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Building a Triple A Supply Chain: Ten Tactics That Work

Supply Chain Shaman

Let’s Start with Definitions: One of the difficulties in supply chain is the lack of common definitions. To help the reader, let’s start with definitions used in our research: Efficiency. Driving Change: While companies desire agility, today’s supply chains are largely reactive. Maturity in S&OP.

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP). Planning data is often debated and participation in S&OP decisions is often ad hoc. The process is not balanced between the “S” and the “OP.”. Organization is balanced between operations (OP) and sales/marketing (S) in decision making.

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Six Must Have Supply Chain Capabilities for Success in the Food and Beverage Industry

Logility

To succeed in today’s hyper-competitive market, F&B companies must build a strong foundation of flexible supply chain processes, run by knowledgeable and experienced people and enabled by integrated and agile systems. Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP).

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Happy Labor Day! Insights on Building Supply Chain Talent

Supply Chain Shaman

Labor day also signals the end of summer, and for many supply chain leaders the beginning of 2017 strategy discussions and intense S&OP debates to finalize Q3 and Q4 planning. Before I started doing this research, I believed procurement and manufacturing were aligned. Together, let’s tackle building new capabilities!

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Go Horizontal!

Supply Chain Shaman

Functional silos define today’s supply chain organization. My first job was in manufacturing in the 1980’s. Inside-out processes assume that the order represents demand, and that the supply chain’s role ends with a perfect shipment. The silos compete. They lack alignment. This is not an easy transition.

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Fueling Success: Career in Supply Chain Guide

SCMDOJO

It’s a fast-paced, evolving industry that has a lot of challenges, but also plenty of rewards, including a potentially lucrative income. We have Courses like S&OP deployment, Supply Chain Digitalization , , and Negotiation in Procurement. Here’s an easy way to learn how to apply it to Supply Chain.

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Driving Organizational Alignment

Supply Chain Shaman

The practices are still emerging and have morphed dramatically over the course of the supply chain leader’s career. For perspective, let’s look back at history. In discrete industries, the early supply chain organizations reported to procurement. Looking Back at History. The goal was efficiency.