Category: Digital supply chain

decision intelligence, Digital supply chain, S&OP

A New Approach to IBP Decisions during Crises

PREVIEW Niels van Hove writes that the limitations of the traditional Integrated Business Planning process are severely magnified during periods of significant disruption, which to many of us seems like the new normal. He argues that the standard meeting-and-decision schedule cannot provide timely strategic responses to disruption, as clearly evidenced by organizational steps during COVID. Instead, Niels offers a new tack centered on an IBP decision … Continue reading A New Approach to IBP Decisions during Crises

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Digital supply chain, S&OP

The Future of xP&A and Supply Chain Planning – Part 2

Extended Planning & Analysis, xP&A, is the evolution of financial planning beyond the finance function. It requires planning highly integrated with other business functions, a transformation of analytics, and a business partner culture, which combined lead to the requirement for modern FP&A skills in the workforce. In two articles, based on the webinar “XP&A in action: Enhancing FP&A Agility with Supply Chain Planning”, I will discuss the future of xP&A and supply chain planning. This second article will … Continue reading The Future of xP&A and Supply Chain Planning – Part 2

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Digital supply chain, S&OP

The Future of xP&A and Supply Chain Planning – Part 1

Extended Planning & Analysis (xP&A), is the evolution of financial planning beyond the finance function. It requires planning that is highly integrated with other business functions, a transformation of analytics, and a business partner culture, which combined lead to the requirement for modern FP&A skills in the workforce. In two articles, based on the webinar “XP&A in action: Enhancing FP&A Agility with Supply Chain Planning”, I will discuss the future of xP&A and supply chain planning. This first article focuses on … Continue reading The Future of xP&A and Supply Chain Planning – Part 1

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decision intelligence, Digital supply chain

A Better Plan is not Necessarily a Better Decision

Some new language has been creeping in the planning vocabulary in the last year or two: planning & decision making. What used to be planning, or a planning system, is now sometimes referred to as planning & decision making. This is most likely influenced by the acknowledgement of a new category decision intelligence by Gartner, for which they provided a definition since 2022. I now … Continue reading A Better Plan is not Necessarily a Better Decision

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Digital supply chain

How to Close the Planning & Execution Automation Gap

There was a lot of interest and commentary on my last post on the Automating of Routine Collaborative Decisions in S&OE. So much that I decided to do a webinar with my colleguae Ruan Van Vuuren. Especially the below schematic got a lot of reactions. It shows for a large global beverage business, what decisions could be automated in the S&OE horizon. Although for every … Continue reading How to Close the Planning & Execution Automation Gap

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decision intelligence, Digital supply chain, S&OP

The Automation of Routine Collaborative Decisions in S&OE

The Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) cycle is a much-needed addition to your S&OP/IBP process. I used to implement it as ‘The Control Cycle’. Gartner came up with S&OE and Oliver Wight now calls it ITP (Integrated Tactical Planning). Whatever you call it, you better have it as a business if you want to react to short term disruptions Where your IBP process focuses on … Continue reading The Automation of Routine Collaborative Decisions in S&OE

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Digital supply chain

Why Data Sharing is Limited in a Competitive Environment

This is a commentary on the article To Share or Not to Share: The Future of Collaborative Forecasting, Foresight 2022, Q4, by Pierre Pinson, Editor in Chief of The International Journal of Forecasting. Asymmetry of Data Ownership In Pierre Pinson’s article “To Share or Not to Share: The Future of Collaborative Forecasting,” the comparison between data and big oil is striking. Just like oil, data … Continue reading Why Data Sharing is Limited in a Competitive Environment

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Digital supply chain, S&OP

Intelligent IBP – a new role for supply chain planners

Preview – Most IBP cycles around the world are based on a 20-year-old process definition supported by 20-year-old planning concepts. This traditional IBP is not set up for a fast-changing world, where speed of decision making confers a competitive advantage. Intelligent automation will change this. In this series of blogs, I will discuss the transition of traditional IBP towards a more intelligent IBP. Here, you … Continue reading Intelligent IBP – a new role for supply chain planners

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Digital supply chain, S&OP

Intelligent IBP – Closing the Decision Gaps

Preview – Most IBP cycles around the world are based on a 20-year-old process definition supported by 20-year-old planning concepts. This traditional IBP is not set up for a fast-changing world, where speed of decision making confers a competitive advantage. Intelligent automation will change this. In this series of short blogs, I will discuss the transition of traditional IBP towards a more intelligent IBP.  In … Continue reading Intelligent IBP – Closing the Decision Gaps

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Digital supply chain, Positive mindset, S&OP

Intelligent IBP – Unshackle the Planners!

Preview – Most IBP cycles around the world are based on a 20-year-old process definition supported by 20-year-old planning concepts. This traditional IBP is not set up for a fast-changing world, where speed of decision making confers a competitive advantage. Intelligent automation will change this. In this series of short blogs, I will discuss the transition of traditional IBP towards a more intelligent IBP. You … Continue reading Intelligent IBP – Unshackle the Planners!

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