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You Need Sales & Operations Planning for Alignment and Agility
S&OP has never been more important or more confusing. For the supply chain leader, it is growing in importance and is on the top of the list for a 2014 focus. However, the market for technology solutions is confusing. We count more than thirty-five solution providers claiming to provide S&OP solutions with a range of capabilities. Here we share insights on why it matters. - Lora Cecere, CEO and Founder, Supply Chain Insights
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How S&OP Is Like Your Golf Swing
Analyst Insight: The critical value-add of a manufacturing supply chain comes from constantly asking, "Can we make what we sell and sell what we make?" This is sales and operations planning (S&OP): a process of constant vigilance to meet customer commitments, while optimizing scarce working capital. Supply-chain optimization efforts can benefit from approaching projects as a hybrid of S&OP and supply chain. This places the focus on value creation over functional excellence. - Jon Kirkegaard, President, DCRA Inc.
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Software-powered Series of New Production Systems Could Boost U.S. Manufacturing
One can be hopeful about the future of manufacturing in the U.S. for a fundamental reason. It is the economy best positioned to seize on deeper changes that can lead to a real, sustainable manufacturing renaissance, one based on software technology and its profound effect on the entire manufacturing value chain.
Green Beer: Anheuser-Busch In-Bev Taps Into Sustainability
Anheuser-Busch InBev has laid out a five-year path to sustainability.
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What's Next for the Omnichannel Experience?
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AspenTech Releases Update of Manufacturing, Supply-Chain App
Aspen Technology, Inc. has released version 8.5 of its aspenONE Manufacturing and Supply Chain software.
IBM Deploys B2B Cloud-Based Network for India's Auto Industry
IBM has deployed a business-to-business, cloud-based network to support India's automotive industry.
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Aramex Debuts Cold Supply Chain Solutions
Aramex has launched a new cold supply chain service, available across all its MENA markets. Biocare, a solution for the healthcare sector, is designed to provide an end-to-end temperature-controlled delivery solution to move clinical specimens and medical samples domestically and globally for laboratories, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies.
Negotiating the Value of Flexibility
Analyst Insight: The sales and operations planning process has fairly deep roots in most companies. Research by SCM World shows that many have been able to extend the process across most internal functions. However, few companies have extended the process externally to trading partners. The incentive structure of buyers and sellers tends to set these groups at cross-purposes. Flexibility pricing can shift the incentives in a direction that forces companies to negotiate the value of flexibility. - Barry Blake, Vice President, Research, SCM World
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Facing the Titans: Build Your Offense to Compete with Amazon and Walmart
Analyst Insight: The titans of business, Amazon and Walmart, are doing an awesome job of growing their companies and transforming the way the marketplace functions. They're innovating supply chain operations and how they are responding to the needs of the customer. They're creating tremendous disruptions that are forcing everyone to play catch up. Lastly, they are on the offensive. They are creating benefits for their customers at such a rate that all other companies are playing at a disadvantage. - Jim Tompkins, CEO, Tompkins International
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The Supply Chain Side of Foreign Retailers Operating in India
Analyst Insight: The issue of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Indian retail has been in the headline news over the past few years. However, little media attention has been paid to the supply chain aspects of foreign retailers setting up shop in the country. The entrance of new foreign retailers into India will have a positive impact on domestic retail supply chains, bringing in global best practices, technological know-how and strengthening the position of local small suppliers. - Viktoria Sadlovska, Managing Director, Prameya Research, & Lead Author of the Pragmatic Value Chains Blog
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Retail Imports Expected to Rise in March as Retailers Begin Stocking Up for Spring and Summer
Import volume at the nation's major retail container ports is expected to increase 12.4 percent in March as retailers begin to stock up for the spring and the summer season, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.
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