Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2015

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is in a renaissance. With growth slowing and complexity rising, S&OP is more important than ever. It is not sexy, and it requires hard work; but the greatest value of S&OP is profitable growth. It is just too easy. The reason? It is comical.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Interest in sales and operations planning (S&OP) always runs high in times of economic uncertainty, so I’ve been fielding a lot of questions the last couple years from clients on how to do S&OP. The proliferation of alternative terms for S&OP has added to the confusion. What is S&OP?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

For organizations layered in functional metrics and driving a cost agenda, this is a tough nut to crack. S&OP is too slow and cannot achieve the needed alignment. Process latency, the time for an organization to make a decision using a traditional S&OP process, is two-to-six weeks. Unrest in Sudan.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Second, they adapt over time as market structures and strategies evolve. We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 11, 2017

But by monetizing Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), supply chain planners can speak the language of finance while developing S&OP into a more mature process. This isn’t just aligning financial planning with S&OP. Both numbers are “correct.” But with finance, it’s “show me the money”.

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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. Supply Chains to Admire Winners 2023 Examine Your Own Paradigm. How Do You Define Excellence? Humility exudes from my fingers as I type this post.

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Supply Chain Trend

JULY 22, 2018

PREVIEW In their three-part Foresight series entitled “Misconceptions, Missteps, and Bad Practices in S&OP,” ( Foresight issues 46, 47, 48) Chris Gray and John Dougherty expose a baker’s dozen of blunders blocking the road to an effective S&OP process. . S&OP Is the New Name for ERP.

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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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ThroughPut

MAY 22, 2024

Naturally, one of the reasons that businesses hesitate to adopt AI is the time it takes to realize ROI. With time running short, businesses need to build a clear business case for AI with a concrete plan of action that rapidly – and incrementally – achieves ROI.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Each player begins with eight pawns on the second row/rank and can promote a pawn to become any other piece (typically a queen) if it reaches the opponent’s end of the board. My client attempted to have a supply chain discussion to improve flow, and his executive group just did not get it. Dan’s peer was a man named Fred.

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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 Trend

NOVEMBER 14, 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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Logility

MARCH 4, 2021

In addition, Lora and Mac emphasize the importance of the following: Driving market value through S&OP. How balanced are you across the S and the OP ? And don’t forget the ampersand — remember to focus on markets, not just products. Supply chain gurus Mac and Lora share insights? variability. Make a list.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, having an efficient supply chain department is more important than ever. By optimizing the supply chain, businesses can minimize costs, reduce lead times, and improve customer service. But how exactly can businesses achieve this level of efficiency?

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Combining rolling forecasts and S&OP to streamline business processes. Tighter integration can also lessen the pain of the budgeting process since a forward rolling plan means managers will already have consensus approval for some of the next year’s requirements through confirmation of the S&OP process.

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Arkieva

JUNE 28, 2016

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a continuous business process that enables firms from hospitals to chemicals to respond to emerging situations intelligently. Our focus today is to discuss the relevance of buzz words such as Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Data Science, and Machine Learning, for S&OP.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Building a puzzle takes time, patience and regardless of its size, takes a great deal of perseverance. SIOP stands for “Sales, Inventory, Operations Plan”, not to be confused with “S&OP”. Piecing Together the SIOP Process. by Madeline Smith , Supply Chain Management Consultant at Clarkston Consulting.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

The two most significant factors were a rise in time between the booking to gate in at the port, up 43%, and the ocean transit time, up 36%. Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. ” Let’s set the stage. A Decline in Innovation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

Supply Planning Implementations are Just Harder The previous SCP implementation had not gone well. Teams will then revert back to their former tools, often times using Excel. Hypercare in most IT projects is the period of time immediately following a system Go Live where an elevated level of support is available.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

With this information, are you any closer to knowing what to do about it, or have you just enriched your ability to admire your problem and see it close up? In a survey of 150 global manufacturing executives, 47% committed to improving supply chain visibility and tracking. Agility to act on transparency.

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DynaSys

MAY 12, 2020

I have just completed a new demand planning project. During Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) they collaborate with sales, marketing, and their customers at a business level that has meaning to them and provide a consensus forecast built from the bottom up to review with management. Project success!!

