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Shortening the Planning Cycle - Supply Chain Leader Shortening the Planning Cycle --- New tools allow companies to plan at the speed of business. The fundamental purpose of planning is to anticipate future needs, identify challenges and develop a course of action for accomplishing an objective.While the purpose remains the same in today's ... previous-generation planning capabilities Considerable time and manual effort is spent on supply chain data management, plan extraction, plan aggregation and personalization of reports for decision making. This leaves little time for analysis and decision making between planning cycles and can lead ... functions. The planning systems in place at most companies today leave IT organizations unable to respond to the changes required to support innovations in business processes. They are challenged with maintaining multiple systems for plan input data, plan output data, plan archives and reports and ... |
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7 Principles of Supply Chain Agility - Supply Chain Leader ... companies, most plans are "dead on arrival": they're out of sync with demand conditions, or violate supply constraints. Agile companies implement closed-loop plan management principles that involve rapid formulation of a realistic synchronized plan and continuous monitoring of plan execution. In ... on making the plan happen. Every area commits to its own sub-plan and provides early warning if deviations occur, enabling corrective actions that are rapidly executed and coordinated. In this way, the plan is globally optimized, and plan management becomes a local focus. Plan execution is rarely a ... generating a plan is unidirectional, starting with a financial plan and followed by a sales plan, an inventory plan and a supply plan, and so on. The process is constraint-insensitive and slow. By the time the plan is generated, too many things have changed. Agile companies have the ability to use ... |
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Managing Supply Chain Disruption with Continuous Design - Supply Chain Leader ... companies must have strong planning processes that are capable of providing synchronized operational and financial plans and are backed by tight organizational alignment. One way to achieve this is through sales and operations planning (S&OP), a corporate planning process used to generate a ... and effort collecting and aggregating data and less in planning or making decisions. Plan inputs typically reside in multiple sources and formats, challenging unified, timely visibility and rapid synchronization of plan adjustments. Poor quality and timing of information: Outdated, incomplete or ... plan on a regular basis. S&OM differs from S&OP by also focusing on plan achievement through the plan-do-check-act (PDCA) paradigm of closed-loop management. The "plan" and "do" phases encompass the traditional planning and execution processes of S&OP, as well as additional supply chain planning ... |
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Creating Greater Agility with Plan-Do-Check-Act - Supply Chain Leader ... you can develop optimized plans that use contingencies to guard against these risks. Inevitably variability causes execution to deviate from "plan" (P) during the "do" (D) step of the PDCA management cycle. This is where the "check" (C) step closes the loop to compare plans with actual execution and ... of process maturity have constraint-optimized plans across functions, their tools and processes have limited capability to make these plans happen. There might be a global planning process, but there is limited or ad-hoc monitoring of whether the plan is being met. Companies at the level of process ... to plan. If it appears that actual sales are not performing to plan, it searches for root causes of the variance. Maybe the company is selling beyond plan in one region and unable to keep shelves stocked there. And maybe it has excess inventory in other regions, where sales have been below plan. To ... |
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S&OP Best Practices Enable Consistent Profitability - Supply Chain Leader ... Profitability by Gaurang Pandya Originally focused on matching supply and demand, sales and operations planning (S&OP) now facilitates organizational alignment between business goals and plans, while enabling quick responses to continuously changing business conditions. As organizations are more ... business plan. It created a business leadership team, which tied the business plan to the quarterly financial plan, monitoring it on a monthly basis. Using rough cuts of data from supply chain management processes, the team reduced changes to the initial weekly scheduling and buy plans. The team ... data are collected. Adherence to the process is continually measured to map effectiveness. Synchronized planning models and cycles-- To achieve consistent profitability, plans and planning cycles must be linked among finance, sales, marketing, production, engineering and other functions in the ... |
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5 Keys to Success in Advanced Retail Planning - Supply Chain Leader ... sophisticated, demanddriven approach to planning. This approach can be found in the new generation of planning solutions. These solutions are designed to offer an integrated set of planning processes covering all aspects of merchandise financial planning, buying and assortment management, and ... planning will run into a number of stumbling blocks related to the three key areas of merchandise financial planning, buying and assortment management, and allocation and replenishment. For instance, as AMR Research notes in its 2005 report on Advanced Retail Planning (ARP), financial plans related ... guesswork rather than on detailed analytics on consumer demand. Also, current merchandise planning processes rarely scale to a level that supports key aspects of advanced planning, such as the ability to plan at the store level. Buying and assortment management presents another set of hurdles. Most ... |
