Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

For organizations layered in functional metrics and driving a cost agenda, this is a tough nut to crack. S&OP is too slow and cannot achieve the needed alignment. Process latency, the time for an organization to make a decision using a traditional S&OP process, is two-to-six weeks. Shift in cycles.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over the last five years, I have helped two companies, Sonoco Products and Owens Illinois (OI) with their selection of technologies to improve Sales and Operations (S&OP) planning. Their journey to be more market driven with a strong focus on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is now seven years old.

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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. Ideally, your S&OP KPIs should consist of a mix of strategic, tactical, and operational metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning. Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP). There is a lack of clarity on what drives value and metrics are functional. Planning data is often debated and participation in S&OP decisions is often ad hoc. Procurement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2013

Closing the gaps happens when there are aligned metrics, clarity of vision and aligned planning processes. They also are clear that the supply chain is defined outside-in based on the channel requirements and the underlying rhythms and cycles of fulfillment, manufacturing and procurement. Metrics Alignment. They lack cohesion.

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Logility

APRIL 13, 2021

Is it identical to sales and operations Planning (S&OP), an extension of it, or something altogether separate? Call it what you want, IBP is probably best thought of as mature S&OP. Lora Cecere reminds us that IBP is actually the third step of maturity in an S&OP implementation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2023

Let’s start with the basics. In traditional advanced planning applications (APS) for a manufacturing company, the forecasting model’s role is to generate a time-series forecast in the tactical horizon (outside of lead time). (An This blog post may seem a bit basic for some. Bear with me. I promise to answer the questions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. ” Let’s set the stage. Data Sharing and Procurement. Walk away from the automation of procurement for RFPs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Definition: “Someone’s efforts, resolve, or viability are tested; things are meaningfully challenging. The supply chain team’s past thirty-two months of disruption were a long, winding road full of surprises. ” Following the announcement, Ford’s stock closed at the lowest valuation in eleven years.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Over the course of the last two years, we at Supply Chain Insight s have worked on a methodology to gauge supply chain improvement. We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During In our program, cost avoidance, while desirable, does not count towards the metric. We named it the Supply Chain Index.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Next year’s conference will be on September 8th-11th in Franklin, TN, south of Nashville, TN. Here are nine considerations: #1 S&OP Budget Constraints. Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is a horizontal process to drive organizational plan alignment. The Role of the Budget in S&OP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2024

The class discovers the current blackholes of the supply chain (direct procurement and contract manufacturing. The evolution of S&OP to IBP increased process latency in 70% of companies. Lack of aligned metrics. Lack of recognition of supply chain flows and multiple supply chains. The problem is more profound.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 7, 2012

Q: Is it only inventory disrupting the agility resulting from inaccurate forecasts by S&OP? Is it S&OP? Also, invest time in improving the cross-functional processes of revenue management, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and Supplier Development.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2024

This morning, the New York Times pushed me an article by Peter S. Let’s face it our historic practices for demand planning create waste in a more variable world. The sad thing is that most companies will never know because they are blindly measuring the wrong metric and driving a supply-centric agenda.

Waste Reduction 195

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Logility

MARCH 24, 2021

The power of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) comes in helping companies align financial, sales, production, procurement and marketing information into a single plan, grounded in modern-day reality. Down here on the ground where real people are trying to run real businesses, there’s little time for semantic subtleties.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. As a result, focusing on cost and efficiency, and functional metrics throws the supply chain out of balance. Instead, most companies manage based on functional metrics—lowest manufacturing, procurement, or transportation costs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 20, 2012

We are trying to understand how supply chain leaders have raised the bar at the intersection of these four sets of metrics on the supply chain effective frontier. Many would argue it’s because supply chains grew more complex. I also believe that it is because the organization is not incented to manage cash-to-cash metrics.

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QAD

JULY 24, 2024

Enable Optimized Decision-Making In today’s fast-paced business environment, achieving alignment across all departments and trading partners is crucial for sustainable success. Effective Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) plays a crucial role in enhancing this business alignment.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 28, 2015

The demand for software solutions for sales & operations planning (S&OP) in particular is attracting new players, and cloud-based supply chain software solutions appear to be making a breakthrough. 24 | Management: Forecasting noise disturbs S&OP process. 33 | Overview S&OP software in Europe.

