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The supply chain planning system crystal ball

Kinaxis

Today’s supply chain professionals need a crystal ball, too. For example, if a supply chain professional accepts a new order, can they deliver it on time? If they offer a promotion, can the supply chain support it? Planning systems, however, are not designed to allow you to ask ‘what if?’

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Moore’s Law and supply chain planning systems

Kinaxis

These advances continue to have major implications on how companies plan their supply chains. In my nearly two decades as a supply chain professional, I have seen quite a few changes. Let’s look at some of the big shifts that have taken place in the supply chain planning space.

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What’s Wrong with your Supply Chain Planning System: Twelve Symptoms

ToolsGroup

The right SCP technology avoids key symptoms that reduce planner productivity, plan timeliness and plan usability. Now with Gartner’s help, supply chain execs can do something similar with their supply chain planning (SCP) system. If that’s not happening, too much manual intervention ensues.

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Want to Produce Supply Chain Plans with Precision and Speed? Your ERP System Won’t Deliver!

Logility

Even as the dust begins to settle from one disruption, supply chain organizations are getting ready to handle the next. But lately, their response is impacting much more than the transactional push and pull between supply and demand. Rethinking the Relevance of ERP for the Supply Chain.

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How Data Science and Modeling Can Supercharge Your Risk Management

Speaker: Dr. Ken Fordyce, Solutions Director, Supply Chain and Advanced Analytics at Arkieva

Risk management is defined as anticipating and responding to an event not yet part of the plan of record that requires a significant adjustment in your demand-supply network (DSN). COVID-19 has put risk management at the front and center in the supply chain world. How to avoid data-driven disasters.

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

by Trevor Miles I have been in the advanced planning and scheduling (APS) space since 1995 when I joined i2 Technologies in Europe. Before that I was in management consulting doing what would be called supply chain design or reengineering today. Let me start with the confusion between planning and execution.

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Insights into ERP systems in supply chain planning and implementation

Kinaxis

In my interview we discuss how to define enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in supply chain planning, the reasons why we need ERP systems, problems faced with implementation and how to successfully implement a new ERP system in a corporation. DM: Can you talk about why we need ERP systems?

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TMS+: Go Beyond Transport to Optimize Cost, Service, & Resiliency

In the aftermath of the pandemic, supply chain inadequacies have been revealed in a new and stark light. Most found themselves ill-prepared for the magnitude of disruption in supply and demand, followed soon after by political unrest, labor and material shortages, and sharp inflation.

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Webinar On-Demand: 3 Ways to Make Your Operational Execution More Robust With S&OE

Speaker: Sander van Lokven and N.S. Krishnan

S&OE provides an early warning system that helps business stakeholders sense and optimize their responses. This keeps the supply chain out of firefighting mode, smoothens relationships with customers and suppliers, and helps sustain margins by reducing the cost to serve. How S&OE is different from S&OP & the gap that exists.