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
A couple of weeks ago I caught up with Lora Cecere, a well-respected and knowledgeable supply chain analyst who was over in Melbourne for a conference. I tweeted a; ‘welcome to Melbourne’ to her and so it came that a couple of days later we had lunch together. I have a passion for creating and sharing (supply chain) knowledge so I respect what she is … Continue reading The power of social
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
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
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?
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?
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
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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