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Seldom do we get the opportunity to compare 2 opposing views in as timely a fashion as the opportunity provided by the First Thing Monday blog by Kevin O’Marah (Group Vice President of Supply Chain Research for Gartner) titled “ Sales and Operations …
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A few weeks ago I wrote a blog titled “S&OP needs to evolve – I’m frustrated with traditional thinking!” in which I questioned a description of S&OP that is as much as 30 years old. Just to reiterate, I agree that much of the difficulty of implementing …
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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 Rapid …
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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 – …
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I have not witnessed anything that has created as much buzz in the computing community as the goings on between Oracle and Hewlett-Packard over the past few weeks. Well, perhaps Steve Jobs' health and discussion about succession at Apple, but that was …
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I, along with Bob Ferrari and Lora Cecere and about 300 other people, attended the IE Groups conference on S&OP and FP&A in Boston last week. Bob has commented on the conference, to which Lora replied. I’ll come back to their comments later. What struck …
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With the rise of the BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China – we hear so much about manufacturing outsourcing and off-shoring. Of course with wage increases in these countries, ever relatively cheaper manufacturing countries such as Vietnam are …
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For me one of the pleasures of being on vacation, as I was last week, is to read different newspapers and learn a bit about the local economy and politics. While not quite as “local” as I would have liked, I happened upon the Caribbean version of the …
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It is always a pleasure to read Bob Ferrari’s Supply Chain Matters blog. He addressed parts/component shortages, a topic that we are seeing across our customers in a recent post titled, “Parts Shortages Noted in the Mainstream Press- Are you actively …
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As many of you will know, the AMR Top 25 supply chain lists have been published since 2004. While undoubtedly improvements could be made in terms of geographical coverage, revenue coverage, industry coverage, and KPI’s used, all of which AMR is working …
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I think everyone within the supply chain space is well aware of the resurgence of interest in Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) over the last 5 years, particularly in the last 2 years. The question is what has caused this to happen? I believe the root …
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AMR (now Gartner) defined 4 stages of S&OP transformation: 1: Reacting, 2: Anticipating, 3: Collaborating, 4: Orchestrating. They report that many companies get stuck in stage 2 because it is stage 3 where they really need to go through an organizational …