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Setting Sail With Sales & Operations Planning – Part 2
In Part 1 of “Setting Sail with Sales & Operations Planning” I discussed the wide variety of reasons companies move toward a…
Setting Sail With Sales & Operations Planning – Part 1
A number of business challenges are driving more and more companies to formally embrace Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). While the benefits…
Determining the ROI of Forecasting Systems
Estimating the Return-On-Investment (ROI) for a new demand forecasting system can be difficult and requires an appreciation of the downstream impacts of more…
Forecasting Information Hub Drives Supply Chain Efficiency
From a manufacturer’s perspective, the effectiveness of relationships with suppliers usually nets out to be a function of price, availability and dependability…
Supply Chain Performance is closer to the bottom line than you think
Managing the Supply Chain dynamics that exist in many companies is not just about improving operational efficiency. When we look below the…
Supply Chain Metrics: Just How Important Are They?
The value of Supply Chain metrics depends on your Supply Chain objectives and how they support your business strategy….
3 Business Intelligence Myths
With everyone jumping on the Big Data bandwagon, business intelligence software is needed now more than ever to help make sense of…
Manufacturing Metrics that Matter Most
In today’s manufacturing enterprise, executives and line of business managers are constantly bombarded with information, making it difficult to weed through it…
Demand Forecasting Should Be a Core Competency
For many US manufacturers, the business landscape has changed dramatically over the past several years. Not only have we endured a downturn…
Understanding Your Suppliers with Business Analytics
Recent studies show that the ability to produce hard cost savings that impact the bottom line is now the primary focus of…