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How to Attain “Stage 4” Supply Chain Planning Maturity

ToolsGroup

Stage 3 is where firms coordinate their supply chain processes—shifting concentration from functional capabilities to end-to-end processing for more planning visibility across the wider chain. Build more resilient supply chain plans (e.g., Click below for a short white paper on optimizing E2E supply chains:

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Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SiOP) – Part One

Arkieva

I pride myself on being an expert in designing and implementing Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning. Companies that have a good SiOP process can’t imagine how to live without it. There is no one-size-fits-all in your supply chain. For A-products we may define higher service levels and carry more inventory.

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My Biggest Mistake: Inventory Levels are the Thermometer for the Management of the Company

Arkieva

As a Phd in inventory optimization, I’ve started my supply chain career in adjusting inventory parameters with surgical precision. I was, and I still am passionate about applying statistics and advanced analytics to the supply chain domain. I’m still training supply chain experts on how to do this.

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Avoid “Lost in Translation”. Monetize S&OP to Include Finance.

ToolsGroup

Gartner recommends multiplying the planned unit volume: by price to generate monetized revenue plans, by cost to generate monetized inventory plans, by margin to generate monetized profit plans. 4-9% decrease in the value of obsolete inventory as a percentage of total stocked goods (product costs). She says ERP is “reactive”.

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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain excellence is harder to define than to say. To help, we analyze business results each year to understand which companies outperform on the balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) over the past ten years. We are living in a period of unprecedented change.

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Think Differently. Drive New Outcomes. Let Us Help You Build A Guiding Coalition.

Supply Chain Insights

Understand inventory write-offs, impact of forecast processes and technology satisfaction in the planning benchmarking. Customer-Centric Supply Chain Research. Want to know what your customers value and how your organization’s performance delivers? How to keep up? The traditional supply chain is supply centric.

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Agility and flexibility in the age of digital supply chains – Insights from the 2017 Supply Chain & Logistics EMEA summit & expo

Kinaxis

Practices such as supply chain segmentation, inventory target setting, and smoothing of production and distribution schedules and bringing consistency and repeatability into them, are all ways to build shock absorbers into the supply chain systems.