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Archived Articles
- November 2010
- Infosys Supply Chain Management Blog
S&OP must be a closed loop process - volume to mix; executive to execution
Posted by Atul Chandra Pandey: Earlier this week, I was invited to post my thoughts on S&OP on Kinaxis' 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. It was a pleasure to join the company of supply chain thought leaders like Tom Wallace, Coco Crum, Lora Cecere, Andrew Reese, Bob Ferrari, Nari Viswanathan, Simon Ellis and share insights on a topic which is gaining rapid momentum in the supply chain arena today. My sincere appreciation for Kinaxis for initiating this series which in my opinion has resulted into an amazing collection of thought leadership on S&OP every supply chain practitioner would benefit from. - November 2010
- Enterprise Resilience Management Blog
Some Thoughts Concerning Sales & Operations Planning, Part 2
Like Cecere, Miles believes that S&OP has to be part of a real-time sense-and-respond supply if it going to succeed in 21st century business environment. The decision speed he thinks is required can only be obtained through technology. - November 2010
- Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Get Your Employees on the Social Media Bandwagon
Following are tips for small businesses looking to entice their employees to embrace the benefits of social media. - October 2010
- Supply Chain Matters
Kinaxis Kinexions Conference- Summary Impressions
The Kinaxis RapidResponse core industry verticals of high tech, aerospace and pharmaceutical are each individually moving at an incredibly rapid rate of external and internal business change and many of the customer presenters consistently reinforced these themes. RapidResponse is in my view, well positioned to be in the ‘sweet spot’ of supply chain capability needs in this ‘new normal’. - September 2010
- IndustryWeek
The Evolution of S&OP
What is most interesting is that the reasons for the renewed interest in S&OP are the very same reasons for needing to evolve S&OP. While the end objective of operational and financial alignment remains the same, in an environment of volatility and complexity, how you achieve that alignment (and maintain it) is very different from before. - July 2010
- SupplyChainBrain
100 Great Supply Chain Partners: Executives Reveal How Providers Play a Big Role in Their Success
In this special issue, we again celebrate those companies that have been nominated by their partners as someone deserving recognition because their product or service has been of great value to them. Full list found here. - June 2010
- Fast Company
The Definitive Case for B2B Social Media Marketing
While most B2B marketers are scratching the surface, Kirsten Watson and her team at Kinaxis are digging deep into the rich veins of social media and finding gold. - June 2010
- Telecom Engine
Major industry executives make Supply Chain their business
"The past breakthrough was: plan it better, become a better planner. The future breakthrough, I think, is going to be: respond to plan variants better," Sicard said. - June 2010
- CTV - TECH NOW
Social media in the Ottawa business sphere
You may know all the names now: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and so on have gained a lot of recognition. The public has latched on to them, and the business world is trying to figure them out. However Kinaxis of Ottawa has not only figured it out – it's paying some big benefits for them. - May 2010
- B2B Social Media Digest
Capture B2B Leads through Social Media and Brilliant Videos
Supply chain management company uses personality to charm prospects - May 2010
- Supply Chain Awards (by World Trade Group)
The Supply Chain Distinction Awards 2010 - Shortlist
Best Value Chain Solutions Provider (Shortlisted companies): Kinaxis, Partnership for Supply Chain Management,Terra Technologies with Procter & Gamble and Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics - May 2010
- Supply & Demand Chain Executive
When Your Only Constant Is Change, You Need to Bridge the Reality Gap
There has been a capabilities gap in supply chain management for quite some time...the economic climate simply served to exacerbate, accelerate and expose the problem...The traditional processes and tools in place today were never designed to absorb the degree of volatility companies are now facing. - April 2010
- Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Conference Preview: Aligning the Supply Chain for Innovation, Collaboration and Leadership
Featured speakers at the CSCO Summit also include Angel Mendez, senior vice president for customer value chain management at Cisco Systems, joined by John Sicard of Kinaxis. "Leading companies are focusing on cross-boundary collaboration with their trading partners," says Sicard, whose company provides an on-demand offering for integrated supply and demand planning, monitoring and collaborative response capabilities. "They don't look at managing their supply chains as something that happens in a black box." - April 2010
- SearchSAP.com
The changing face of supply chain visibility
"Visibility alone is a very difficult thing to justify -- it's just the starting point of being able to effect change," said Trevor Miles, director of industry application marketing for Kinaxis, which markets an on-demand software solution for supply chain visibility and sales and operations planning. "The fact that you have the information doesn't mean you've been able to make decisions based on that information. Once you've worked out what the information means and what to do about it, it's at that stage that value is delivered." - April 2010
- SearchSAP.com
Quick payback supply chain visibility projects
At BreconRidge, a contract manufacturer in the electronics industry, the visibility issue was more about inventory management and control, as well as visibility for revenue recognition. The company had difficulty getting a clear and accurate picture of inventory despite using existing tools like Excel and its SAP ERP system, according to Paul Smithson, BreconRidge's corporate planner. In 2007, the firm began using Kinaxis' RapidResponse on-demand supply chain management service... - April 2010
- BtoB
BtoB Social Media Awards 2010
