How S&OP Mitigates Risk In Pharma Distribution (AND SAVES LIVES)
Medicines must be delivered to patients at the right time, with the required quality, and at the right price. The consequences of stocks outs and poor forecasts... Read More...
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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 Implement S&OP: What Businesses Need From Demand Planners
So you've been tasked with implementing or improving S&OP or IBP. Where do you start? What does the Commercial function really need from S&OP? What must... Read More...
5 Major Benefits of S&OP For Your Company, And How To Achieve Them
Sales and Operation Planning (S&OP) is probably the least understood aspect in Supply Chain Management. It provides the key communication links for top mana... Read More...
12 Golden Rules For Implementing ERP For Improved Demand Planning And S&OP
In most companies, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) provides the informational backbone needed to manage day-to-day tasks and processes. The system connects p... Read More...
Pat’s Quick Hits For Inventory Reduction Part 2
Last week we looked at cutting inventory through improving inventory quality (getting rid of obsolete or low value stock) and reclassifying mislabelled inventor... Read More...
The Demand Planner Of The Future Will Not Report To Supply Chain
Seth Godin, bestselling author of the books Tribes and Linchpin, once said in an interview that if you can only do what someone else tells you to do and nothing... Read More...
JBF 2018 Special Issue: Letter From The Editor
The Journal of Business Forecasting Winter 2017/2018 Issue is available now for download. Below is a letter from the Editor, Professor Chaman L. Jain, revealing... Read More...
Pat’s Quick Hits For Inventory Reduction: Part 1
In the first of this mini-series, Pat Bower of Combe Inc. reveals the quickest and easiest ways to reduce inventory. Detailing the preferred methods used by lea... Read More...
How to Improve the Global S&OP Process: Hollister’s Journey
Lewis Carroll once wrote, “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” Watts H. Humphrey, the American software engineer countered with... Read More...