Author: Niels

Niels has 25 years of experience in supply chain and business planning and enjoy writing a thing or two every now and then.
S&OP

Think beyond the spread sheet!

This blog was recently published in the FPA_March2013 newsletter A recently released white paper from the Association for Finance Professionals (AFP) shows that amongst other things, it is extremely important for finance professionals to have advanced excel skills and the ability to validate data. I couldn’t agree more. Advanced Excel knowledge is a must for every finance professional. Even in businesses with advanced IT environments and with … Continue reading Think beyond the spread sheet!

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Leadership, S&OP

Leading sustainable S&OP

Hi all, as promised in my December blog find my presentation on leading sustainable S&OP here! Sustainable S&OP can only be established when an S&OP culture is created. To create an S&OP culture, effective S&OP behaviours like discipline, common goals, trust, communication and collaboration need to become part of a company DNA. This presentation links some literature on this behaviour with results from my S&OP pulse … Continue reading Leading sustainable S&OP

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Leadership, S&OP

Global S&OP: Leadership, Change management, Behavior & Cross-Cultural Differences

It must be one of the longest article titles in the history of the Journal of Business Forecasting but I’m pleased that my article has finally been published. It is even the leading article, lucky me. The article is actually a combination of 4 blogs I wrote about 1.5 years ago on the impact of company culture on S&OP. You can find those here I first wrote … Continue reading Global S&OP: Leadership, Change management, Behavior & Cross-Cultural Differences

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Supply Chain

Unlocking the power of social

My last blog, the-power-of-social was a comment on Lora Cerere’s blog on social in the supply chain. In the comments Lora mentioned; ‘so though for an organization to listen. It’s just not in their DNA. What do you think that it takes to make this shift?’ The answer I believe is refreshingly simple; make it part of the company DNA! Or in other words, make … Continue reading Unlocking the power of social

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Supply Chain

A humble change lesson

If you have been following my blog for a while now, you might have picked up that I like the change management author Rick Maurer. He writes in a simplistic and humoristic way about the sometimes serious topic of change. I’ve used his 3 level resistance model from his book ‘Beyond the wall of resistance’ to map key stakeholders up to the most senior level … Continue reading A humble change lesson

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S&OP

Why Apple has to pay back Samsung a billion US$

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”, Isaac Newton famously said, talking down his own innovative thoughts on gravity. Einstein took Newton’s theory further to general relativity, but then he didn’t really believe in quantum mechanics. Fast forward to 2012 and only last months, the world discovered the Higgs boson -or God- particle. A particle that only existed … Continue reading Why Apple has to pay back Samsung a billion US$

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S&OP

S&OP and Collaboration

As media partner for the IE group, I didn’t need a lot more trigger to write a blog then the tag used for the October 2012 summit; ‘Advanced S&OP: Create True collaboration’. You can find my whitepaper on S&OP and collaboration here: SCT on S&OP and collaboration I’ve always been interested in collaborative processes like Collaborative Planning Forecasting & Replenishment (CPFR) and Sales and Operations … Continue reading S&OP and Collaboration

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