Inventory Just-in-Time Metrics S&OP 
Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 13, 2024
In my recent Mea Culpa post, I mentioned my prior work on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), and the importance of leadership. Leadership and S&OP? How aligned do you believe your organization is to drive these metrics? My observation was that Mondelez’s processes were worse than Kraft’s.
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 16, 2023
The journey for S&OP is a road with many ruts and potholes. In my twenty years of following the progression of S&OP as an analyst, I am amazed at the number of “experts” with so little expertise. For most companies, building a great S&OP process is a missed opportunity. Drives Value.
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Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
I wrote my first report on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) while sitting on the floor in the Atlanta airport in 2005 when I was an AMR Research analyst. The model in Figure 1 became the foundational model for the Gartner S&OP model. At the time, I was fascinated how the most mature teams bucked the system.
Silvon Software
MARCH 3, 2023
Having a strong Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) strategy ensures that your forecasts, raw materials availability and production capacity all match up and that the factory floor can meet its defined deadlines. But simply putting an S&OP strategy in place isn’t enough. logistics firms). Delivery date.
Kinaxis
JUNE 2, 2017
by Alexa Cheater As Gartner Research Director Matthew Spooner noted in his recent presentation at the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference, advanced sales and operations planning (S&OP) is like a hotel. In fact, Spooner says S&OP isn’t a supply chain process at all. Inventory down 7%. Service up 8%.
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 9, 2024
The companies with the strongest year-over-year performance (placing in the winner’s circle for six more times in ten years) are Apple, L’Oreal, Nike, Paccar, TJX, and TSMC. An average margin of 21% with inventory turns of 1.58 Supply Chains to Admire Winners 2023 Examine Your Own Paradigm.
Supply Chain Shaman
MARCH 21, 2024
At the time, many business leaders did not know how to type and had no idea how to use a computer. Taxonomy of Outside-in Planning Based on the Art of the Possible To accomplish this goal, we need to discard the current crawl, walk, and run models and just jump. During the 1980s, I was on a management team for a large manufacturer.
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