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$

NielsAugust 30, 2012March 4, 2013Leave a comment

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

NielsJuly 6, 2012October 10, 2015Leave a comment

S&OP

S&OP pulse check 2012

Hi there, my interpretation of the results of the third yearly S&OP pulse check is now available. A big thanks to 55 participants from 19 countries who took the effort to create insight. I will further use the insight from the 2012 S&OP pulse in combination with my article on S&OP that will be published in the Journal of Business Forecasting to create a document on … Continue reading S&OP pulse check 2012

NielsJune 25, 2012October 10, 20152 Comments

Leadership, S&OP

S&OP leaders, we just don’t get it!

Here we go again. Almost one and a half years after I wrote a blog saying that the difference between S&OP and IBP is an illusion, a hefty discussion on this topic started again on LinkedIn. This time it is getting a bit more dirty and personal, which seems to be driven from a deep down frustration and a drive to be right on an … Continue reading S&OP leaders, we just don’t get it!

NielsJune 1, 2012October 10, 2015Leave a comment

S&OP

Where is the S&OP visionary?

About 10 years ago I was working as Accenture consultant in Europe on an implementation of common data and processes for Sara Lee. This project was implementing ERP and APS systems across 15 operations companies in 10 countries and must have roughly cost a 100 million Euro. Through a vendor selection model it was decided to use SAP R/3 and the then little mature APO … Continue reading Where is the S&OP visionary?

NielsApril 26, 2012May 6, 20232 Comments

Supply Chain

Is your supply chain in flow?

Proposed by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi in the positive psychology, ‘Flow’ is the mental state in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. According to Csikszentmihalyi, flow is completely focused motivation. It is a single-minded immersion and represents perhaps the ultimate in harnessing the emotions in the service of performing and learning. In flow, the emotions are … Continue reading Is your supply chain in flow?

NielsApril 1, 20124 Comments

Supply Chain

Demand driven & agile supply chains

The last couple of weeks I read it several times. ‘Supply chains must be demand driven’, or ‘you have to be agile to survive in today’s global competitive environment’, ‘you’re agile or you’re dead!’. Some S&OP models suggest that being demand driven is the highest form of maturity. This seems mostly advocated by AMR Research and Gartner. Before you think otherwise, let me tell you that I … Continue reading Demand driven & agile supply chains

NielsMarch 17, 2012October 19, 20155 Comments

S&OP

My published IBP article

My article ‘The four phases of IBP’ , is published in the AFP Exchange, an American financial magazine. If you followed my blog, you’ve already read it and can actually check the editorial mistakes. I saw a couple 🙂 Check it out here: 4 of a kind – The four phases of IBP There is an other article to come soon I hope. Thanks for following me and … Continue reading My published IBP article

NielsMarch 8, 2012October 10, 2015Leave a comment

S&OP

Yet another S&OP expert

There is a lot of garbage on any topic on the internet, so we can’t be surprised if we find some S&OP garbage floating around. Sometimes though, it can come from somewhere you wouldn’t expect. In this case it came from a Professor Operations Planning & Control on a pretty respectable site, which I follow regularly. I write this because I care about the topic. … Continue reading Yet another S&OP expert

NielsMarch 7, 2012October 10, 20154 Comments

Supply Chain Trend

Advancing decision making in the Supply Chain

Why Apple has to pay back Samsung a billion US$

S&OP and Collaboration

S&OP pulse check 2012

S&OP leaders, we just don’t get it!

Where is the S&OP visionary?

Is your supply chain in flow?

Demand driven & agile supply chains

My published IBP article

Yet another S&OP expert