Inventory Manufacturing S&OP Workshop 
DELMIA Quintiq
AUGUST 31, 2022
Why do manufacturers need an effective supply chain plan? Without an effective supply chain plan, manufactures cannot make accurate and timely decisions on what to buy, what to make, what to move, what to stock, when to launch and when to discontinue. Sales and Operations Panning (S&OP ) is a process and often a planning solution.
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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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.
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.
BlueYonder
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
As 2016 draws to a close, it’s clear that the next 12 months are set to be extremely disruptive for the manufacturing industry. Considering that the industry has largely concentrated on becoming cost-effective rather than lean, this means manufacturers must be prepared for change. The supply chain of the future.
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%. Moreover, the supply cycles of manufacturers who are very far away can be quite long. Inventory management is the key. Inventory management is the key.
BlueYonder
JANUARY 6, 2016
Interestingly, both teams wound up with high excess inventory in the chain. Yet it appears that in most of the world wholesalers and manufacturers still create their own forecast and pay scant attention to any forecasts they get from retailers. Within the teams some tried to ply their supply chain expertise to attain these goals.
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