Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 24, 2025

Today’s planning market is muddy : the methodology is inadequate to compare entities that are not alike. I liken today’s selection process to making a bowl of minestrone soup. Let’s play out the analogy. For 80% of industries, the supply chain metrics represent more than 40% impact on value. The reason?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2016

I will also pen my 95th report for this week’s Supply Chain Insight’s newsletter. It is one that is often asked: “S&OP How Do I Get Started?” ” S&OP: How Do I Get Started? I asked, “Why is S&OP important to your business?”

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 17, 2022

Unfortunately, the definitions of S&OP and IBP are often confusing as they seem to be both distinct and overlapping processes. Other activities, such as S&OP, still take place but as a second level of the overall process.

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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.

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JUNE 10, 2025

Do Set Clear KPIs and Governance Structures : Establish transparent metrics for sales, coverage, and service levels. Do Invest in Distributor Capability Building : Provide training, digital tools, and performance incentives. A well-equipped distributor is an extension of your brand and a key to market penetration.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2013

Closing the gaps happens when there are aligned metrics, clarity of vision and aligned planning processes. More advanced supply chain leaders model the role of complexity (product and customer), the impact of risk, and opportunity of innovation as well as product shipping and manufacturing locations, and inventory policies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

Manufacturing is designed and planned in isolation. Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning. Integration with manufacturing systems to understand actual run times and Operating Efficiency (OEE). Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP). Manufacturing. Tactical Supply.

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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. It cannot be about singular metrics. S&OP Matters.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2022

To entice you to participate let’s look at the data more closely. In the supply chain team analysis, note the 21% gap between procurement and manufacturing teams, the 35% gap between sales and operations and the 21% gap between finance and operations. Functional Metrics. To respond, follow this link.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 6, 2020

Frank, the line manager for manufacturing, dominated the meetings. As a result, we shelved Ed’s idea. Testing Ed’s idea was beyond my circle of control. Despite goals to improve agility and resiliency, functional metrics for manufacturing efficiency continually throw the supply chain out of balance.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 24, 2016

Puricelli A few weeks ago, I launched a new blog series on sales and operations planning (S&OP ). To make sure everyone is on the same page, I want to review the basics, the foundation, which is… what exactly is S&OP? S&OP is so much more than a process or a meeting.

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Silvon Software

JUNE 1, 2023

KPIs are essential in S&OP as they provide a quantitative framework for gaining visibility, aligning efforts, supporting decision-making, and driving continuous improvement across the business. Ideally, your S&OP KPIs should consist of a mix of strategic, tactical, and operational metrics.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 31, 2015

by Lori Smith In a previous post , I talked about the ineffectiveness of Excel, ERP, and legacy planning for S&OP. A modern pilot embarks with a general flight plan, but then monitors a continuous readout of key metrics, which he uses to make numerous small course corrections to arrive at the proper destination on schedule.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2013

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. The links are listed below: S&OP: A State of the Union. Does S&OP improve agility?

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Gartner S&OP Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Planning Software 286

ToolsGroup

MARCH 18, 2019

It bought its main rivals to become North America’s largest fine paper manufacturer. [1] In the first phase Mohawk overhauled its own internal operations, implementing a centralized Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process to manage its business in a more demand-driven way.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Let’s explore nine in this blog. Today’s supply chain leaders have a fascination with Artificial Intelligence (AI) but are blind to the advantages and capabilities of Web 2.0 Software built on graph technology can model flow, but the transactional paradigms of historic practices hold development team’s hostage.

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DynaSys

MARCH 17, 2021

IBP vs S&OP. Organizational metrics are important. S&OP plans often focus on objectives like on-time in-full (OTIF) , inventory turns, and resource utilization. S&OP vs IBP, they have distinct time horizons that are not in alignment with one another. Financial Planning IBP vs S&OP.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 29, 2014

Supply Chain Insights recently published a Metrics That Matter report covering both the Semiconductor and Hard Disk Drive (HDD) industries. Semiconductor is poised to consolidate, which will have huge impact on the metrics. – as information moves down the supply chain to the manufacturer. by CJ Wehlage. Growing Complexity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2024

Nvidia, Northrup Grumman, PACCAR Inc, PCA (Packaging Corporation of America), ResMed, Rockwell Automation, Ross Stores, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) Company, Tempur-Pedic, TJX, Toro, Toyota, West Pharma, United Tractors, and Urban Outfitters. The group’s response is, “Are these supply chain metrics?”

