The advent of the latest recession and slow recovery has led many companies to realize the benefits, nay, the necessity, of integrating demand and supply planning across the enterprise. The benefits of increased response to demand fluctuations, reduced inventory without adverse effects on service levels, and the resulting increased profit margins, ...
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3 tips for mitigating master data issues in integrated demand and supply planning
Welcome to the S&OP Experts Blog Series. This series features a weekly Q&A with an industry thought leader on sales and operations planning trends and strategies. Follow-up 'question and answer'; sessions are hosted in the S&OP section of the Supply Chain Expert Community. Registered community members may submit their questions for the ...
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Nari Viswanathan:S&OP is no longer a supply chain driven process
Kinexions 2010 is now complete – and what a success it was. The general presentations in particular were very valuable and well received. Without a doubt the central theme to the customer presentations at Kinexions was how companies are using RapidResponse to manage increasing demand volatility, largely driven by product proliferation and market ...
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What did our customers have to say? Kinexions 2010
Welcome to the S&OP Experts Blog Series. This series features a weekly Q&A with an industry thought leader on sales and operations planning trends and strategies. Follow-up 'question and answer'; sessions are hosted in the S&OP section of the Supply Chain Expert Community. Registered community members may submit their questions for the ...
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Bob Ferrari: Process inertia and organizational thinking can derail the progress of an S&OP initiative
Much has changed in the business environment, let alone the technology environment, since the origins of the term S&OP by Oliver Wight nearly 30 years ago. From a business environment perspective we have only to look at the rise of the BRIC countries – Brazil Russia, China and India - let alone the rest of [...]
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S&OP needs to evolve - I';m frustrated with traditional thinking!
