Executive S&OP

Transforming the Supply Chain with Forecasting and Demand Planning at Electrocomponents plc

Andrew LewisApril 14, 2011

The Background… Throughout a financially turbulent 2009, the Supply Chain at Electrocomponents plc needed to better integrate into the business and become more intelligent, agile and effective. Just two years into our long-term ... Read More...

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The Perfect Forecast and the Cost of Error: Radio Shack's Experience

Jack HarwellApril 11, 2011

Forecasting & Planning Professionals strive to reduce error in their work. For all this effort, what is the reward? When asked what the cost of forecast error is, most discussions turn to the consequential impact of inaccurate forecasts. Con... Read More...

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There Were no Couches to Lie On, but Forecasting Therapy Was In Session

Constance KorolMarch 4, 2011

The IBF’s 10th annual Supply Chain Forecasting and Planning Conference turned out to be an incredible three days at the Villas of Grand Cypress Resort in Orlando, Florida. We kicked things off with a spectacular golf outing where we got to meet new... Read More...

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Engaging Your Business Users on the Value of Forecasting in Order to Maintain a World Class Supply Chain

Adam CoyFebruary 18, 2011

I suffer from a recurring dream. In that dream, I am standing in front of 300 Stock Controllers explaining how an external baseline will work alongside causal forecasting. The results of this will generate a Simple Exponential Smoothing forecast wh... Read More...

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Strength In Numbers.

Maria SimosDecember 8, 2010

Last night while I was at the joint APICS/IBF/CSCMP Holiday Networking Collaborative in Boston, MA these three words came to mind, “Strength in numbers.” But before I can explain these three simple words, I should first explain all the abbreviatio... Read More...

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S&OP or Supercalifragilistic- expialidocious… Something Quite Atrocious?

Maria SimosNovember 2, 2010

This is a good question. As I traveled down to Florida for the IBF’s Supply Chain Planning & Forecasting: Best Practices Conference w/ Advanced Practices in S&OP Forum I wasn't sure which was harder to explain as a concept. After a few day... Read More...

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The Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) Journey Continues at IBF

Anish JainDecember 18, 2009

Last week, I attended IBF’s Executive S&OP workshop with Tom Wallace and companies such as LG, Celegene, Integra Life Sciences, UGG Boots, and more. Some folks flew in to New Jersey from beautiful Southern California just for the S&OP edu... Read More...

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GOOD STUFF in Chicago, The Business Case for S&OP

Tom WallaceJuly 23, 2009

No I’m not talking about the Chicago Cubs or deep dish pizza. Rather, I’m talking about our third Best of the Best S&OP Conference, co-sponsored by APICS and IBF last month. It was quite a success with a very nice turnout, particularly when on... Read More...

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