Supply Chain and Sales and Operations Planning Software

May 24, 2022

5 Ways S&OP Can Support Retail Sales Planning

With the growing popularity of real time big data, new possibilities open up to companies to improve their overall operations....

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March 1, 2022

4 Ways S&OP can Support Your Sustainability Goals in 2022

Where meeting sustainability goals was once a choice, global regulations are now shifting to require companies to adapt their...

Tags: S&OE - Sales & Operations Execution , S&OP - Demand Capacity Planning

May 13, 2021

5 Critical Issues that can hamper your S&OE Process

Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE) is a highly beneficial process in optimizing how you strategize supply chains. This process...

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March 30, 2021

The Integrated S&OP and S&OE Process

What's the difference? Sales and Operation Planning (S&OP) is the process where all business planning comes together. This...

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January 21, 2021

Best Practices for Integrating S&OP

Most manufacturing outfits in the modern world already have some kind of S&OP—but sometimes it can feel like even your most...

Tags: Digitization , S&OE - Sales & Operations Execution

September 24, 2020

Is S&OP Still Important?

Every couple of years at least, someone asks the question: is S&OP dead? Usually, those questions are brought up because of some...

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September 15, 2020

Supply Chain Execution 101

In Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Execution Technologies, supply chain players can get a sense of how the transportation...

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June 10, 2020

5 Reasons to Adopt an S&OE Workflow in 2021

Sales and operations execution, or S&OE, is a little bit like flying an airplane. In the modern era, you already have a host of...

Tags: Industry 4.0 , S&OE - Sales & Operations Execution

May 5, 2020

How Can Manufacturers Avoid Supply Shortages?

A few years ago, more than three-quarters of manufacturers said that material shortages (specifically metals and minerals) were a...

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April 7, 2020

5 Pitfalls in S&OE Implementation

We’ve written on this blog before that sales and operations execution (S&OE) can be a game-changer in terms of keeping S&OP goals...

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March 26, 2020

5 Key Tactics for Improving Your Demand Forecasts

The two most basic concepts in business are supply and demand, but as they play out in something as complex as the modern...

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March 19, 2020

5 Keys to Managing Costs in the Automotive Supply Chain

Let’s say you’re a kid, and you’re trying to set up a lemonade stand in front of your parents’ house. You go to the store...

Tags: Automotive , S&OE - Sales & Operations Execution

January 30, 2020

S&OE in the Automotive Industry

The actual production of automobiles on the factory floor has been getting more efficient for decades. In the ‘80s, it would take...

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January 21, 2020

How Should Planners Measure S&OE Success?

Remember when you were in school? No matter the class, every term you got a syllabus for each class that laid out when exams,...

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December 31, 2019

How Industry 4.0 Will Improve Your Demand Forecasts

If you ever go to Las Vegas, you should be advised that casinos heavily frown upon card counting, and it’s easy to understand...

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December 19, 2019

Sales and Operations Execution 101

Raise your hand if you’ve heard the story of William James giving a lecture on the structure of the galaxy. After the lecture, an...

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August 13, 2019

5 Steps Toward Successful S&OP

Supply and demand are the first two concepts that most people learn about with regard to economics—and they’re also two of the...

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May 21, 2019

Can Smarter Order Planning Reduce Production Hiccups?

Ah, the old dilemma: make to order vs. make to stock. The debate has been raging in the world of manufacturing for many years. On...

Tags: S&OE - Sales & Operations Execution , Supply Chain Planning

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