It’s been a chaotic 6-8 months for most organizations. Everyone has been working ‘round the clock trying to keep the business going and addressing the aftershocks. Now is the time…
Insights from Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020 Supply chain professionals know it can be extremely challenging to drive day-to-day operational excellence and pursue innovation at the same time. Our recent survey showed…
Sales and Operations Planning has become the preferred method to facilitate clear and formal communication between the demand and supply sides of a business. However, one-third of SCP leaders cite “the lack of effective decision making in…
Integrated Business Planning (IBP), as defined by its creators at Oliver Wight, is “the business planning process that extends the principles of S&OP throughout the end-to-end supply chain, product, service…
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many risks and uncertainties in supply chain networks. Materials shortages, demand fluctuations and plant closures have led many organizations to revisit their supplier relationships, as well as distribution and production locations….
Supply chain data is critical to the planning function. Our recent Planning Maturity Assessment shows that 45% of organizations are satisfied with their data quality, to some degree. 31% a neither satisfied nor dissatisfied….
These are trying times for supply chain planners. The effects of COVID-19 are unlike anything we have seen in recent decades. Disruption abounds, and as Lora Cecere writes, “the only constant will be surprise.” Supply Chain Dive reports that 75% of firms…
Just like you, we’re taking the news day by day and continuously brainstorming ways to serve our community. The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound impact on our lives, the kind…
