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
Hi all, find here my article that was published in the 2012 fall edition of the Journal of Business forecasting. Choose a rainy day to read it as it is pretty long! Enjoy and I’m interested in your thoughts and feedback Global S&OP Leadership, Change, Behavior and cross-cultural differences cheers, Niels Continue reading Global S&OP, leadership, behaviours & culture
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
It has been a while that I wrote a blog. I’ve not read a lot of interesting articles, blogs or tweets on supply chain to get any inspiration. It seems more of the same. Usually when I go for a run or take the bicycle along the bay of Melbourne to work I think about topics to write. Lately I’ve been using that time to … Continue reading Supply Chain and S&OP left brainers
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
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
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!
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?
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
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
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