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QAD

MARCH 9, 2023

Continual Supply Chain Disruption is Here to Stay Who could have imagined that the level of supply chain disruption experienced during the pandemic was just the beginning? The COVID-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in supply chains around the world and the dust has never settled. How Have Global Supply Chains Changed Since the Pandemic?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The two most significant factors were a rise in time between the booking to gate in at the port, up 43%, and the ocean transit time, up 36%. Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. The US GDP in 2021 grew at an unexpected rate of 5.7% Less Collaborative.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

I was not sure what the discussion was going to be, but I was hoping to be wide-awake by the time that I got to the corner of 18 th Street to meet my client. I was not sure what the discussion was going to be, but I was hoping to be wide-awake by the time that I got to the corner of 18 th Street to meet my client. client meeting.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2013

In this time, I have worked with over 500 companies. I am afraid for many it has been just talk. To understand supply chain excellence, Abby and I have been studying pattern recognition for industry peer groups at the intersection of the metrics in the Supply Chain Effective Frontier of growth, profitability, cycles and complexity.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

According to Niels van Hove ( @sctrends ), the term Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) was coined back in 1987. As van Hove notes, “The times since Sales & Operations planning (S&OP) was born in 1987 as a solution for operational issues are long gone.”[1] People, Processes, and Technology.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2023

If you’re a supply chain management professional, you’re probably aware of how important it is to continuously improve your skills and knowledge in this field. With the ever-evolving business landscape, staying current on the latest industry trends and best practices is crucial for your success. Fresh, easy to digest format. .

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2015

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is important to building value chain agility and improving enterprise performance. The building of an effective S&OP process takes many years–often three to seven. The most effective S&OP process reports to a profit-center manager (P&L).

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Most people don’t just want to be fixing problems. Having just joined this Retail company I was highly interested in the enormous automation investment they had just made in their Distribution Centre. In this vein we launched our “The Supply Chain Detective Series” and here we present our first 10 cases!

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

I remember the first time that I met the founders, Don and Toby. ” And from time to time, when we were behind deadline, and teasing each other about the looming weekly post, we would throw our llamas from cubicle to cubicle. It could no longer be just about inventory levels. The conference was low-key. Reflections.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Today, I launched the The Supply Chain Shaman’s Journal. In January, 2014 the Shaman’s blog will be four-years old. How time flies… One of the problems with a blog is that as it becomes bigger, it becomes more and more difficult for the reader to access old posts. Each Journal is centered around a theme.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In supply chain management, it is widely accepted that holding enough finished goods inventory to fulfill every order is just too costly. As the supply chain team contemplated this growth, they realized that they had to envision a future, not that many years out, where the company could be generating up to three times their current sales.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 29, 2016

New Year’s Eve is a time for parties. They were largely driven by my ignorance (at the time) and situational learning. As a result, each time someone uses the word, you should ask for a definition. In the process, facts become gray and what’s ‘true’ is uncertain. However, not for long.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 17, 2014

by Melissa Clow As we have mentioned a couple times, Kinexions , the Kinaxis Training & User Conference is taking place later this month. And as the saying goes, ‘You can’t manage what you can’t measure’ and questions remain regarding what metrics to use to measure the success of new planning solutions within EMEA Automotive.

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DynaSys

JANUARY 20, 2021

Develop a plan for rehiring, re-engaging or (if necessary) increasing staff, based on demand and your S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) decisions. Beyond pandemics, this applies to recessions, wars, and natural disasters as well as industry-specific downturns and shifts – and to good times too.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 15, 2016

This is due to increased realization that the current batch oriented planning processes are limiting their ability to run scenarios in real time and collaborate based on them. PSI (Production, Sales, and Inventory) analysis has been the norm in the region for quite some time. The evening included networking with the attendees.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Over the course of the last two years, we at Supply Chain Insight s have worked on a methodology to gauge supply chain improvement. We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During We named it the Supply Chain Index. In this blog, we share an interview with Dave Biegger, SVP of Campbell Soup.

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