Kinaxis carefully planned an integrated social media program that lived up to the hype. The company started a blog, built a community for supply chain management, participated in LinkedIn and used Twitter. All of this is working: Kinaxis said it has experienced a more than threefold increase in leads. In addition, registered community members, who numbered 1,615 in February, reached 2,223 in early April. - April 2010
- Ottawa Citizen
OCRI awards celebrate best in Ottawa technology
A total of 34 finalists will be vying for trophies in 11 categories at the 2010 OCRI Awards to be held at the Hilton Lac Leamy on Thursday. The ceremony, put on annually by the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI), honours the best technology talent that the Ottawa region has to offer. Technology Company of the Year finalists include: Kinaxis; DragonWave Inc.; and Pronexus Inc. - April 2010
- Supply & Demand Chain Executive
The Paradox of Supply Chain Risk
One approach to dealing with this kind of demand-side risk is not to focus on trying to forecast demand better, since history is a poor guide to the future in these circumstances, but rather on putting in place the capabilities necessary to sense the changes in demand as they occur and to respond to those changes in a timely manner, says Trevor Miles. Miles is director of industry and application marketing at Kinaxis, which offers on-demand supply chain applications for supply chain visibility, demand management, supply management, sales and operations planning (S&OP) and supply chain risk management. "You need to be able to have an early warning that a metric is going in the wrong direction, but this kind of visibility is about more than just getting information, it's about being able to do something with that information," says Miles, who has written and spoken extensively on supply chain risk. - April 2010
- Supply & Demand Chain Executive
2010 Pros to Know
Honoring supply chain leaders building competitive advantage in recession and recovery: Monique Rupert, Vice President, Professional Services, Kinaxis - February 2010
- Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI) News
2010 OCRI Awards Finalists Announced Today
The 2010 OCRI Technology Company of the Year Finalists are: Kinaxis, DragonWave and Pronexus - February 2010
- Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Positioning the Supply Chain for Recovery
The strategic role of the supply chain within the enterprise also is a theme in the closing address scheduled for the SCM World Live 2010 event presented by Professor Hau l. Lee, of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and John Sicard, with Kinaxis, and titled "Matching Supply and Demand with Sensisble Sense and Responsive Response." Sicard says that the topic of the presentation is crucial for supply chain executives today because more and more companies are recognizing that a responsive supply chain is becoming an imperative to compete in today's volatile marketplace. "It's a board room-level discussion. It's not a question of tactical managers and directors trying to be more responsive," he says. - January 2010
- SupplyChainDigest
Keeping the S&OP Heart Beat Going
For many, the sales and operations plan (S&OP) is the heartbeat of the company ….or at least it is supposed to be. Like the human heart, it must be fully functioning all the time. And if there’s an unexpected obstruction, it needs to be fixed fast. Finding out what went wrong after the fact is too late. - January 2010
- IndustryWeek
Viewpoint -- Suites are Sour... and I Am Not Alone
ERP suites are too complicated, too expensive and most importantly, they don't fulfill the real need. By Doug Colbeth, CEO, Kinaxis - January 2010
- Gerson Lehrman Group
Software Suites Still Not Meeting Business Needs
...These products were designed and developed piecemeal for departmental silos and functional parts of a business. Although vendors provide integrations across these parts in solution suites, they still don't meet the real needs and cause many project failures for customers. - January 2010
- The Connect Magazine
Risky Business: How to Protect Your Supply Chain…enterprises face external factors beyond their control that can easily disrupt the supply chain
In today's volatile environment, companies have never been more vulnerable given the increased risks to their supply chain. In response, more and more companies are looking to implement or augment their risk management strategies.
The growing awareness and importance of supply chain risk management can be attributed to several business trends:
- leaner supply chains — less inventory, saving money and avoiding liability, but when events happen, there is no buffer to recover
- global sourcing — limited visibility, difficult communication, lead times stretched
- higher customer expectations — consumers want instant gratification, supply chain slow downs result in lost customers
- complexity and interdependency of supply base — networks of contract manufacturers with materials flowing in all directions
- variability of demand, shorter product life cycles
- increasing commodity costs and tighter logistics capacity — harder and more expensive to ship goods
These trends have been further exacerbated by major events over the past several years — from increased regulation, to natural disasters, to the volatile economy — that have only magnified the risk of supply chain disruption.
Regardless of how well planned or well managed a company’s operations are, enterprises face external factors beyond their control that can easily disrupt the supply chain.
Companies with the most effective risk management strategies address both anticipated and unanticipated supply chain disruptions; they are able to assess the impact, evaluate the action alternatives, and most importantly, implement the most effective response as quickly as possible. Read More
- January 2010
- Supply Chain Matters
Kinaxis RapidResponse- Much More Than a Planning Application
What has always impressed me with RapidResponse are its broader capabilities and abilities to be much more than a supply chain planning application....Kinaxis has documented RapidResponse computational speed of 29 seconds to extract over seven million records across 32 SAP sites, whereas ERP planning runtime would have been in excess of 8 hours.
