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What is Supply Chain Visibility and Why Isn’t It Enough?

Logistics Viewpoints

Let’s say visibility allows you to locate some bolts on a truck in Kansas and learn they will be late because of a raw materials shortage delaying your supplier, because one of their suppliers went bankrupt. In the last year, many companies saw their S&OP cycles shrink from monthly to weekly or even daily cadences.

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Your Trade War Survival Secret: Sales and Operations Planning – Part 1

DynaSys

This is when Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) displays its tremendous value. First, ST must make decisions regarding the size and location of inventories. More tactically, how to adjust inventory stocks across distribution centers? Sales and Operations Planning No Longer Optional. Distribution Planning.

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Pull Your Own Upset

Tompkins Blog

In 2011 Virginia Commonwealth shocked Kansas. In 2010 Butler overthrew Kansas State and Syracuse. We see this in S&OP, mergers and acquisitions, technology, e-commerce, and many other areas that have a huge impact on supply chain. Lesson learned: intimidation works. Lesson learned: do something surprising.

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Trends 2019: Food

Enterra Insights

Researchers from Oklahoma State University’s Robert M. ” They also note a product called “heme” is being developed “to bring a meaty quality to … wheat and potato-protein burger[s].” 8] Taylor, op. Food trends. Regional flavors. Bon appetite! Footnotes. [1] 4] Loren G.

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