Last year I attended IBF’s conference in Orlando on demand planning, forecasting and S&OP with many peers and industry leaders. During the leadership forum,... Read More...
The complex, cross-functional nature of S&OP and the cultural change required for effective execution mean that many organizations struggle to deploy and su... Read More...
In my years of experience leading implementation projects for such vital processes as S&OP, I have noticed that Tom Wallace and Bob Stahl were right when th... Read More...
"I hate this part of my job -there's no way to be right." I'd had the same thought many times.
I was talking to a fellow demand planner, who was under pressu... Read More...
Whilst S&OP was first developed and applied in the 1980s, best practice for its design, deployment sustainability is still fervently debated. A common theme... Read More...
What are the goals of business? To maximize profits! From a supply chain perspective, how do we accomplish this? Let’s look at some of the key aspects of how su... Read More...
A key element in sustaining a competitive advantage in today’s global business environment is an effective Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process. S... Read More...
It's very common in forecasting to aggregate data in order to increase the signal/noise ratio, and there are several papers out there regarding the significant ... Read More...
There is an age-old debate in demand planning: should you strive to be a “one number company” where all functions work to the same forecast. The idea is that a ... Read More...
Selecting the right model plays a very important role in predictive analytics and forecasting. Use the wrong model, and you might as not have bothered at all. U... Read More...