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The Supply Chain Leader Virtual Roundtable:Sales and Operations Planning ... Planning Improving supply chain performance and reducing risk are top of mind as companies strive to balance supply and with increasingly volatile demand. In this Supply Chain Leader Virtual Roundtable, thought leaders discuss the evolution and future of sales and operations planning (S&OP). Aamer ... for many companies today, you can reach a consensus forecast and develop a supply plan to support it, but let someone else in the company figure out how to determine specific inventory levels to support those plans. That is changing. Many companies that have evolved their internal S&OP processes ... a true business planning process, with a clear integration of company financial performance into the plan. S&OP isn't just about aligning supply and demand. In the end, it has to be about using supply and demand to achieve the company's financial objectives, and developing plans that will get you ... |
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Proactive Planning for Demand Uncertainty ... manage—risk The good news is that range planning processes that overcome these obstacles are now available. They rely on three key capabilities: Range forecasts that quantify supply and demand uncertainty over the planning horizon Range plans that prepare for the variety of possible outcomes ... that quantifies the operational and financial performance and risk of range plans Range planning is focused on a simple idea: identify the set of things that could happen, and plan proactively so that you can perform as well as possible across any of these potential outcomes. We follow these same ... and sales may also be important. Range planning: Should we bring an umbrella? Or sunscreen? The role of range plans is to proactively plan for the future uncertainty captured by range forecasts. Range plans prepare the business by matching planning decisions to the level of confidence an ... |
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New Tools for a New Generation - Supply Chain Leader ... over the last 40 years through successive generations of process and technology advances, from material resource planning to enterprise resource planning to advanced planning systems. i2 believes we are on the threshold of a new generation of capability today. Just as with previous generations ... functional areas such as factory planning and transportation planning. The processes of the new generation extend supply chain management across functions, while building on functional systems and processes. An example of this is a sales and operations planning (S&OP) process (see article, page 27 ... of planning and execution Until now, supply chain planning and execution were separate. Manufacturing, supply and transportation plans were developed inside a company, and then it set about to execute against those plans. The necessary assumption was that execution would exactly follow the plan ... |
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Asian Paints enables growth through improved planning ... planning, materials and distribution planning, production scheduling, and change management. Asian Paints implemented key solutions from i2's advanced planning solutions to cover the processes from sales forecasting, master production planning, raw material planning, distribution planning and shop ... planning system to manage those crucial supplies. Given that raw materials comprise 60 percent of its value chain, Asian Paints constantly improvises its bill of materials, routings and alternate parts. This leads to a very complex alternate materials scenario during the procurement planning process ... manufacturing method for any given situation. Modern distribution planning enables Asian Paints to plan deployment on a weekly basis, and to quickly and easily adjust those distribution plans as needed. By adopting a robust approach to change management, the company can now adapt more nimbly to ... |
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Preparing for the Re-Emergence of Demand ... in order to continue to meet ever-shifting consumer needs. Replace "planning for execution" with "planning for discovery" Perhaps the most significant shift companies must make involves rethinking the purpose of their planning and forecasting activities. Businesses of all types should move away from ... plan possible—and instead recognize that real value and agility result from "planning for discovery." If the last two years have taught us anything, it's that even the best forecast is still only a forecast, and even the most well-defined supply chain plans will need to be adjusted as marketplace ... plan possible, because this merely results in reactive re-planning. While closed-loop planning for execution is more effective than simple open-loop planning, it is still limited because its only input is a periodic, one-dimensional demand performance review. The new proactive paradigm of "planning ... |
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Continental Tire Speeds Planning Cycles and Inventory Turns - Supply Chain Leader Continental Tire Speeds Planning Cycles and Inventory Turns Demand planning and inventory optimization maximize service and cut costs Continental Corporation is the fifth-largest automotive supplier in the world, with extensive know-how in tire and brake technology, vehicle dynamics control and ... for European master planning. The planning system prioritizes incoming orders and forecasts demand in "demand layers."Next, it creates a production and replenishment plan, accounting for supply chain and business rules unique to Continental. A new replenishment plan is created mid-week to respond to ... planning was done on a monthly basis and as a result, plans were outdated by the time they went into effect. "Since we implemented Supply Chain Planner, planning is done weekly and replenishment planning is done twice a week. Planning time was reduced by more than 90 percent, and the planning ... |
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Transportation Management: Getting Onboard with Collaborative Capacity Planning ... mode. Three levels of planning To overcome the significant challenges that inhibit the ability of shippers and carriers to optimize for capacity planning, they must improve collaborative processes.The most fundamental data necessary to drive a collaborative capacity planning process is historical ... month plans. At the tactical level, shippers and carriers can synchronize transportation planning with master planning cycles (in a manufacturing environment) or replenishment planning cycles (in a retail or distribution environment). The tactical transportation-capacity plan projects 1—13 weeks out ... projected demand volumes. Operational-level planning typically takes place 1—4 days out and is based on actual orders (whether they are inbound purchase orders, outbound customer orders or inter-facility stock transfers). The operational capacity plan communicates the actual tender, booking or ... |
