Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. 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.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Here are ways smart supply chain planning can help you minimize those post-pandemic shortages while still meeting your business objectives. The following strategies, based on data, analytics, and collaboration, are helping planners around the globe overcome a disrupted supply chain. Get your product portfolio in shape.

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DynaSys

MARCH 17, 2021

IBP vs S&OP. Determine The Financial Costs Of Supply And Planning Decisions. Organizational metrics are important. S&OP plans often focus on objectives like on-time in-full (OTIF) , inventory turns, and resource utilization. IBP allows to integrate the S&OP plan with the financial plan.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 15, 2022

There is so much data, and to make use of it, we need to use data mining and analytics to drive meaningful insights that can be put to some good use. ABC analysis creates product segments by grouping products with similar sales volume or purchase frequency to enable category managers to focus on what matters most.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

One day, a product is flying off the shelves, and the next, it’s gathering dust. That’s why staying on top of the latest supply chain planning trends is so important – they can make all the difference when it comes to staying competitive, reducing costs, and meeting your customers’ needs.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 16, 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

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. Cost-to-Serve and Top-to-Top Meetings. Criticality of Corporate Social Responsibility.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 18, 2015

Introduction For many companies the implementation of a formal Sales and Operation Planning (“S&OP”) process has not delivered the expected improvement in demand and supply integration. Overly focused on efficiency and cost savings, i.e. on the “O,” the “S” in S&OP now seems to have become an afterthought.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement. The First Step: Bring all the data together and ensure analytics and planning can happen on the same platform. . Accurate and timely reconciliation of purchase orders with receipts.

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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 budget is for a fiscal year with quarter reporting and updates. Financial forecasts tend to have a negative bias (forecasts less than market potential) to ensure that employees have a better probability of meeting their bonuses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This means we need more agile, flexible, and scalable planning platforms to process and consolidate new data sources, drive insights using advanced analytics such as AI/ML to drive autonomous decisions, and expand collaboration within and outside our organizations. So what to do? Composability is the answer to that challenge.

Supply Chain Planning Software 287

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 24, 2015

by Lori Smith Can the S&OP process be done without technology? So what technologies are today’s supply chain teams using to support the critical S&OP process? In addition, companies will have two to five S&OP processes working independently.”. Provide in-depth analysis using complex analytics.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 10, 2018

Computing power and storage capacity have grown exponentially, while the cost of both have plummeted. More and better data has turned demand analytics into mainstream reality. It typically involves meeting with multiple stakeholders and building consensus forecasts. Let’s take a few minutes to decode it. Demand Planning.

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Logility

JANUARY 26, 2024

Depending on who you ask, the answer can be anything from low costs and efficiency to a delicate balance between profitability and customer service. The fusion of General AI and Narrow AI – collectively termed AI+ – is set to revolutionize how knowledge workers engage with inventory management, S&OP, and supply planning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting. I saw how their platform unified finance and procurement activities, but not supply chain. Coupa meets this definition. That has recently changed.

Supply Chain Design Software 273

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QAD

MAY 22, 2025

In today’s volatile global trade landscape, enterprises face ongoing pressure to optimize their supply chain operations. Rising costs, geopolitical tensions, and tariffs demand a strategic and holistic approach to maintain profitability and competitive advantage. There are many ways an organization can cut supply chain costs.

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Logility

MARCH 24, 2021

The power of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) comes in helping companies align financial, sales, production, procurement and marketing information into a single plan, grounded in modern-day reality. You need to examine revenue, cost and margin impacts of every scenario under consideration.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2024

This morning, the New York Times pushed me an article by Peter S. Let’s face it our historic practices for demand planning create waste in a more variable world. The sad thing is that most companies will never know because they are blindly measuring the wrong metric and driving a supply-centric agenda.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

That takes a data-driven approach to forecasting, procurement and distribution. Predict the Blitz With QADs AI-driven forecasting, anticipate demand shifts, adjust production schedules, and avoid scrambling at the last minute. As mentioned, the secret is agility, resilience, and efficiencyoptimizing your people, processes and systems.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Walmart brings extreme fulfillment expertise to the table, and Google has the technologies for language processing, artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics. Traditional calendar-based sales and operations planning (S&OP) is blown out of the water, as there will always be the requirement to adapt to what consumers want.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

SIOP stands for “Sales, Inventory, Operations Plan”, not to be confused with “S&OP”. Traditional S&OP planning often deals with product families or wide-ranging product categories and though providing valuable data, this process delivers results at an aggregate or macro level.

