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Understand the Pitfalls of IBP Before Embarking on a Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

The roots of IBP are in sales & operations planning (S&OP). S&OP is usually a month-long cross functional process that involves five steps. The company has 11 production facilities across North America and China. It’s just a set of numbers. It’s the narrative.

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Frequently Asked Questions about S&OE

AIMMS

This is a guest entry by Sander van Lokven, General Manager at Districon Solutions North America, an AIMMS implementation partner. What is S&OE and what does it entail to develop a companion app with optimization capabilities? S&OE is all about how reality compares to the S&OP plan.

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Jaro Caban: “Establishing S&OP is a challenging journey”

Supply Chain Movement

In this edition: Jaro Caban, Global S&OP, Cargill Animal Nutrition. Cargill Animal Nutrition (CAN) is clustered around five major regions: North America; Latin America; EMEAR, including Russia; South Asia and East Asia. Nine questions about the topics on the supply chain agenda of a supply chain professional.

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Cardinal Health’s Perfect Implementation

Logistics Viewpoints

Cardinal Health’s senior vice president of global logistics, said of their implementation of the Kinaxis’ supply chain planning (SCP) solution, “I was scared! Global logistics leaders wanted to improve service levels, lower costs, and fortify Cardinal Health’s supply chain planning process. I put my name on the line.”

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Driving the Future of Automotive — Connected, Autonomous, Electric, Configure to Order

BlueYonder

This model has prevailed in the industry due to the long manufacturing lead time and the intense competition and remains the dominant one in North America where customers want instant gratification and expect to buy the car off the lot. To add to this complexity, today’s consumers are demanding and craving product customization.

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On the road! 4 September supply chain conferences we love

Kinaxis

Here’s the supply chain conferences we love and will be attending. As part of the panel, four ex-AMR analysts –Roddy Martin, Mickey North Rizza, Lora Cecere and CJ Wehlage– will share insights on the results and the trends. Automotive Logistics Global Conference. Hope to see you in the coming weeks! September 10-11.

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Canada’s Federated Co-operatives Ltd. (FCL) goes live with Ivalua’s Source-to-Contract (S2C) solution with seamless integration to TealBook’s AI-powered supplier data foundation

ivalua

Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL), based in Saskatoon, is focused on providing more than 160 local Co-ops across Western Canada with strategy and leadership, wholesaling, manufacturing, logistics, operational support, business-enabling services and marketing support. learn more, please visit www.optisconsulting.com. About TealBook.