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Meeting and Exceeding Customer Expectations at Teich AG - Supply Chain Leader ... request presented a significant planning and production challenge. Integrated approach To address those shortcomings, Teich AG set out to create a new, vertically integrated rolling-foil production capability. The company's planned 100 percent automatedfoil "Rolling Plant II"represented its ... utilization through improved material routing and capacity management Planning and scheduling synchronization Reduced deviations in planning, scheduling, inventory and costs Improved visibility and collaboration between planning and production Reduced manual-coordination requirements Expectations at ... following specific improvements from this integrated planning and production solution: Real-time, closed-loop production planning, scheduling and execution capabilities Automatic-loop, batch-execution adjustments for better scheduling and planning Faster internal order quotes Reduced production ... |
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Managing Supply Chain Disruption with Continuous Design - Supply Chain Leader ... long-term supply chain planning. Whether they are looking at a two-, three- or five-year horizon, most executives can tell you what they expect their supply chains to look like in the future. They have top-level financial goals, as well as detailed plans for constructing new facilities, broadening ... carefully planned acts of terrorism—how can the typical company expect to consider, and plan for, every possible disaster? The answer lies in a company's basic philosophy of supply chain design. Instead of viewing design as a one-time event, or an annual planning exercise, today's planning leaders ... their long-term supply chain plan as a starting point—then begin to ask themselves what they would do if various contingencies occur. They need to consider the impact of a number of threats on various critical components of the supply chain, including: Sourcing plans, which can be thrown off by ... |
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Planning at a Global Scale Pays off for VF Corp - Supply Chain Leader Interview: Planning at a Global Scale Pays off for VF Corp. i2's planning solutions help VF operate a truly demand-driven supply chain. By Victoria Cooper Ellen Martin is the vice president of Supply Chain Systems at VF Corp., the largest apparel manufacturer in the world, with 2005 revenue of $6.5 ... The company operates as a wholesaler, owning 48 brands, with plans for further acquisitions as revenue growth holds steady at 6 – 8 percent per year. VF brands include Wrangler, Lee, Riders, Rustler, Vans, Reef, Napapijri, Kipling, Nautica, The North Face, JanSport, Eastpak, Vassarette, Bestform and ... as "coalitions" in these five areas: jeanswear, outdoor, intimates, imagewear and sportswear. VF uses i2 solutions for production planning and demand fulfillment across multiple business units. At i2 Planet 2006 in May, the company received the i2 Chairman's Award for its innovation in supply chain ... |
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How do you initiate and sustain agility? - Supply Chain Leader ... chain initiative since 1994, and we are now reaping the rewards from our investments. Back in 1995, we had implemented an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system without much change in our supply chain processes and organization. And in 1997—98 we started to integrate the ERP systems at different ... our planning cycles from monthly to weekly, (2) shift from a sequential to a concurrent and consensus-based forecasting process with no allocation policy, (3) achieve global optimization by allocating products globally rather than regionally, (4) develop a synchronized single plan for all processes ... the plan happen. If we forecast 100, but Sales sees it is likely to sell 200, we need to inform everyone quickly: change the forecast, change the plan, adapt our actions. As a result, we evaluate our sales force on sales-plan accuracy. We put as much weight on performance to the sales plan as on the ... |
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Perspective: 20 Years of Innovation at i2 - Supply Chain Leader ... to keep the supply chain under control was MRP (material resource planning). MRP is essentially unidirectional planning, where you start from a forecast and a distribution plan and continue on to develop a master production plan, which enables you to issue purchase orders to suppliers. You factor in ... or parts in their supply chain. We became very good at advanced planning and scheduling and continued to broaden the scope of what we offered, adding highly differentiated demand planning and transportation planning software.We were constantly bringing new capabilities to the market. Twenty years ... what was going wrong with a plan. In the plan-do-check-act loop (PDCA), the "do" and "check" elements were absent. In recent years, we have continued to strengthen our software's capability to close that loop. The software can figure out what's going wrong with a plan, through root-cause analysis ... |
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New Systems Enable Synchronization Between Procurement and Material Planning New Systems Enable Synchronization Between Procurement and Material Planning In most large companies, the purchasing and material planning functions are done by completely separate organizations, reporting to different executives and using different metrics to measure performance. The process that ... supply chain is a more collaborative approach. i2 Collaborative Material Management is a solution that manages both procurement and material planning, merging the two organizations and their roles. In this collaborative scenario, individuals involved in the process are aware of all the other steps ... planning. All of the information needed to make these changes is provided. The level of automation is configurable, depending on a company’s business-process maturity. Suppliers communicate through a supplier collaboration interface. A lightweight planning engine allows for scenario planning and ... |
