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How to Attain “Stage 4” Supply Chain Planning Maturity

ToolsGroup

For example, MEIO enables inventory policy to accurately reflect all the sources of demand and supply variability across the enterprise chain. Build more resilient supply chain plans (e.g.,

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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

One of my favorite supply chain leadership stories is Clorox. I love the team’s work on supply chain segmentation and complexity management. They are the only company I know of that trained marketing and sales teams on supply chain constraints and segmentations as it ties to product lifecycle management.

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First Class Ready!

Supply Chain Insights

In this course we explain this journey and help supply chain teams to speak the language of the balance sheet with an understanding of how their actions drive business results. Supply chains are not equipped to sense, think, and respond intelligently through digitized relationships which provide new sources of data and insight.

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

ToolsGroup

To achieve Gartner’s Stage 4 maturity requires aligning the S&OP plan to reach revenue projections profitably “based on a more accurate understanding of distinct supply chain segments and corresponding cost to serve.” Finance and supply chain spoke the same language—the language of success.

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

Supply Chain Insights

Want to know what your customers value and how your organization’s performance delivers? We will test to understand how you stack-up to your competitors and how to make customer service actionable. How to keep up? The traditional supply chain is supply centric. How to Mobilize? Training.

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Building Your Supply Chain Strategy: Defining Customer-Centric Supply Chain Design for Manufacturing Companies

BlueYonder

How to adopt customer-centric practices from retailers. In Part I of my Supply Chain Strategy series, I explained why the five tenets of High-Performing Supply Chains remain a great starting point to build your supply chain strategy.

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Becoming demand-driven on command

Supply Chain Movement

I would recommend that you stabilize your efforts on demand planning and learn how to use demand data. Use multiple sources of demand data in the forecast, and build a demand signal repository to harmonize and synchronize demand data from multiple sources. Translate independent demand into a product segmentation strategy.