Unleashed

JULY 10, 2023

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is the process of aligning demand planning with supply planning and financial planning to create an integrated business strategy. Other benefits of Sales and Operations Planning include: Happier customers: A high-functioning S&OP team supports better decision-making at the executive level.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The issue is cross-industry. Today’s headline news includes AllBirds, Boeing, Canada Goose, Chemours, EMC, Hanes Brands, Fisker, Ford, Krispy Kreme, LKQ, Ryder, Tesla, Timken, Tyson Foods, Weight Watchers International, and WestRock. Let’s not quibble on the percentages. For context, let’s call him Dave.

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Logility

AUGUST 31, 2023

The consumer goods industry may have experienced tremendous growth, but figuring out what consumers want is an ever-evolving puzzle. This experience is not only frustrating industry executives – it’s compelling them to reassess their sales and operations planning (S&OP) process.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

While sometimes, I feel like the old lady in the room (many of my contacts are no longer active in the industry), the reception of the content by new supply chain leaders is positive, so I go on even though gray hair penetrates my hairline. ” Let’s start with a definition. Procurement/Buyers Workbench.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Jeff Baker, Vice President of Shared Services at Myers Industries. Myers Industries Implements John Galt Solutions. Myers Industries (NYSE: MYE) is headquartered in Akron, Ohio in the United States. In September of 2020, the company hired Jeff Baker to be their Vice President of Procurement and Integrated Supply Chain.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 21, 2023

Let’s delve into this emerging concept. While implementing SCaaS poses challenges, it has demonstrated its effectiveness across industries, fostering company growth, cost reduction, and leveraging cutting-edge technology. allowing them to shift their focus towards core activities like market share and product management.

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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. Then, F&B businesses can transform diverse information from sales, production, finance, marketing, transportation, and procurement into one comprehensive business plan.

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Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 30, 2014

It’s quite a complex industry when it comes to implementing change,” states Declercq. The company has 50 manufacturing sites around the world, and the current sales & operations planning (S&OP) project encompasses 13 production facilities and nine distribution centres.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2023

With the ever-evolving business landscape, staying current on the latest industry trends and best practices is crucial for your success. It covers the basics of procurement, including procurement strategies, contract management, and supplier selection. Ratings of each course will also be included. Fresh, easy to digest format.

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Logility

APRIL 13, 2021

Is it identical to sales and operations Planning (S&OP), an extension of it, or something altogether separate? Call it what you want, IBP is probably best thought of as mature S&OP. Lora Cecere reminds us that IBP is actually the third step of maturity in an S&OP implementation.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 28, 2015

The demand for software solutions for sales & operations planning (S&OP) in particular is attracting new players, and cloud-based supply chain software solutions appear to be making a breakthrough. 24 | Management: Forecasting noise disturbs S&OP process. 33 | Overview S&OP software in Europe.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 13, 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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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, having an efficient supply chain department is more important than ever. While Its primary purpose is to manage the entire process, from procurement to delivery, efficiently and cost-effectively, it also coordinates with production to automate processes and planning, etc.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Definition: “Someone’s efforts, resolve, or viability are tested; things are meaningfully challenging. The supply chain team’s past thirty-two months of disruption were a long, winding road full of surprises. ” Following the announcement, Ford’s stock closed at the lowest valuation in eleven years.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

I find that in the industry, sometimes the basics get lost. Let’s start with the basics. In traditional advanced planning applications (APS) for a manufacturing company, the forecasting model’s role is to generate a time-series forecast in the tactical horizon (outside of lead time). (An Bear with me. Be careful.

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Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 26, 2016

The supply chain software industry is in a considerable state of flux. In the last three years we’ve developed our strategy, centralised procurement, purchasing and manufacturing aligned our portfolios across all categories globally and developed our exclusive brands portfolio. 35 | Facts & Figures: S&OP and support IT.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2023

Jordan’s work history included stints at Adidas and Rebok, so she understands not just supply chain management, but how sophisticated multinationals have applied these concepts in the sporting goods industry. Without a dependable forecast on what would be bought, contract manufacturers could not do effective capacity planning or procurement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

The reinvention of planning is needed, but it is hard to unwind the industry. I have been an industry analyst for two decades. The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. ” Let’s set the stage. Current technologies and processes focus on volume trade-offs.

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Logility

MARCH 24, 2021

The power of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) comes in helping companies align financial, sales, production, procurement and marketing information into a single plan, grounded in modern-day reality. Down here on the ground where real people are trying to run real businesses, there’s little time for semantic subtleties.

