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…
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…
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…
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….
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….
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…
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…
Tata Steel is one of the world’s largest steel producers. In fact, it’s very likely that Tata Steel plays a role in your life today, by providing raw material for…
