Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

S&OP Slip Slidin’ Away. …the same is happening in supply chain processes. In Figure 1, note the slippage in S&OP over the past three years. Why is progress in S&OP slip slidin’ away? Great S&OP processes start with clarity of strategy. My conclusion?

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Logility

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) has been a longstanding practice for businesses across nearly every industry. However, this critical supply chain process has been under enormous stress lately from departmental silos, complex trading partner networks, and geopolitical turmoil.

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Logility

JUNE 23, 2023

 S&OP and Multi-Horizon Integrated Business Planning Manual supply chain processes are a real headache. Supply chain organizations are no strangers to this frustration. Such steps include innovation and strategy review, demand review, supply review, financial integration, and executive business review.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) as a process has been around since the 1980’s. While the terminology evolved, the underlying thesis of S&OP has stayed the same, i.e., bridge the divide between sales forecasts and operational plans while respecting the budget.

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Logility

JUNE 9, 2023

The Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo conference brings thousands of supply chain executives together. Instead of enjoying world-famous theme parks, and nightlife in Orlando, Florida this year, attendees explored new ideas and technology investments that drive business growth and create more resilient supply chains.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 11, 2022

“Over the last fifteen years,” writes Lora Cecere ( @lcecere ), founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, “Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) enjoyed a renaissance.”[1] ”[1] She also hints it’s time to move on. ”[2] Quasney’s views motivated Robert J.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I wrote my first report on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) while sitting on the floor in the Atlanta airport in 2005 when I was an AMR Research analyst. The model in Figure 1 became the foundational model for the Gartner S&OP model. Sales and Operations Maturity Model from 2005-2008. Figures 2 and 3.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 17, 2022

Many organizations are still struggling to understand and implement basic Sales and Operations Planning processes to cope with supply chain disruption. Unfortunately, the definitions of S&OP and IBP are often confusing as they seem to be both distinct and overlapping processes. There’s a clue in the name.

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John Galt

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Explore why evolving traditional Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) to a strategic IBP process is critical for today’s supply chains.

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Silvon Software

JUNE 1, 2023

KPIs are essential in S&OP as they provide a quantitative framework for gaining visibility, aligning efforts, supporting decision-making, and driving continuous improvement across the business. But how do you know if you are using the right KPIs, including both stakeholder and supply chain performance measures?

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Arkieva

MARCH 24, 2021

For your business to effectively carry out the supply chain planning process, you will need to link up your short-term and medium-term, to the executive level S&OP plan so that it drives your tactical planning and operational planning.

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Supply Chain Brief Submitted Articles

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The client engaged Clarkston’s life sciences and supply chain experts to align and train its organization on a S&OP process roadmap.

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I have been talking to a number of FMCG Regional and Market Leaders in the past few months about the supply chain challenges that they face in African and Middle Eastern Markets. Most understand the benefits of a Sales and Operational Planning (S&OP) process.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

That got me to thinking about decoding the language of Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) which, like demand forecasting, has also taken on multiple personalities as it has matured. More broadly said, S&OP enables a company’s leadership to view the business holistically and gives them a window into the future.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 2, 2017

A lasso is what supply chain leaders would like to have. To align S&OP. As companies transitioned from regional to multi-national organizations, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes proliferated. The proliferation of S&OP is not a trivial topic. Let me explain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 2, 2017

A lasso is what supply chain leaders would like to have. To align S&OP. As companies transitioned from regional to multi-national organizations, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes proliferated. There needs to be a common definition of supply chain excellence.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In fact, Yossi Sheffi ( @YossiSheffi ), the Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT, asserts data is a company’s most important asset. 1] That’s why most business consultants insist that organizations built on a foundation of Industrial Age processes need to transform into digital enterprises.

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AIMMS

AUGUST 3, 2020

However, one-third of SCP leaders cite “the lack of effective decision making in the S&OP meeting process as the most critical problem to solve for their function’s overall performance” (source: Gartner, Improve S&OP Decision Making Through Scenario Planning, Supply Chain Research Team, 4 May 2020).

