Recently I have been thinking about how the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process fits in with the other planning processes within an organisation. A lot is written about the S&OP process and its ...

More companies are undergoing Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) transformations today due to increased understanding of their value, as well as increased capability of new forecasting technologies ...

As supply chain and operations leaders work to return to “normal” patterns of demand fulfillment, it’s clear that absolutely nothing is business as usual. No company progressed through late Q1 and Q2 ...

Dr. Cyrus Hadavi is the CEO of Adexa, a leading AI-powered supply chain planning company with Fortune class clients in five continents. Many, if not most, companies implementing S&OP (sales and ...

I’ve always thought the delivery performance metric best reflects how well integrated the various functions are and how interdependent they all are if we expect to consistently perform at a high level ...

S&OP, the process used to match supply and demand and align business strategy, consistently ranks as a top priority for management teams. But companies often spend three to five years to reach ...

Our recent and ongoing global crisis has affected nearly every business on the planet in a negative way, and the speed of change in our value chains has caught many unprepared. Unprecedented ...

Editor’s Note: The SCM thesis Developing a Dynamic S&OP Process for Third-Party Logistics was authored by Richard A. Elmquist and Luis Dávila and supervised by Dr. Ilya Jackson ([email protected]) and ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY James Barlow Just as the ...

As organizations grapple with ongoing economic uncertainty, many supply chain planning (SCP) leaders will face organizational resource constraints and competing business priorities. As leaders ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. – Army Materiel Command’s sales and operations planning process, recently recognized for maintaining high industry standards, is enabling senior leaders to manage 24-month ...

In particular, tariffs and related trade fights can inject extreme uncertainty, complexity, and volatility into already fragile supply chain networks, with impacts extending well into the future. In ...