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Kinaxis

JULY 14, 2016

Puricelli Last month, I launched a new blog series on sales and operations planning (S&OP). Building upon the last post about foundational elements behind S&OP, I want to consider a question I get all the time from executives: “who really owns, or should own S&OP”? Team Composition.

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Silvon Software

MARCH 3, 2023

Having a strong Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) strategy ensures that your forecasts, raw materials availability and production capacity all match up and that the factory floor can meet its defined deadlines. But simply putting an S&OP strategy in place isn’t enough.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 7, 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

JANUARY 15, 2014

Frequently, I get asked the question, “What is the value of S&OP?” In 2005, I engaged with Sonoco Products, a packaging products and services company, to initiate some work on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). Alignment on a Metrics Portfolio. ” When I get the question, I smile.

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S&OP Illinois Agile and Lean Supply Chain Inventory Reduction 101

Logility

JANUARY 15, 2014

Frequently, I get asked the question, “What is the value of S&OP?” In 2005, I engaged with Sonoco Products, a packaging products and services company, to initiate some work on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). Alignment on a Metrics Portfolio. ” When I get the question, I smile.

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S&OP Illinois Agile and Lean Supply Chain Inventory Reduction 100

Logility

AUGUST 3, 2012

In today’s uncertain times, a clear vision and strategy of where you need to be is the key to rally the company and propel your business forward; forward into new markets, new geographies and ahead of your competition. One of the key challenges to a successful global S&OP process is the language barrier. ” *.

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Logility

JULY 31, 2015

In Part 1: An S&OP Q&A with SCM World’s Kevin O’Marah we discussed the drivers impacting S&OP, the value of the process and the changing rhythm of S&OP meetings. What is in your conversations with them that is different from those who are just starting and S&OP process?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. The number one question that I am asked today by manufacturers across all industries is “How can I improve customer service?” Here are nine considerations: #1 S&OP Budget Constraints. The Role of the Budget in S&OP.

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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 In our program, cost avoidance, while desirable, does not count towards the metric. We named it the Supply Chain Index.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In a survey of 150 global manufacturing executives, 47% committed to improving supply chain visibility and tracking. Supply chain visibility often means “where’s my stuff,” or the ability to trace parts in transit from the manufacturer to the final destination. What is supply chain visibility? Sightlines for success.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2014

With the purchase of i2 by JDA, and Logictools by IBM, manufacturing companies serious about network design started looking for a company, with a well-established community, that was more serious about network design. I smiled as I began to present the story of the “Metrics that Matter.” The reason?

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Logility

AUGUST 5, 2021

Integrated business planning ( IBP ) is gaining a lot of traction as more companies seek to advance their sales and operations planning (S&OP) process. It’s logical that a machined parts manufacturer and a grocery chain would review different KPIs in their IBP processes. For example: Verify your strategy.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 9, 2018

A new report from Nucleus Research, Value Drivers of Single Model S&OP , concludes that the historical disconnect between planning and execution in S&OP is best bridged by a single unified data model that allows companies to continuously synchronize their strategic, tactical and execution plans.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2024

During the 1980s, I was on a management team for a large manufacturer. The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team. Lack of aligned metrics.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

While MRP and S&OP were defined as early as the 1980s, these provided rough cut analysis at the aggregate level, nowhere near the level of detail that is possible today. Now they want to deploy an S&OP process. Their words. And the benefits we have realized so far are enough to justify continued investment.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Today, I am again teaching an open class on outside-in planning concept s. In today’s training class, we focused on determining the balanced scorecard. Based on the work with Georgia Tech, we are getting clear on which metrics matter by industry. If not, let’s pack more hamburger. The reason?

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Price index and price elasticity are useful metrics on their own, and a combination of these can help determine the right price point to maximize revenue and profit. Since there are often differences in store sizes, a metric representing the size can be added as well for a two-dimensional clustering approach.

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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. I worked three layers down in the organization for a well-established leader in manufacturing named Dan. Dan’s peer was a man named Fred.

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