article in Food Logistics. Some logistics and shipping businesses have already prepared contingency plans in the event of a rail strike. Inventory management.

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What is Supply Chain Planning Software and How Can it be Used Effectively? Part 1

DELMIA Quintiq

For example, several potential topics can be selected from this definition such as: Supply chain design Supply chain planning Supply chain execution Supply chain monitoring and control Supply chain logistics Supply chain performance and net value. Sales and Operations Panning (S&OP ) is a process and often a planning solution.

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Supply Chain Movement 21 – S&OP + IT

Supply Chain Movement

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. 29 | Checklist Freight Spend Management. 29 | Checklist Freight Spend Management.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 13-17, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Now, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: E2open and Steelwedge Join Forces to Deliver Collaborative Sales & Operations Planning Across Multi-Enterprise Business Networks. DB Schenker Takes $25 Million Stake in Online Freight Booking Platform uShip (WSJ – sub.

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Supply Chain & Logistics News Roundup, October 2022

Logistics Bureau

It’s been three months already since we published our first regular roundup of supply chain and logistics news—doesn’t time fly? Renault’s plans for network redesign and S&OP improvement. Slackening demand for ocean freight and (at long last) falling rates for shippers. So what’s it all about, then?