Supply Chain and Sales and Operations Planning Software

February 22, 2018

How to Make Planning and Execution Work Together

Imagine for a moment that you’re on a flight from London to New York. You probably take It for granted that someone has charted...

Tags: Advanced Analytics , Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE)

February 20, 2018

What's So Modern About Modern Manufacturing?

If you had walked onto a factory floor during the second or third industrial revolution, it would have been immediately obvious...

Tags: End-to-End (E2E) Visibility , Lean Manufacturing

January 23, 2018

What Does Integrated Planning Really Mean?

Imagine you’re playing musical chairs. The music starts and stops and your instinct is to rush to the nearest seat before your...

Tags: Advanced Analytics , Postmodern ERP

August 15, 2017

On Integrating S&OP and S&OE

Understanding the relationship between S&OP and S&OE is akin to the novel versus the short story. With the novel, an author more...

Tags: Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) , Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

May 16, 2017

The Long Game vs. The Short: Integrating S&OE and S&OP

To understand where S&OE (sales and operations execution) and S&OP (sales and operations planning) differ, let’s think about the...

Tags: Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) , Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

April 6, 2017

How S&OE Reduces Supply Chain Costs

Today’s global manufacturing supply chain is rapidly evolving and maturing thanks in large part to globalization and the...

Tags: Lean Manufacturing , Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE)

March 21, 2017

How S&OE Enhances Supply Chain Management

It was the Scottish poet Robert Burns who said it best: “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” This sentiment is...

Tags: Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) , Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

March 9, 2017

How to Make Your Supply Chain a Vehicle for Growth

For companies in the automotive industry, growth in large part depends on the success or failure of your supply chain. In a...

Tags: Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) , Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

February 23, 2017

Back to Basics: The Importance of S&OP

With so much of the conversation in global supply chain management surrounding technological advancements and the digital...

Tags: Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) , Supply Chain Management

February 14, 2017

Is It Time for S&OE to Move Beyond Descriptive and Diagnostic Analytics?

How can organizations get the most out of their Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) efforts? By establishing a separate Sales...

Tags: Advanced Analytics , Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE)

February 9, 2017

Breaking Down Planning Silos In the Automotive Supply Chain

It’s the dead of winter and you wake in the morning to find your car windshield completely covered in a thick layer of ice. You...

Tags: Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) , Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

January 12, 2017

Why Your Business Should Plan for Global Deployment

The role of international trade and investment has grown steadily since World War II. Yet we think of globalization as a...

Tags: Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) , Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

November 22, 2016

Is Developing an S&OE Protocol Worth the Investment?

The manufacturing industry has been evolving rapidly thanks to globalization and technological advances. Global supply chain...

Tags: Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) , Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

November 8, 2016

S&OP and S&OE: A Symbiotic Relationship

Logistics planning today is just like firefighting: planners need to constantly identify and put out fires that pop up throughout...

Tags: Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) , Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

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November 3, 2016

Three Key S&OE Trends for 2017

The manufacturing industry is changing: with the advent of Industry 4.0, an isolated supply chain is no longer sufficient for...

Tags: Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) , Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

April 21, 2016

Integrated Business Planning: The Future of S&OP?

In part one of our series on sales and operations planning, we looked at traditional S&OP models and solutions and discussed the...

Tags: Demand Capacity Planning , Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

April 19, 2016

The Importance of S&OP: A Review

It wasn’t too far in the past when S&OP (sales and operations planning) processes and software were not the fulcrum of discussion...

Tags: Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

March 4, 2016

Shay Sidner named ‘Pro to Know’ by Supply & Demand Chain Executive

flexis North America, Inc. Director of Operations Shay Sidner was recognized February 24 as a “Pro to Know” by the demand and...

Tags: Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) , Supply Chain Management

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) (4)

How to Make Planning and Execution Work Together

What's So Modern About Modern Manufacturing?

What Does Integrated Planning Really Mean?

On Integrating S&OP and S&OE

The Long Game vs. The Short: Integrating S&OE and S&OP

How S&OE Reduces Supply Chain Costs

How S&OE Enhances Supply Chain Management

How to Make Your Supply Chain a Vehicle for Growth

Back to Basics: The Importance of S&OP

Is It Time for S&OE to Move Beyond Descriptive and Diagnostic Analytics?

Breaking Down Planning Silos In the Automotive Supply Chain

Why Your Business Should Plan for Global Deployment

Is Developing an S&OE Protocol Worth the Investment?

S&OP and S&OE: A Symbiotic Relationship

Three Key S&OE Trends for 2017

Integrated Business Planning: The Future of S&OP?

The Importance of S&OP: A Review

Shay Sidner named ‘Pro to Know’ by Supply & Demand Chain Executive

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