Monthly Archives: March, 2014
Value Chain Planning with ERP
Value Proposition of Planning Tools Rigorous planning of the value chain and using the right systems will have a positive effect on the total supply chain costs and on the operational processes. Customer service levels will rise and with the right systems, companies can utilize best practices offered by software vendors. This will lead to …
IT and Software Capabilities for Supply Chains and S&OP
Running a Lean Supply Chain In response to shrinking margins, products becoming price driven commodities, higher quality requirements and customized services manufacturers have to take actions to maintain profitable. A very promising approach is to run lean manufacturing operations, which means removing inefficiencies and unnecessary steps from the value chain. Efforts need to go beyond …
Addressing Pain Points and Leveraging S&OP Efforts
Current Pain Points Changes in the marketplace and economical developments force companies to adjust their operations and go through change. Common pressure stems e.g. from eroding margins, rising labor or material costs, global competitors and their actions, shifting customer demands or simply the stages in product life cycles, so an evolution is necessary to sustain …
S&OP – Sales and Operations Planning – Motivation and Definition
The Motivation of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) Making predictions regarding the future development of a business and forecasting supply and demand in organizations accurately is rather impossible. A rigorous S&OP process is the foundation to strategically and tactically plan and direct a business. As in all business processes, the overarching goal of the process …
Global Supply Chain Management 
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