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Incitec Pivot Fertilisers adds speed and accuracy to supply chain planning - Supply Chain Leader ... and operational planning process, and to fine tune production volumes to achieve peak efficiencies at the company's manufacturing plants. Like many organizations, this agricultural supplier had previously relied on a mixture of software systems, spreadsheets and human talent to plan and manage ... in the late 1990s and i2 Supply Chain Planner approximately one year later "We were looking for a solution that could do demand planning and supply chain planning," explains Clatworthy. "We also wanted a system to handle material availability and to manage the higher-level distribution activity. i2 ... results of those analyses are uploaded to the company's SAP R3 Enterprise Resource Planning system. i2 Supply Chain Planner is used to formulate weekly and monthly sales, production procurement, and distribution plans and to manage the long-term balance between domestic and imported product supplies ... |
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Increasing Profits and Service Levels at Cementos Argos - Issue 6 - Supply Chain Leader ... Cappeletti, supply chain planning manager for Cementos Argos. To improve customer satisfaction and increase value for its shareholders, Argos needed to create a new organizational structure and supply chain processes. "Supply chain is more than demand and production planning, raw material ... with its sales and operations planning team, and conducting daily adherence tracking between the plan and reality, Argos has now integrated and optimized its strategic planning processes. The company can define service standards, sales forecasting, production plans, distribution and supply in the ... and monitor production plans, and to make quick corrective actions to adjust those plans when necessary. All of these process improvements help Argos to define, ensure, and improve its contribution margins and to better fulfill service offers. Synchronizing production plans with demand has enabled ... |
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Fuel for Thought: Strategies for Counteracting Soaring Oil Prices - Issue 6 - Supply Chain Leader ... cost savings opportunities for many companies in areas where existing transportation planning processes are not being optimized. Transportation optimization can include automated shipment and route planning, load building, intelligent shipment splitting, hub consolidation/deconsolidation ... formulating a rough equipment capacity plan, and possibly even establishing customer-carrier commitments. While many manufacturers and consumer goods and retail companies have established technology-enabled sales forecasting and/or sales and operations planning processes, very few have a corollary ... represent one or more expected business scenarios across a company's supply chain network, intended to justify planned or actual network changes and commitments. Contingency Planning — to create and fully represent any number of alternative business scenarios across a company's supply chain network ... |
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i2 and the i2 User Group Announce Ken Sharma Awards of Excellence Finalists ... and service-level improvements and to streamline and document forecasting processes that drive improved communications and sales and operations planning efforts. With i2 solutions in place, Whirlpool achieved a year-to-date forecast error reduction of more than 30 percent at both SKU level and SKU ... two years and plans to become one of the top 10 global steel producers by 2015. Essar Steel sought to increase profitability, strengthen customer relationships, reduce inventories and increase throughput. Since implementing a variety of i2 solutions to address advanced order planning and sales and ... of i2 solutions was to generate a cohesive, constrained plan for the company's supply chain. Since implementing several i2 solutions as part of an overall planning redesign, IPL has reduced monthly planning cycles by 4-5 days. Weekly planning cycles used to take 1-2 days, but now multiple runs can ... |
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Articles by Industry - Supply Chain Leader ... by John Kadlecek 5 Keys to Success in Advanced Retail Planning by Ajay Chidrawar, Adam Hatch, Chuck Kramer Planning at a Global Scale Pays Off for VF Corp., interview with Ellen Martin by Victoria Cooper Shortening the Planning Cycle by Gaurang Pandya, Hemant Pariawala, Aditya Srivastava Winners of ... Value Chains by Aamer Rehman, Kelly Thomas Continental Tire Speeds Planning Cycles and Inventory Turns by Lauren Bossers back to top Process Cementos Argos Improves Profit Margins and Customer Service with New Strategic Planning by Lauren Bossers back to top Retail Channel Management Strategies ... POS Intelligence to Improve Retail Flow-Through by Amarnath Thombre, Sanjiv Sidhu 5 Keys to Success in Advanced Retail Planning by Ajay Chidrawar, Adam Hatch, Chuck Kramer Planning at a Global Scale Pays Off for VF Corp., interview with Ellen Martin by Victoria Cooper Cycle-Time Optimization: From ... |
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Customer-Centric Strategies for Assortment Management - Supply Chain Leader ... in dramatic changes to the retail landscape—rendering customer-centricity an increasingly elusive goal. This has resulted in the merchandise planning process becoming more centralized with the majority of decisions taking place at the retailer's national headquarters. The store manager—who continues ... While a centralized planning process enables retailers to achieve substantial cost savings, it has slowly eroded their ability to connect with customers and meet their specific market needs. Retailing is rocket science! Meeting local market needs is just one of many factors contributing to the ... assortments in their stores by at least 15 percent in the next year or so. Wal-Mart disclosed plans to cut the variety of its microwave popcorn by 25 percent, and Rite Aid Corporation revealed plans to reduce the variety of its pain-relief products by 14 percent ("Retailers Cut Back on Variety, Once ... |
