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Good-bye siloed, functional planner. Hello storm chasing network planner.

Kinaxis

by Bill DuBois If you had anything to do with supply chain planning in the early days of enterprise resource planning (ERP), you may consider those years the “good ol’ days”. Aligning the supply plans to these new volatile demand profiles was no easy achievement. However, none of this physically destroyed your supply chain.

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Five Lessons Learned in 2020 – and Where to Go from Here

Bristlecone

We also witnessed the havoc that follows supply chain disruption and saw how even the world’s best healthcare infrastructures can instantly become overwhelmed. The pandemic hit China first, thus disrupting the supply chain of the entire world. Where do we go from here?