What does the S&OP today look like? How has it evolved since its inception in 1990s, and is there a modern textbook process that best-in-class companies fol... Read More...
In the latest episode of the IBF On Demand podcast, sponsored by Arkieva, I ask whether S&OP is dead, and if it can be saved.
IBF research shows that mos... Read More...
I have been writing and talking about S&OP for the past 20 years, and one of they key reasons I have focused on it over other Supply Chain Management proces... Read More...
When it comes to visualizing data in the S&OP process, most stakeholders like to see forecasting outputs in the form that they are most familiar with – Exce... Read More...
When people talk about the forecasting/predictive analytics process, there is one crucial part we tend to miss out – the presentation. It is like running a mar... Read More...
We are often so busy using statistical models or trying to understand machine learning when our customers may have some of the answers already. Your customers c... Read More...
Does your supply chain know how the commercial team intends to succeed in the marketplace? If not, how can it adequately support the commercial strategy?
In ... Read More...
In most companies Demand Planners load the base plan for the most likely scenario into the demand planning tool, which in turn triggers the supply plan. The dow... Read More...
I have never seen two demand planners working in the same way. Sometimes I am really surprised how different the same role can be in different organizations - o... Read More...
Nobody likes bad news. It is difficult to deliver and more difficult to be accepted. And as the messenger, delivering the bad news of lower forecasts can make o... Read More...
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