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This past week was the IE Group’s S&OP Innovation Summit at the beautiful venue of the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Kinaxis was well represented, especially with the wonderful keynote speech from Kathleen Geraghty from Celestica . Her keynote hit the main …
2월 3, 2015
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In talking with a number of companies, sales and operations planning seems to be the hot topic. Why is there a such focus today on changing the S&OP processes of yesterday? Much has changed since the early days of S&OP. It seems that overnight the …
6월 7, 2010
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Lead times for suppliers are getting longer, from weeks to months. Customer order delivery expectations are getting shorter, from weeks to days. Sound familiar? The gap between supplier lead times and customer delivery expectations continues to widen for …
10월 25, 2021
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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 …
11월 2, 2010
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“At least three months, but I cannot guarantee or confirm any date.” This was the response of the sales rep in the bicycle store I visited this morning when I asked him for the delivery time of the road race bike I wanted to buy. And I had already gotten …
7월 6, 2020
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I recently participated in an interview series on sales and operations planning (S&OP) with P.J. Jakovljevic from Technology Evaluations Centers (TEC). Similar to what we did with our own S&OP Expert Blog series (which PJ participated in), the Q&A really …
3월 15, 2011
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Ok, maybe not you personally, but your company should be doing S&OP . Sales and operations planning has been around since the 80s. Until recently, adoption has been slow, but steady. In the last 5-7 years, S&OP has started to become mainstream. Why? …
3월 9, 2010
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A posting in Supply Chain Digest from a while back poses a question as to where Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) might be going and do we need to move on to a more comprehensive concept called Integrated Business Planning (IBP)? The article references …
6월 30, 2011
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As Gartner Research Director Matthew Spooner noted in his recent presentation at the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference, advanced sales and operations planning (S&OP) is like a hotel. It’s “somewhere you visit, not somewhere you live.” What exactly …
6월 2, 2017
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As I was presenting at the European Supply Chain and Logistics Summit last week, the overriding memory I’ll take away was the number of people that were nodding and pointing at the screen when I talked about how unplanned supply chain events that occur …
6월 26, 2015
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In my previous blog post , I compared a pilot flying from New York to LA at night without any modern navigation systems or instruments, to supply chain teams trying to effectively manage their organizations without a proper S&OP process. Obviously, the …
9월 8, 2015
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In a previous post , I talked about the ineffectiveness of Excel, ERP, and legacy planning for S&OP . If those aren’t the right tools for the job, what is? I heard a colleague once give the following analogy: Imagine a pilot flying from New York to Los …
8월 31, 2015