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How to make S&OP meetings a highlight in your team’s calendar

AIMMS

We recently offered a workshop at LogiChem, a chemical industry conference. Our workshop simulated a Capacity Review session. During the workshop, we learned that virtually all attendees had a pain point in common: they always had to go back to their desk to test different scenarios after an S&OP meeting.

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How to make S&OP meetings a highlight in your team’s calendar

AIMMS

We recently offered a workshop at LogiChem, a chemical industry conference. Our workshop simulated a Capacity Review session. During the workshop, we learned that virtually all attendees had a pain point in common: they always had to go back to their desk to test different scenarios after an S&OP meeting.

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Supply Chain Planning Software Vendor Selection: What they Won’t Tell You

Logility

Getting Started: Make Value Your North Star When it comes to selecting supply chain planning & operations solutions partners, the focus on delivering value should start even before the first vendor meeting. They’re not coming to all the meetings and they’re not involved in all the micro-decisions that get made.

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My Failure Of Using Design Thinking To Drive Supply Chain Innovation

Supply Chain Shaman

I studied design thinking for four years before facilitating a design thinking workshop. When I attempted to facilitate design thinking workshops on my own in 2015, I was bullish on the concepts. However, a problem arises when you try to design to meet the needs of a collection of individuals not aligned as a team.

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Unleashed Cash Flow Workshop: Experts Share Tips for Generating Cash Flow & Mitigating Risk

Unleashed

Overstocking became a necessary evil for many companies as they struggled to meet customer demand throughout the recent onslaught of supply chain disruptions. As a result, significant amounts of cash flow remain tied up in unmoving inventory.

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Editor’s Choice: 8 Supply Chain Planning Challenges Retailers Will Face In 2022 And Tips To Overcome Them

Logistics Viewpoints

Insufficient materials to meet customer demand. The ongoing chip crisis since last year affecting 100+ industries is the best example: supply couldn’t meet the increased demand, which led to rising prices and shortages in computers, cars, and pretty much any other electronics product with chips.

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When is a Leader not a Leader? – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Over a period of five years, I co-facilitated a coaching skills workshop and one of the exercises we gave participants was to split them into four teams, give them a flip chart and pose the question, “What are the key attributes of the best leader for whom you have ever worked?” Can a manager be a good leader too? It is a question of balance.