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QAD

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Corporate purchasing leaders must not only manage transactional data effectively but also use this data from stakeholders across the organization to create a more collaborative environment that creates trust and benefits to both customers and suppliers. Grammer uses QAD SRM to manage its supply base.

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Logility

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Planting the Seeds of Resilience Most companies understand that accurate forecasts are critical to minimizing inventory, maximizing production efficiency, streamlining purchasing, optimizing distribution, minimizing waste, and projecting future performance confidently.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2025

This can create a detrimental ripple effect, impairing your ability to meet your own financial obligations to suppliers, thereby propagating financial instability throughout the supply chain. During the 2008 recession, Walmart strengthened its supply chain by investing in predictive analytics and real-time demand forecasting.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 18, 2024

ThroughPut AI: Best for supply chain analytics and decision intelligence WATCH ON-DEMAND THROUGHPUT AI DEMO With Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), a very powerful force comes into play in your supply chain decision-making processes with ThroughPut AI.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 13, 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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Enterra Insights

JULY 18, 2019

.”[1] At the same time, writes SAS’ Rodney Weidemann, “The impact of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and cognitive computing — the latter underpinned by big data and advanced data analytics — is beginning to be felt.”[2] Path to Purchase. ”[3]. They are: 1.

Omnichannel 162

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Logility

AUGUST 12, 2021

Most companies understand that accurate forecasts are a critical part of minimizing inventory, maximizing production efficiency, streamlining purchasing, optimizing distribution, minimizing waste, and projecting future performance confidently. Preparing for Market-Driven Demand. Planting the Seeds for Success.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

That’s why the supply chain team proactively kicked off a series of meetings. Long lead times left them exposed, they could burn through safety stock and not have enough inventory to meet an order. Ipsen purchased the RapidResponse supply chain planning product from Kinaxis. Ipsen also need to reduce their lead times.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 20, 2018

To spur trade and create wealth, explorers have plied the world’s oceans and have traversed the globe’s landmasses. And] 30% of major retailers will adopt a retail omnichannel commerce platform that integrates a data analytics layer that centrally orchestrates omnichannel capabilities.” ”[2].

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 27, 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.

S&OP 60

S&OP Supply and Demand Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software 60

Logility

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Time travel still only exists in science fiction; however, if I could go back, based on what I know today, I can think of a few supply chain-related things I would have done differently when I was implementing and running sales and operation planning processes ( S&OP ).

Supply Chain Planning Software 100

Supply Chain Planning Software Scenario Planning Supply Chain Planning S&OP 100

ToolsGroup

JULY 10, 2018

Computing power and storage capacity have grown exponentially, while the cost of both have plummeted. More and better data has turned demand analytics into mainstream reality. It typically involves meeting with multiple stakeholders and building consensus forecasts. Let’s take a few minutes to decode it. Demand Planning.

Supply and Demand 120

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Enterra Insights

JULY 30, 2021

As Tom Standage ( @tomstandage ), editor of The Economist ‘s ‘ The World in 2021 ‘, reminds us, the digital path to purchase is increasingly becoming the customer journey of choice. ”[2] Were that survey conducted today, I suspect an even larger number of consumers would report losing confidence in the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

This creates the perception among consumers that Zara''s products are unique and you have to take it while stock lasts. To cope with this, P&G conducts a merchandise testing at the pilot stores to determine the customer''s response to new product before the launch. If product sales is good, a larger batch will be ordered.

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Logility

JANUARY 16, 2017

This is the first of a series of five posts that investigates common myths and mistruths I have heard over the last 20+ years regarding Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP). Hopefully, by exploring these myths we can generate a greater understanding of what S&OP is and what it is not.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 11, 2013

A new Bloomberg Business Week Research Services survey and report makes it clear that innovative supply chain tools are widely acknowledged to be crucial to meeting corporate goals now and in the future as supply chains grow more complex, customers become more demanding and globalization accelerates. He is certified as a C.P.M.,CPIM,

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