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AIMMS

JULY 23, 2019

The agribusiness supply chain is highly complex. It’s not limited to managing crops and livestock, but encompasses all equipment, services, and product processing as well as commercialization. A well-executed S&OP process can go a long way to help organizations rein in some of this complexity.

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Adexa

MARCH 29, 2021

Gartner reports that almost 70% of companies are either at stage 2 or 3 of supply chain maturity. Stage 3 is generally attributed to the use of S&OP technology in the supply chain. Perhaps you have already implemented S&OP or in the process of or thinking about it.

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Arkieva

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This blog discusses the pros and cons of the three most common S&OP methods: top-down, bottom-up and countercurrent planning. Battle of the S&OP Methods was first posted on November 15, 2022 at 8:08 am. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Supply management. Supply chain management. Supply chain planning. Today’s headline news includes AllBirds, Boeing, Canada Goose, Chemours, EMC, Hanes Brands, Fisker, Ford, Krispy Kreme, LKQ, Ryder, Tesla, Timken, Tyson Foods, Weight Watchers International, and WestRock. Are these terms the same?

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Logility

JULY 21, 2023

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) was created way back in the 1980s. But it is relevant to today’s world of supply chain disruptions and uncertainty? But traditional S&OP cycles, carried out monthly or quarterly, seem insufficient to deal with the rapid changes in the market that businesses are seeing today.

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Elementum

JUNE 18, 2021

Dear S&OP, First of all, “A for Effort”. For 10 years, you touted the Secret Sauce to Supply Chain optimization. “There’s S&OP…and then there’s the real world.” The reality is… Planning doesn’t make a supply chain agile. S&OP is hard to implement.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 10, 2017

Gartner Research just released its new Magic Quadrant for Sales & Operations Planning Systems of Differentiation (S&OP SOD). One example of a changing user requirement is the ascendancy of supply chain modeling to the highest priority in Gartner’s Market Ranking of S&OP Capabilities.

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Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The latest generation of sales and operations planning (S&OP) applications are providing better tools for managing supply chains internally.

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Elementum

JUNE 18, 2021

Dear S&OP, First of all, “A for Effort”. For 10 years, you touted the Secret Sauce to Supply Chain optimization. There’s S&OP.and then there’s the real world.". Planning doesn't make a supply chain agile. Only 11% of manufacturers are able to consistently, accurately tie S&OP to execution.

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

JULY 14, 2021

The Enchange Supply Chain House ; the one stop shop for all the elements you need to allow your supply chain to operate effectively. As described in the introductory Planning article , plan appears in every room in the Supply Chain House and rightly so.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

The global supply chain is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, availability of reasonably priced logistics, and low variability. In March 2023, the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index fell to the lowest level since November 2008. S&OP is too slow and cannot achieve the needed alignment.

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

APRIL 21, 2021

I know I am prone to rattle on about Sales & Operational Planning (S&OP) but seeing the benefits being delivered to previously struggling businesses is extremely motivating for a confirmed “techy” like myself.

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Logility

AUGUST 5, 2021

From shifts in consumer demand to new regulations and disruption in market dynamics and supply networks, food and beverage (F&B) industry executives have always had many reasons to stay alert. But lately, a new set of supply chain challenges is making everyone more concerned that their business could fall behind overnight.

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Logility

AUGUST 11, 2023

Disruptions are the norm in supply chain planning leaders. Gartner research reveals that 60% of chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) are under pressure to make real-time decisions faster, more accurately, and consistently. And the stakes are intensifying. We can now decide when to act to mitigate risk in the future.

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Demand Solutions

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Sales and operations planning, also known as S&OP, is a key business activity for production heavy firms. It integrates sales & marketing strategies with supply chain considerations, allowing for a more unified mission across multiple departments of the business. Why Focus on S&OP?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 15, 2023

Let me explain, if you fill out one of my surveys on LinkedIn, I share the research results in front of the paywall (I believe that supply chain research should be readily available and not locked behind a paywall.) (If Most see their supply chain as fixed and insular.

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