Supply chain management executives are tasked with many decisions every day, stemming from operational snafus, unplanned changes in supply or demand, or tactical decisions related to deployment of materials and resources. This includes the ongoing participation and decision-making involved in the company’s sales and operations planning (S&OP) ... (Read More)
I came across an interesting post today at SearchManufacturingERP that talked about how to pick a tool to support your S&OP processes. They raised a number of good points that I thought were worth going a bit deeper on. The first point they make is that for most companies, Excel is not a viable S&OP tool. Anyone [...] (Read More)
A short Friday post to let you know that Kinaxis will be attending the Sales & Operations Planning Innovation Summit on January 26 & 27, 2012 at the Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas. Aamer Rehman, vice president, manufacturing solutions here at Kinaxis, serves as the conference chairperson for Day 1 of the event, on January 26. As [...] (Read More)
A short Friday post today to let you know the webcast, "Orchestrating Success in Sales and Operations Planning by Driving Cross-functional Collaboration with RapidResponse Control Tower" is now available on-demand. Here's the webcast abstract: To rise above the competition today, companies need to better understand the impact their planning and ... (Read More)
Over the holidays there were the typical discussions about New Year's resolutions. What are you going to give up? What are you going to start doing? What are you going to do differently? This is always enjoyable conversation as there is always a ton of material to poke fun at. As everyone vows to eat [...] (Read More)
Back in 1981, I was hired as an Inventory Control Analyst (Construction Supplies Scheduler) by the largest public utility supplying electric and natural gas to Arizona located in Phoenix. My initial duties involved the scheduling of all of the electrical transformers and natural gas supplies necessary for repair and new construction the utility ... (Read More)
I'm not talking about the smoke and mirrors of a Las Vegas act. I'm talking about real magic where parts and materials suddenly appear at the right quantity, the right place and at the right time. I'm talking about the two-bin system, reorder points and statistical forecast models. It has been said that Henry Ford used [...] (Read More)
To create and sustain change, the discussion has revolved around people, process and technology (software in this case) since the beginning of the information age. What is interesting about this discussion is that almost of the focus and discussion surrounds the process and the software, or at best, talks about each of these as equally [...] (Read More)
I presented a couple of sales and operations planning (S&OP) workshops at our Kinexions user conference this week. One of my sessions focused on how the ability to "connect" supply and demand planning in S&OP can result in faster and more accurate S&OP planning cycles. Let's think about the traditional S&OP world. Most companies ... (Read More)
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