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QAD

JUNE 12, 2024

Understanding the Operations Leader’s Role in S&OP Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) requires a multi-functional team that allows each part of an organization to participate in the development of the process plan. The S&OP plan serves as a vital tool to be up-to-date with product changes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear. They also enable the evaluation of networks for both sales and procurement relationships to optimize the flows upstream and downstream. I would not stop with the physical design.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 29, 2016

New Year’s Eve is a time for parties. In the process, facts become gray and what’s ‘true’ is uncertain. As I study research methods, and the market, I realize the lies I’ve spun for prior employers (Gartner and AMR Research) are untrue: The AMR Research Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics.

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QAD

MAY 23, 2024

Leveraging our collective experience of over 70 years, my colleague Charlie Marge and I have been guiding businesses through the maze of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and IBP. Second, the addition of financial metrics into the process which now gives us IBP. However, adopting IBP is not just about merging metrics.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2023

It covers the basics of procurement, including procurement strategies, contract management, and supplier selection. You’ll also learn about supply chain management and the various stages of the procurement process. Pros: It forms part of the CIPS Level 2 Certificate in Procurement and Supply Operations qualification.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

Functional silos define today’s supply chain organization. My first job was in manufacturing in the 1980’s. Inside-out processes assume that the order represents demand, and that the supply chain’s role ends with a perfect shipment. The metrics reward functional thinking. The silos compete.

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Logility

JANUARY 22, 2014

This blog post is in response to recent results from the APICS/Logility Survey, Consumer Goods S&OP research, and ChainLink’s end-user research. I recently read a very good survey by Consumer Goods Technology , focused on S&OP.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement. Customer Satisfaction scores side by side with the service level and availability metrics. For businesses of all sizes, the digital transformation of supply chain planning became the most important initiative. .

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2015

In our research for the book Supply Chain Metrics That Matter , we find that this is the case for 90% of companies. As a result, if inventory is is arbitrarily reduced you can hurt the company’s ability to meet orders. Figure 2: S&OP Change Management Issues. Growth is difficult with stalled financial results.

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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. billion a year.

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Silvon Software

MARCH 16, 2023

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is a consensus-based communications process that provides insight and control over a company’s supply chain decisions. While a manufacturing organization can have an S&OP process in place, though, it can still have issues aligning demand and supply effectively.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Labor day also signals the end of summer, and for many supply chain leaders the beginning of 2017 strategy discussions and intense S&OP debates to finalize Q3 and Q4 planning. Before I started doing this research, I believed procurement and manufacturing were aligned. Together, let’s tackle building new capabilities!

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

Has your company ever suffered problems with, implemented, or even considered implementing a sales and operations (S&OP) planning process? But what makes it so challenging to implement S&OP successfully? Why S&OP Needs a Lot of Human Investment. Who’s Who in the S&OP Process?

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 19, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, having an efficient supply chain department is more important than ever. While Its primary purpose is to manage the entire process, from procurement to delivery, efficiently and cost-effectively, it also coordinates with production to automate processes and planning, etc.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 18, 2015

The practices are still emerging and have morphed dramatically over the course of the supply chain leader’s career. For perspective, let’s look back at history. In discrete industries, the early supply chain organizations reported to procurement. Looking Back at History. The goal was efficiency.

Sourcing Strategies 150

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BlueYonder

APRIL 1, 2014

Without a shared set of metrics between the commercial and operational teams, it is extremely difficult to get alignment between them. Examples of shared metrics include customer service levels, inventory turns, sell-through forecast accuracy, total landed cost, and overall profitability of the business. Agile systems.

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QAD

JUNE 6, 2023

This is especially true for sales and operations planning (S&OP) and financial planning. Where the Gaps Exist In essence S&OP is all about collaboration. Many companies believed collaboration should occur amongst sales forecasting, operations planning and procurement planning teams.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Digital transformation is not seen as a singular activity but a set of interrelated activities that span across people, process, technology, policy, and metrics,” said George Fowler, group vice president in Spinnaker’s Supply Chain business unit. Visit www.ToolsGroup.com and follow us on Twitter @ToolsGroup. About Spinnaker.

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