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Einstein is famously quoted as saying, “If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in …
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The second day of Kinexions ’20 was packed with information on preparing organizations for the future. From managing risk and developing agility to merging the powers of both human resources and AI, leading experts shared valuable insights on how supply …
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On one of the world’s busiest trading routes, the Suez Canal, a 1,312-foot long freight container ship was wedged in, blocking itself and all marine traffic for six days. The route is crucial to global supply as it connects Asia with Europe before …
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One of the most important drivers of revenue in retail are replenishable products, such as drinks and personal hygiene products. Their importance can be explained and summarized succinctly with this quote: Toilet paper isn’t glamorous but it ships by the …
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OTTAWA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kinaxis ® (TSX:KXS), the authority in driving agility for fast, confident decision-making in an unpredictable world, today announced that it has scheduled its conference call to discuss the financial results for its …
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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 …
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Last week I attended the IBF Business Planning, Forecasting & S&OP : Best Practices Conference in Orlando, Florida. If you’re involved in your company’s sales & operations planning processes and you haven’t heard of the IBF, stop reading now and go check …
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I came across an interesting post today at SearchManufacturingERP that talked about how to pick a tool to support your S&OP processes. They raised a number of good points that I thought were worth going a bit deeper on. The first point they make is that …
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In my last post , I presented some problems with traditional S&OP systems. I then pondered what if you could... Create a new demand plan (or several) and instantly see how this new plan would impact your supply chain down to the smallest component? Drive …
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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 …
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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? …