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i2 in the News - Supply Chain Leader ... 2009 Asian Paints Improves Supply Chain Planning Consumer Goods Technology July 2009 Asian Paints, India's largest and Asia's third-largest paint company, is featured in this article, which addresses how i2 production planning and distribution planning solutions are helping Asian Paints to ... for its Decorative Paint business. i2 adds life cycle capabilities to planning software By William Atkinson Logistics Manager August 2009 Kelly Thomas, i2's senior vice president of product strategy and planning, is quoted in this article about latest release of i2's inventory optimization software ... and their optimization plans on a fairly regular basis." i2 Technologies, Oracle and Demand Solutions Named Top S&OP Vendors by Aberdeen Group SupplyChainBrain August 2009 Aberdeen Group announced the top performing vendor rankings in its Sales & Operations Planning Solutions (S&OP) AXIS Report. In ... |
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Linking the CFO to Supply Chain Execution - Issue 6 - Supply Chain Leader ... lack centralized global supply chain management processes, resulting in fragmented governance and control, and inefficient sales and operations planning (S&OP) processes. The CFO's position and analytical skills are a natural fit to drive cross-functional execution in S&OP process management. It's ... today's global supply chain. For visionary CFOs, however, SOX compliance represents a unique opportunity to pursue best practices in supply chain planning and risk management integrated with corporate governance. The requirement to detect and report on material changes in a company's financial ... synch with their financial planning are less likely to make their numbers. For example, a semiconductor company recently implemented solutions to manage integrated sales and operations planning, thus tying the supply chain with financial management. This company has world-class supply chain ... |
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Enabling a decade of supply chain success at Deutsche Edelstahlwerke - Supply Chain Leader ... Planning, Deutsche Edelstahlwerke. "If a material cools down, it will scratch. We needed better visibility into the quantities of material that have to be transferred hot and the available timeframe before materials cool." Deutsche Edelstahlwerke used a software solution for factory planning that it ... in faster turnaround of plans, and allowing Deutsche Edelstahlwerke to respond to market conditions more efficiently. By removing the manual workflows required to manage its i2 solutions, i2 ABPP frees up the production planner and IT staff to focus more on plan improvements and accuracy. "Over the ... As a result of its incremental business improvements, Deutsche Edelstahlwerke succeeded in: Improving accuracy in production planning Following its yearly business plan more closely Making more accurate promises to customers Reducing warehouse inventory by around 20 percent Reducing pre-material ... |
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Bell Helicopter Redesigns Its SIOP Process - Supply Chain Leader ... and customer-delivery schedules. Bell recognized that it needed to improve manufacturing scheduling and planning, especially the management of constraint-based production planning, to maximize growth opportunities. Before it implemented new-generation processes and solutions from i2, Bell was an ... s enterprise planning team for supply chain integration. "There were lots of walls and barriers among divisions. There was no way we could quickly know how operations were aligned to the financial plan.We had to learn the rules of the road of sales inventory operations planning. But we have learned ... effectively balance supply and demand, produce more accurate build plans and support the SIOP process. The company wanted to create an SIOP process that would enable consistent alignment of operations with the financial plan, and offer "what-if " scenarios to see how different decisions would affect ... |
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Recession-Resistant Demand Management Strategies and Tactics - Supply Chain Strategy - Supply Chain Leader ... demand-centric and tightly integrated operations. These organizations, with their sophisticated algorithms, business intelligence, synchronized planning, roles-based abilities and cross-operational visibility, still depend upon long-term past performance history to consistently balance demand and ... agreed-upon demand plan. Shift focus toward triangulation and analysis of multiple scenarios across functions. Reconcile leading and trailing indicators. Try to share assumptions and risks. As a starting point, use aggregate annual operating plan guidelines or quarterly plan numbers distributed ... proactively use collaborative demand inputs for shorter-term demand planning. For most leading companies, the traditional sell-buy relationship between manufacturer and retailer has already evolved into a collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) model. Now it needs to go a step ... |
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How Do You Design a Supply Chain Organization to Achieve Maximum Value? - Opinion - Supply Chain Leader ... of “supply chain organization,” which varies greatly across businesses. Is the supply chain organization limited to such logistical activities as planning, sourcing and delivering? Or does its span of control extend to higher-value activities such as launching new products and managing customer ... to revenue generation, profitability and customer satisfaction. While most of the companies we surveyed included delivery (78 percent), planning (68 percent) and sourcing (63 percent) in their supply chain organizations, the functions that most of us consider higher-value activities had much lower ... of the supply chain organization, will the overall business perform better if higher-value activities are managed by the same organization that plans, sources and delivers? The answer seems to be a resounding “yes,” if we compare the supply chain organizations of the typical respondent in the AMR ... |
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What Impact Will Radio Frequency Id Have on Supply Chain Management? - Supply Chain Leader ... of power over their supply chains, are practiced at this kind of disruption management. They've invested in vulnerability studies and scenario planning and have in place the processes that allow them to detect and respond quickly to disruption. But I would argue this kind of resiliency is even more ... |
