Inventory Manufacturing Procurement S&OP Workshop 
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.
Supply Chain Trend
OCTOBER 31, 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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Kinaxis
DECEMBER 12, 2014
by John Westerveld Over the years, working for and with numerous manufacturing companies, I’ve seen many supply chain practices that cost companies money. Reason #6 Not effectively managing inventory. A bad decision can result in missed orders, significant inventory, or scrapped materials.
ToolsGroup
JANUARY 21, 2020
ToolsGroup supply chain planning software allows Allopneus.com to improve inventory quality while reducing storage space at its national distribution center by almost 20%. As a result, we need to have more than 20,000 SKUs in stock,” explains Pierre-Jean Coltat, procurement and planning manager at Allopneus. NEWS RELEASE.
Logistics Bureau
MAY 9, 2016
Current assets include inventory and accounts receivable, i.e. payments you are waiting to receive, notably from your customers. As a result, if you can get paid by your customers before you have to pay your suppliers and reduce inventory to boot , your current assets can be reduced to below your current liabilities.
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