Intelligence…Sometimes Artificial
When it comes to intelligence in decision making, it’s our differences in experiences and attitudes that make our businesses evolve in a diverse manner. There are often many ways to…
Planning Accuracy…Can You Get Too Much of a Good Thing?
Fulfilling the need for resilience to change in long–term planning while providing accuracy in short–term planning can improve business performance and reduce stress levels. Attempting to forecast the unforecastable is a tendency…
S&OP – 13 Years On, What Have We Learned and What Has Changed?
In December 2006, I published an article titled “S&OP or just good supply chain planning?” The article looked at what Sales and Operations Planning is, what it isn’t, and whether…
Digital Representation and our Obsession with Optimization
I’ve watched many times as customers experience the power of modeling and prescriptive analytics for the first time. It’s like they are opening a great gift. True mathematical optimization is…
Selecting new software for supply chain network design doesn’t have to be a hassle
When it comes to network design, you can’t just set it and forget it anymore. Today’s successful supply chain networks are adaptable. They react swiftly to changing business conditions and customer needs….
How often do supply chain leaders assess their network for improvements?
Part II in our series on assessing your network design’s maturity As we wrote in Part I of this series, we recently ran a quiz to help supply chain professionals benchmark their network design maturity….
What are supply chain professionals using to make network decisions?
Part I in our series on assessing your supply chain network’s maturity How does your supply chain network design compare to others? We recently created a quiz to help professionals answer this…
Modeling brewing capacity to drive cost savings at HEINEKEN
Heineken is one of the world’s best-known beers. But for HEINEKEN International, the famed lager is only one of its products. The company owns more than 165 breweries around the world. It…