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Looking to a New Generation of Supply Chain Management - Supply Chain Leader ... the impact of this new generation will equal or exceed that of previous generations enabled by material resource planning (MRP), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and advanced planning systems (APS): The MRP Generation applied the capabilities of large-scale computing to enable companies to ... and more demanding world of supply chain management. Globalization has necessitated outsourcing and created a greater need for multi-enterprise planning and risk management, as well as for more dynamic forecasting. The time has passed when a functional focus alone—on optimizing factory production ... into data, leading to more relevant and current information, and, consequently, better modeling and forecasting, planning and decision-making. Now, forecasts and plans previously generated periodically can be created dynamically using streaming demand data. Also, demand can be shaped based on supply ... |
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Interview: Buying it Right at Sprint - Supply Chain Leader ... at Sprint, the third-largest wireless operator in the United States (revenue, $41 billion). Hahn is responsible for inventory management, demand planning, procurement, transportation and warehouse logistics for all products purchased and sold in Sprint's distribution channels. Before joining Sprint ... product development organization, and we are closely aligned with both the sales and marketing organizations.We're an integral component of the planning cycle for understanding what our product needs are for the future. Sprint has always been known for creating unique and innovative products - for ... capabilities over the Sprint network continues to grow, quarter over quarter. And Sprint's new "Simply Everything" unlimited voice and data pricing plan for $99.99 opens the door for even more customers to fully explore data services on their wireless phones and truly appreciate what wireless mobile ... |
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Supply Chain Leader - Articles by Category Articles by Category --- Case Studies Continental Tire Speeds Planning Cycles and Inventory Turns by Lauren Bossers Cementos Argos Improves Profit Margins and Customer Service with New Strategic Planning by Lauren Bossers Meeting (and Exceeding) Customer Expectations at Teich AG by Jon Kemp Cooper ... Multi-Tier Sorucing Practices for Commodities by Manish Govil, Bob Anson Transportation Management: Getting Onboard with Collaborative Capacity Planning by Hal Feuchtwanger, Razat Gaurav Taking Collaboration with Suppliers a Step Further by Kamalakar Poonuru, Mukund Srinivas Viewpoint: The Power of ... in Advanced Retail Planning by Ajay Chidrawar, Adam Hatch, Chuck Kramer Setting the Context: Enabling Continuous Process Improvement as Never Before by John Cummings Creating Greater Agility with Plan-Do-Check-Act by Adeel Najmi, Sanjiv Sidhu Shortening the Planning Cycle by Gaurang Pandya, Hemant ... |
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How (and How Often) Do You Measure Supply Chain Results? - Supply Chain Leader How (and How Often) Do You Measure Supply Chain Results? Mary Wilson Director, Global Supply Chain Management Planning Systems, Fairchild Semiconductor The Global Supply Chain Management Systems team at Fairchild develops and manages the global supply chain systems and related business processes ... and able to react based on real-time information. Our longer-term view of the supply chain is managed through a monthly sales and operations planning process (S&OP). The comprehensive metrics package we publish plays an important role in that process.We start with a consensus forecast roll-up, and ... the factories to proactively manage late work-in-process instead of waiting until the time of shipment. Timely availability of results allows the planning teams and factories to rapidly respond if things are off track. Our root-cause analyses also revealed that our orderpromising system was not ... |
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LG Sets Its Sights on Number One - Supply Chain Leader ... looks to not only become the top company in its industry, but also one of the best supply chain organizations in the world. Learn how LG plans to have one goal help enable the other. By Kelly Thomas As chief supply chain officer for LG Electronics, Didier Chenneveau has global responsibility for the ... Kelly Thomas, i2's senior vice president, product strategy and planning, Chenneveau discusses LG's strategy to create and maintain a world-class supply chain organization, and how these efforts will help the electronics company achieve its overall business goals. Didier, your title is chief supply ... |
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Supply Chain Leader - Issue 4 - Short Product Life Cycles Demand Innovation Throughout the Business Managing Supply Chains in High-Growth Environments Special attention must be paid in five key areas: organization, supply chain design, planning, demand shaping and managing transitions. Emerging markets in the Asia-Pacific region--including China, India and Southeast Asia--have become a key driver ... |
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The Beauty of Business Content Libraries - Supply Chain Leader ... supply chain management. In this new generation, business process management focuses on making plans happen.With rapid "plan-docheck- act" cycles, businesses are able to handle plan versus execution gaps on a daily basis. By shaping demand to match supply, they can reduce inventory and increase ... Typical large companies have hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of enterprise applications, even if they have implemented an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The general rule of thumb is that for every billion dollars of revenue there are at least 100 enterprise applications. Each of these ... the future. It needs to give business a window into the actual state of a supply chain, not just a picture of the plan. By connecting the transaction paradigm to the planning paradigm, an SOA platform can enable businesses to work at the speed of the Internet. For example, a transaction system can ... |
