Do your suppliers recognize your company as a Customer of Choice? What does this distinction mean and why is it important? A Customer of Choice is one that supp... Read More...
Interpreting market demand data is one of the most vital concepts in Demand Planning. Effective management of demand greatly improves responsiveness and positi... Read More...
Almost three decades ago Sales and Operational Planning (S&OP) burst onto the Supply Chain scene as the latest innovation. When S&OP as a concept emerge... Read More...
You may think that Demand Management in Supply Chain is straightforward. Oh, how wrong you would be! Here in the UK, we have a problem with OTIF (On Time, In Fu... Read More...
There's a huge amount of information on the deployment of S&OP – at the last count there were around 40 million hits on a combined search of S&OP and IB... Read More...
Silo Mentality will hold back any company, but for Supply Chain oriented companies it can be a death sentence. It is a term we are all familiar with, but many o... Read More...
It used to be that companies competed on price and service. Today, they are competing more on Big Data and technology. In the future, according to research by t... Read More...
Since 2011, I’ve been teaching Supply Chain Risk Management at Lehigh University. Developing a new MBA class in Supply Chain Risk for our supply chain MBA stude... Read More...
Ecommerce is changing how we see Demand Planning and ushering in new rules and best practices. Traditional businesses that moved into eCommerce must deal with t... Read More...
I am not a big fan of “2 in 1 shampoo” where the cleanser and conditioner are blended into one bottle. They say that it saves money because you only have to buy... Read More...