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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Meeting these objectives, on top of addressing existing industry challenges, requires steel manufacturing companies to become more efficient and flexible in their operations—and this means optimizing their master production schedules. The Value of Master Production Scheduling.

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Logility

JULY 30, 2020

During my Lean/6-Sigma Black Belt studies, while working as a supply-chain management practitioner in the high technology and industrial manufacturing industries, I became familiar with “The House of Quality”, the first matrix in the four-phase Quality Function Deployment (QFD) process.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting. Coupa Introduces a Supply Chain Collaboration Network Solution Coupa has claimed that their platform unifies processes across procurement, finance, and supply chain functions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2022

Inflation is today’s reality. …or long laborious discussions of the differences between Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP). Today’s processes are inside-out not outside-in. Let’s examine the market reality by looking at a peer group.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The reinvention of planning is needed, but it is hard to unwind the industry. I have been an industry analyst for two decades. The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. Data Sharing and Procurement. Walk away from the automation of procurement for RFPs.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The highly revered “Supply Chain Secrets” is hosted by Rob O’Byrne, who has been in the Supply Chain and Logistics industry since he was 15. This supply chain YouTube channel covers Supply Chain and Logistics topics with a passion running over 40+ years of industry experience. . Procurement Jobs in Future.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

A Participant’s View of the River of Demand In a Large Consumer Organization. While Figure 1 is the planner’s view, Figure 2 shows the executive’s mental model. The industry is stuck in traditional paradigms resulting in many gaps: Lost Opportunity. Procurement Operates On An Island. The reason?

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o9 Solutions

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

There is not a single day without the metals industry making the headlines: from targeted cyberattacks to price volatility to the semiconductor crisis impacting the automotive industry and consequently swinging supply and demand for metal manufacturers. The metal industry has unique planning needs that are complex to handle.

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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. The number one question that I am asked today by manufacturers across all industries is “How can I improve customer service?” Here are nine considerations: #1 S&OP Budget Constraints. The Role of the Budget in S&OP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over the last five years, I have helped two companies, Sonoco Products and Owens Illinois (OI) with their selection of technologies to improve Sales and Operations (S&OP) planning. Both companies provide packaging materials to the food manufacturing industry. S&OP Matters. Here I contrast their results.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 25, 2024

The supply chain industry is vital to the global economy with its complex network of activities, people, organizations, information, and resources. Here are six essential tips for students to enter and thrive in the supply chain industry. It isn’t just about stocking up on cool facts but bringing fresh, impactful ideas.

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Logility

AUGUST 12, 2021

With advanced supply chain planning and optimization solutions, your company can achieve this edge with a fact-based sales and operations planning (S&OP) foundation and keen visibility across your global supply chain network. Managing Supply Chain Data.

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Logility

MARCH 29, 2018

The food & beverage industry faces a lengthy list of unique challenges from long raw material lead-times and volatile commodity pricing to safety and quality requirements combined with high demand uncertainty, frequent new product introductions, perishability and complex manufacturing constraints. Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP).

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Here’s the rub. Mindy Davis , SAP’s Vice President of Global Marketing for the Digital Supply Chain, explains, “Supply chains need to be risk-resilient and efficient. 2] Faisal Rashid, “ Resilience is a choice — it’s not a trait of supply chains ,” Supply Chain Digital, 20 May 2023. [3]

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ThroughPut

APRIL 21, 2022

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a critical business process instrumental to realizing continued growth in any industry. To ensure alignment between business goals and operational plans as well as optimal business performance, it’s essential to get S&OP right. Here are our top nine.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Highlights from the High-Tech Industry Summit Blue Yonder’s High-Tech Industry Summit, cosponsored by Microsoft and Ernst & Young LLP , brought together over 50 supply chain practitioners from 18 diverse high-tech companies to Microsoft’s Technology Center in Mountain View, California, in October.

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Logility

JULY 14, 2022

It is encouraging to see our collective work recognized as best-in-class among top projects in the industry,” said Allan Dow, president, Logility. For many of these collaborations, it’s about achieving full visibility, complete forecasting, end-to-end leverage and the ultimate in sustainability.”. and L.I.N.K.

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DynaSys

MARCH 18, 2022

Sales, inventory and operations planning (SIOP) means succinctly integrating sales, marketing, supply chain, operations, product management, procurement, pricing, and financial data with the executive team’s effective decision-making capabilities. Depending on the industry, supply chain planning goes by many different names.

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