Balancing Supply & Demand: The 5 Core Steps
Alignment of demand and supply has been the subject of extensive research but is still a pain point for many organizations, causing either lost sales on the one... Read More...
How To Guides
Business Efficiency Planning For Effective S&OP
Business Efficiency Planning (BEP) works to align all functional areas around common business goals and enable and coordinate decision making to achieve the mos... Read More...
S&OP KICK OFF GUIDE: PART II
In the previous article we talked about the essential requirements for people and processes to ensure successful S&OP. In this second part, we will talk abo... Read More...
S&OP Kick Off Guide
The purpose of this article is to make clear the essential requirements for sustainable S&OP process implementation. S&OP implementation has a high fail... Read More...
How To Build A Strategic Capability in S&OP
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...
How To Balance Demand & Supply In Omnichannel
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...
How To Deploy Global S&OP
I recently led the successful deployment of global S&OP in a top 10 pharmaceutical company. It covered all business units and regions in this $40 billion tu... Read More...
How To Use Facebook’s Prophet
Working in a SME with limited resources, the kind of sophisticated forecasting tools used by the major multinationals can seem far out of reach. For people in s... Read More...
How To Use Forecast Value Added Analysis
Forecast accuracy has always been measured, but now it is becoming a key performance indicator (KPI) for many supply chains. But are we measuring the right thin... Read More...
How To Use Microsoft Azure
If, like me, you work in a small to medium sized enterprise where forecasting is still done with pen and paper, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Machine Lear... Read More...