Tags: Sales and Operations Planning

We are excited to announce that we are rebranding Arkieva to fuel growth, strengthen our position in the market, and continue to be a recognized leader in the supply chain industry. Over the past few years, we have been relentlessly focused on solving the most complex planning challenges through simple, intuitive, end-to-end solutions leveraging our best-in-class data scientists, software developers, and supply chain optimization consultants.

These “key tools” balance a need for simple with a need to handle the complexity of SCM – following the IBM adage – complexity exists whether you ignore it or not, best not to ignore it.

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

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....

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...

In my last post, I wrote a little on the importance of extending participation in the sales and operations (S&OP)...

In my experience with several different companies, it is evident that companies make great decisions some of the time. Unfortunately,...

What-if scenario planning is an excellent technique that allows a planner to ask questions on the future. Given a working...

It was Sir Isaac Newton who told us that things not in motion will continue to be that way until...

Extending sales and operations collaboration requires a clear articulation of business rules and information transfers. As a result, knowing exactly...