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Cooper Tire Rolls Out New System for Better Demand Fulfillment - Supply Chain Leader ... and tools were needed to remedy the situation. Distribution and replenishment planning With several i2 solutions already implemented, including those that addressed transportation management and advanced planning and scheduling, Cooper Tire was confident that i2 had both the solution and the ... replenishment planning. "The world that we were moving into was one that I dreamed of, but had never experienced," says Tim Rupright, Cooper's inventory planning administrator. "The i2 consultants really had the ability to understand our business, to communicate what we needed to do, and to train us ... that was required for the new i2 planning systems. "We had a choice to build our own infrastructure, or to go with i2 Master Data Management, and we chose i2 MDM," Sager says. "We use i2 MDM to store, maintain and clean the data that we send out to our planning systems." In the past, making ... |
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Taking an Optimized Approach to Inventory Management - Supply Chain Leader ... Leveraging continuous learning to close the loop between targets and performance Understanding and using affinities for greater efficiency • Planning for uncertainty Seeing beyond cost Establish clear, inventory-related objectives What is the secret ingredient that separates the top performers from ... the basic assumptions behind an inventory plan. In one example, a successful electronics manufacturer reviewed its inventory plan, supply data and inventory targets on an ongoing basis. It identified root causes for deviations and developed action plans to eliminate or mitigate them.Within weeks ... them to plan for replenishment of associated products based on sales of primary products. Of course, these kinds of product segmentations affect more than just inventory management and should be formulated in the context of a company's broader supply chain and business objectives. Plan for ... |
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Improving Supply Chain Responsiveness at Altera - Supply Chain Leader ... chain responsiveness. Executives decided to target improvements in demand and supply planning processes to keep Altera's competitive edge. The fabless semiconductor company had been generating weekly execution plans and monthly long-range forecasts using Excel™ spreadsheets. This manual process was ... especially for the semiconductor industry. Using data from an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and a work-in-process (WIP) inventory tracking system, the solution generates daily execution plans, guiding off-shore facilities what to assemble and test. i2 solutions also output long-range ... of their time simply gathering data. Now, planners can spend more time analyzing their data and less time gathering it. "i2 is the heart of our planning and forecasting process at Altera," said David Logan, director of supply chain management at Altera. "i2 continues to provide Altera with an ... |
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How to Get Supply Chain Value Fast - Supply Chain Leader ... much higher costs. But many executives have become wary of this approach in the past two decades. The reason is clear today: enterprise resource planning (ERP) and similar projects are like multipleorgan transplant surgery--they are complex and risky. Information technology project complexity is ... was greater or less than planned, and tell me what we can do about it today, please." This is substantially different from waiting for the monthly cycle to complete, then getting an ERP backward-looking report and then figuring out what to do about it in the next planning cycle. Furthermore, these ... |
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i2 and the i2 User Group Announce Ken Sharma Awards of Excellence - Inside i2 - Supply Chain Leader ... advancements in supply chain management using i2 solutions. The award competition was open to hundreds of i2 customers with implementations planned, in progress or completed. AMR Research served as the exclusive judge of the Ken Sharma Awards of Excellence, evaluating the entries on the basis of ... levels and field sales operations. Working together with i2, Sprint began to improve its key business processes. i2 solutions for forecasting and planning now enable Sprint to automate weekly demand forecasts across all channels for its handsets and accessories. This has made a positive impact on ... an impact on the development of supply chain planning that continues to resonate today. Throughout his career, Sharma worked to define and redefine the concepts of global optimization, multi-enterprise planning, master planning and supply chain planning. His leadership and vision not only helped ... |
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Protecting Revenue Through Supply Chain Risk Management - Supply Chain Leader ... in forecasting. We look at it this way: capacity is the risk shock absorber between tactical and strategic planning, and inventory is the shock absorber between execution and tactical planning. At ON Semiconductor, we've learned to let the customer-order lead-time patterns drive the safety-stock ... |
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Inside i2: Winners of the Ken Sharma Award for Excellence - Supply Chain Leader - Issue 2 ... category. Now in its fifth year, the annual Ken Sharma Award for Excellence competition is open to hundreds of i2 customers with implementations planned, in progress or completed. AMR Research serves as the exclusive judge, evaluating the entries on the basis of vision, implementation depth and ... meet the requirements of its everchanging business environment, VF implemented i2 solutions for forecasting, planning, tracking and replenishment operations. The company reduced its planning cycle time by 75 percent, increased customer-service levels by 15 percent and also reduced obsolescence. In ... award Nicholas Piramal India Limited (NPIL) implemented i2 solutions to centralize its planning activities and forecast domestic business activities. Final forecasting data are leveraged for production planning and reporting across the company's sales information systems. NPIL has improved forecast ... |
