DELMIA Quintiq

JULY 5, 2017

From my previous blog post , it’s clear that the road to achieving sales and operations planning (S&OP) excellence is not an easy one. But having the right solution to drive performance, beat the competition and maximize profits is a step in the right direction. This is where your S&OP workflow comes in.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Founded in 2000, Steelwedge was an innovator in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and was an early provider of cloud solutions for supply chain. ” The company’s press release rhetoric is bullish. ” I struggled to understand how a company focused just on S&OP could be viable.

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SCMDOJO

DECEMBER 29, 2024

SCMDOJO Academy elevates your procurement and supply chain skills through its extensive course library. Mastering Procurement – Essentials Skills and Competencies Mastering Procurement by Maryna Trepova is the ultimate Procurement and Purchase Management course for Engineers, Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Students.

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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. To respond, follow this link. Organizational Alignment. Functional Metrics.

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AIMMS

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Throughout the years, we’ve witnessed waves of interest in S&OP and its evolution IBP, which incorporates financial planning. In the past 2 years, we’ve seen the appeal of S&OP increase a lot more. In this blog post, I will delve into 5 issues companies typically experience with their S&OP software.

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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. Coupa also offers a robust, market share leading, supply chain design solution. The supply chain design solution, for example, continues to grow in depth and usability.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Dashboard with scenario comparison and KPIs for decision making in S&OP. Here, planning solutions with optimization fit very well with this concept. Figure 1 shows a dashboard that exemplifies this concept. The best decision here takes into account the most viable option among all possible options.

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Logility

DECEMBER 15, 2023

From harvest to hands, the food & beverage (F&B) industry leaves no room for guesswork, especially without supply chain optimization software. Then, F&B businesses can transform diverse information from sales, production, finance, marketing, transportation, and procurement into one comprehensive business plan.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 18, 2024

CAGR , the global supply chain management software market is expected to touch USD 50 billion by 2032. This one figure speaks volumes about how organizations worldwide want access to the best supply chain management tools to boost efficiency and value in their distribution and logistics network. Growing at an overwhelming rate of 11.1%

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In this blog, we will explore and compare the supply chain courses available on both platforms, diving deep into aspects such as focus and specialization, pricing, availability of practical tools, ease of use, and more. Pricing Structure Affordable pricing, with annual access to purchased courses and practical resources through Pro Plan.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2013

They knew little about the software market. In the beginning, the inventory management solutions of LogicTools , Optiant and SmartOps pushed to take operations research to a new level through supply chain optimization. SmartOps was purchased by SAP. SAP released an S&OP solution using HANA in 2011.

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Logility

JULY 20, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to be sure you’re equipping your organization with the right demand planning software. When you choose the right solution, you can stay ahead of fluctuations in customer demand, achieve high levels of forecast accuracy, handle seasonality, and drive collaboration across supply chain stakeholders.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 3, 2025

Below are the individual web links and prime takeaway messages from each of our prior postings: Part One : Michael observed that standard sourcing solutions struggle to support direct materials sourcing because of specific challenges in legacy software design. Data and information flow has the context of outside in and inside out.

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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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Demand Solutions

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

It’s a safe assumption then that the majority of U.S. I hate to ruin the party, but here’s a fresh thought about the budgeting process: Should it ever end? You make the bed, you do the dishes, and six months later it’s time to start all over again.” They’re published.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

One of the ways to ensure your supply chain is ready for the next crisis is to test its resiliency by leveraging digital S&OP tools. . With the right simulation tool in place, your S&OP team has increased visibility to make “on-the-fly” calculations.

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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. Depending on the nature of your business, your trading partners or your location, this could include procurement strategies, demand planning, logistics, and global trade management among others.

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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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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 18, 2014

At the store, the salesman showed him the newest tool for cutting trees called a chain saw. But if you consider how many people think about supply chain software it’s like the old lumberjack and the chain saw. The chain saw was a revolutionary tool and if used right, could make a single man more effective than a team of two.

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Logility

AUGUST 31, 2023

This experience is not only frustrating industry executives – it’s compelling them to reassess their sales and operations planning (S&OP) process. Capacity planning drives production plans, cadence, and raw material procurement and has cost-justified an investment in small-batch processing equipment.

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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? It never ceases to surprise me when I hear how many enterprises entrust a mission-critical task to the desktop spreadsheet software Excel®.

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DynaSys

MARCH 17, 2021

IBP vs S&OP. 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. IBP allows to integrate the S&OP plan with the financial plan.

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Logility

APRIL 26, 2021

Integrated business planning (IBP) is gaining traction as more companies look at refining their sales and operations planning (S&OP) process. To that end, let’s reiterate the distinction between IBP and S&OP before we dive into some tips on how to make integrated business planning a success.

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Logility

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes have evolved over the last 30 years to address this age-old problem, yet recently SCM World declared “S&OP is still the top inquiry within the SCM World community.”* The struggle to balance customer demand with available supply is as old as trade itself.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 20, 2014

However, what is clear from our recent study of 73 manufacturers using supply chain planning is that companies using best-of-breed solutions implement faster, achieve a quicker Return-on-Investment (ROI), and are more satisfied. Let’s start with a definition. Today, in many organizations, these solutions are legacy.

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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. The key point is that I have spent a lot of my working life focused on the value generated by more advanced planning solutions. She states that.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Many of the case studies being presented at today’s conferences were born during the pandemic and the post-pandemic turbulence. Leaders of the 90’s Are No Longer Leaders. Today’s risk management solutions focus largely on supply sensing and early alerting. As I listen, I struggle. Learning Stalled.

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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. Quantity of goods in the order.

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Arkieva

JUNE 28, 2016

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a continuous business process that enables firms from hospitals to chemicals to respond to emerging situations intelligently. Our focus today is to discuss the relevance of buzz words such as Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Data Science, and Machine Learning, for S&OP.

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Logility

JANUARY 26, 2024

In response, supply leaders must acquire better decision-making support, such as AI-first solutions. According to Allan Dow, President of Logility and CEO and President of American Software, “As 2023 marked a year of potential and speculation around AI, the year ahead beckons a practical application of its capabilities.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 3, 2014

The typical example is as follows; A company uses complex software to model the supply chain considering a desired customer service level, lead time data, and statistical analysis of supply and demand variability. One example that I’ve seen several times is around inventory targets. However, for most a more measured approach is suggested.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2023

Let’s focus first on John. His organization purchased an advanced planning technology from well-known best of breed provider, and the implementation should have been successful, but it was not. BTW, John’s situation is more common that most people acknowledge.) So, how does John maneuver through the ring of fire?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 23, 2023

In 2012, I published an article on Sales and Operations Technology (S&OP) Maturity. (I At the time, one of the people (let’s call him Noel) that I great respect for in the industry called me to say, “Lora, I don’t get it. Let’s start with a definition of concurrency.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 25, 2019

I’ll be honest, it would be great to get everything from one supply chain software vendor. How free is free software? Why would we pay that much for supply chain planning software when our enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor is actually giving some of those capabilities away? But do the economics work out? Does it work?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 1, 2015

The news from SAP Insider is a continued drumbeat on the HANA rewrite of SAP’s supply chain applications. In the research for my inventory optimization report, the lowest level of satisfaction with multi-tier inventory optimization is with clients of the SAP inventory solution (previously purchased from SmartOps).

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