A big thanks to 142 participants from 31 countries. You can download my interpretation of the results here: SCT_S&OP pulse check II 2011 v03 . As this is an open source S&OP project you can download the raw survey data here to create your own interpretation: S&OP pulse check 2011 raw survey data . Find the S&OP pulse check 2012 here: https://supplychaintrends.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/sop-pulse-check-2012/ Continue reading S&OP pulse check 2011
In Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code, symbologist Robert Langdon is chasing complex puzzles and cryptic messages to unlock the code to one of the biggest prices of mankind; the holy grail. Regularly he finds himself wondering what the next step should be to make progress in his quest. In this context, the IE group S&OP summit; ‘Cracking The Code of S&OP’ has an … Continue reading Cracking the code of S&OP
As globalization is pushing companies to plan and operate more and more across the borders of their country of origin. This will have an impact on IBP processes as well. In my previous blog; https://supplychaintrends.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/the-impact-of-company-culture-on-ibp-part-iv-geography-1/ , I explored three examples on the impact of cultural preferences on cross cultural Integrated Business Planning (IBP). I used as reference the pioneering work on geographical cultural environments ‘Cultures Consequences’, … Continue reading The impact of company culture on IBP part V: Geography 2
Last week I wrote a blog on Demand Poetry… well actually more on the need to use demand assumptions in the forecasting process. You can read it here: https://supplychaintrends.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/forecasting-poetry/. That made me think about the use of demand assumptions and other types of demand terminologies used in day to day forecasting and planning jargon. I made a 3 question survey to get some insight in terminologies … Continue reading Demand Terminologies
The variables in demand forecasting are endless. We have advanced planning systems to manage many of them and processes like demand shaping, demand sensing, demand control, demand management or S&OP/IBP to influence or come to consensus forecast. There is research from Paul Goodwin, professor of Management Science at Bath University that suggests better not to touch system forecast at all, if changes to the forecast … Continue reading Forecasting Poetry
There are many discussions on what S&OP and IBP is. Lately, there are even more discussion on the difference between S&OP and IBP. Check out http://ibpnews.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/the-difference-between-sop-and-ibp/ for 7 different blogs on this topic only. But did any of these bloggers ask the simple existential IBP question; what is the purpose of IBP? If you, confronted with this question, jump up and start talking about improved … Continue reading The Purpose of Integrated Business Planning
In a recent online article on S&OP at Sony, http://www.supplychainquarterly.com/topics/Strategy/scq201101sony/, Vice president of Supply Chain Operations Yuka Yu uses the term ‘trusted chain’ rather then supply chain. According to Yu, this term emphasizes that the strong relationships between Sony and its partners depends on mutual trust and communication. As many of us will know, implementing CPFR and S&OP like Sony did, requires internal and external … Continue reading The Trusted Chain
One of the hot trends in supply chain these days is the use of social media. As this blog is called supply chain trend, I had to give this trend some thought. Without a lot of research and more or less from top of mind, here is my take on what social media can bring to supply chain. Let me know what you think. Responsiveness: … Continue reading Social media in the Supply Chain
In his classic satire Candide, Voltaire makes fun of positivism which was an influence philosophical movement in his time. Positivists see the world we live in as ‘the best of all possible worlds’. In an entertaining and funny way, Voltaire makes sure to the reader that we can question and challenge this statement from different angles. This was 250 years ago. Today S&OP and IBP … Continue reading IBP; the best of all possible worlds
This blog is inspired by a tweet last week from @CEOatSteelwedge. The tweet had a link to a blog from editor in chief from Supply Chain digest, Dan Gilmore. His blog was about rebuilding supply chains for the future. He refers to the ‘the smart folks at McKinsey’, which came up with a way to segment supply chains based on demand volatility and demand volume. … Continue reading Supply chain segmentation
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