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Eliminating silos from any company’s supply chain planning processes comes with challenges. And those challenges are only amplified the bigger your supply chain is. When you’re a large global pharmaceutical company operating in more than 100 markets …
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Inheriting an organization facing one of the toughest retail environments in history, Mike Duke helped Walmart, the world’s largest retailer and biggest private employer, navigate an intense period of economic, social, and technological change while …
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When it is annual review time, supply chain professionals can go on and on about all of the things that they’ve done in the past year because those of us in supply chain are often hyper-productive. It is when we are asked to explain exactly how what we …
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The phrase “supply chain” used to garner blank stares from most who did not work in the industry. Then 2020 came along and supply chain stepped into the spotlight as conversations about product hoarding , meat shortages and vaccine distribution became …
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There’s no such thing as 100% when it comes to forecast accuracy . Let me say it again. One hundred percent accuracy does not exist. I don’t care how good your demand sensing is or how sure your sales team is of their market projections. It’s just not …
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If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s to expect the unexpected. At the dawn of the new year, not many of us could have predicted the arrival of a global pandemic, let alone the devastating impact it would have on public health, the global economy and the …
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I came across this article by Colleen Crum, a principle with Oliver Wight Americas . In it, she outlines a compelling argument about how critical leadership involvement is to S&OP. I couldn’t agree more. Over the past few years, I’ve talked to many …
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I recently saw twitter post which linked to an article by Steve Banker at Logistics Viewpoints titled “ S&OP is not about Technology. Wrong!”. This position clearly aligns with my thinking about the place of technology in S&OP. There was once a time …
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I've been working on a presentation about the executive S&OP process that I'll be giving at our upcoming user conference. Working on this presentation has made me think about the many executive S&OP meetings I've observed and what factors contributed to …
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Sustainability may not be top of mind as businesses scramble to keep up with the volatile ebb and flow of supply and demand during the COVID-19 crisis, but supply chain leaders should be thinking about what’s next for maintaining sustainability and …
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In recent years, consumers have become more concerned with the environmental and social impact of their purchasing behavior. To address these concerns, firms are improving the sustainability of their supply chains, from plan, source, make, deliver and …
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I recently came upon an upsetting article on the NPR news blog that I thought I would share. Evidently beer consumption in Munich has been positively impacted by an unusually warm late summer and bottle and keg returns have been lower than normal. This …