I recently watched a TED talk video by Alison Ledgerwood on YouTube. In the video, Alison gives the example of her...

In preparation for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit, Lora Cecere spoke with Bram Desmet, Managing Director of Arkieva’s Channel...

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is typically a monthly process. Through a series of detailed planning steps, and usually three...

Key Point: A Sales and Operation Planning (S&OP) meeting is a meeting to design the future course of a business....

Key Point: Coefficient of Variation is not a perfect measure of forecastability. However, if used properly, it can add value...

In the simplest inventory situation, the only variability is in the quantity of demand for a single day.  There is...

OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) has been growing in popularity due to the increase in data volumes and the recognition of the business value of analytics. OLAP capabilities provide endless options to support visibility in supply chain.Read this blog post if you have large data sets and are using or thinking of using OLAP tools to analyze this data.

From my observations, movement of material through a company’s supply chain is increasingly becoming a major portion of delivered costs....

A few weeks ago, I talked about the Supply Chain of Belgian Beer (click here to read that) and shared...

Most folks involved in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) for supply chain management have heard the terms “optimization” or “linear...

Research shows that a majority of mergers fail. A recent study put the percentage as high as 83%. As one...

As more and more data becomes available, more and more algorithms are being developed to analyze it. We see this...