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Best Practices in Global Logistics - Supply Chain Leader ... to develop in-house competencies related to logistics network design, logistics sourcing and management, transportation capacity planning, global shipment planning, visibility and event management? Should companies be outsourcing some logistics execution functions, such as conducting pre-booking and ... and storage? Additionally, global multi-divisional companies are creating a shared-services organizational structure to procure, plan, execute, monitor and measure global freight movements. Global logistics organizations are evolving into "internal 4PL" business models to effectively manage and ... not a silver bullet in solving all complexities related to global logistics. Yet, when combined with intelligent exception management, logistics planning and execution workflows, this layer of global visibility can be a very powerful weapon in managing variability in the global flow of goods. 4 ... |
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Case Studies - Supply Chain Leader Case Studies --- Latest Issue Continental Tire Speeds Planning Cycles and Inventory Turns Demand planning and inventory optimization maximize service and cut costs Continental Corporation is the fifth-largest automotive supplier in the world, with extensive know-how in tire and brake technology ... control and adaptive cruise control. — by Lauren Bossers Cementos Argos Improves Profit Margins and Customer Service with New Strategic Planning With more than 50 percent of the cement market in Colombia, Cementos Argos was well positioned as a local industry leader. But the company sought to ... |
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The New Multiplex Theater for Supply Chain Management - Supply Chain Leader ... on enabling sales and revenue growth Acceleration of business processes Visibility across the entire supply chain Demand shaping Integration of planning and execution The technology is built on an open, modular architecture featuring Web services as the business interface. It allows, for the first ... platform as a multiplex theater of capabilities, allowing visibility into multiple "features"—such as strategic planning, tactical actions, operational sequences and monitoring of performance metrics—all in a single location. Besides Web services, the platform houses data services, integration ... methods of computation. Visibility into the full picture allows you not just to improve planning and control inside your own company but also to improve collaboration with partners. You're able to link planning and execution as well as supply and demand in ways not feasible before these ... |
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Customer-Centric Approach Drives Global Growth for Tata Steel - Supply Chain Leader ... We saw the relationship with i2 as a critical partnership," says Biswajit Roychowdhury, chief of planning for Tata's Flat Steel Division. "Our final decision to go with i2 Sales and Operations Planning, i2 Factory Planner and i2 Material Allocator was the culmination of a long process of due ... root-cause analysis capabilities to identify what has caused the differences. "Improving our ability to forecast allows us to use due-date-based planning, which helps us to meet demand with higher utilization of assets," says Roychowdhury. "Also, instead of manually balancing resources as before, we ... of possibilities." — by Elizabeth Greer "Improving our ability to forecast allows us to use due-date-based planning, which helps us to meet demand with higher utilization of assets," says Roychowdhury. See also Metals Industry Plan Management Transportation Planning and Management i2 Factory Planner |
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How Innovative is your Supply Chain? - Supply Chain Leader ... market conditions". The key word here is changing. For the first time, today's information technology advances give companies the opportunity to plan, make, source and deliver at the speed of business—to capture, analyze and change business processes and workflows to meet market demand on a ... planned versus actual supply chain performance Continually shaping demand by dynamically adjusting price configurations Providing global inventory visibility Leveraging execution data in a real-time planning environment Utilizing transportation and logistics more broadly in supply chain planning ... don't throw out the baby with the bathwater, so to speak. They can embrace legacy systems, whether of the ERP (enterprise resource planning) or APS (advanced planning systems) variety. They can integrate with other software applications, whether customized or standard, from other software developers ... |
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Supply Chain Leader - Ideas & Innovations from i2 ... organizations in the world. In this interview with Didier Chenneveau, LG's chief supply chain officer, learn how LG plans to have one goal help enable the other. Proactive Planning for Demand Uncertainty The current economic environment has made all of us aware of the risks and market uncertainty ... Virtual Roundtable, thought leaders discuss the evolution and future of sales and operations planning (S&OP). Case Study Incitec Pivot Fertilisers adds speed and accuracy to supply chain planning Large fluctuations in seasonal orders and costs driven by global supply and demand require agricultural ... effort to improve business efficiency and service performance, Incitec Pivot Fertilisers relies on i2 solutions to support crucial supply chain planning activities. i2 in the News: October 2009 Read the latest news coverage on i2 from around the web. Opinion How Do You Design a Supply Chain ... |
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Risk Management: New Technologies Help Identify and Mitigate Risks - Supply Chain Leader (Georgia Tech Research News, February 2, 2004, article by Vinod Singhal and Kevin Hendricks.) Perhaps that’s why AMR Research finds that “Nearly 50 percent of companies intend to evaluate or deploy new technology for supply chain risk management in the next year or two.” (AMR Research: “Managing Risk in the Supply Chain—A Quantitative Study,” by Mark Hillman and Heather Keltz, January 3, 2007.) Once risk factors are properly identified, analyzed and prioritized based on severity and ... |
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Four Megatrends That Will Change Supply Chain Management - Supply Chain Leader ... across their own functions and across the multiple supply chain partnerships they maintain for the processes of the extended supply chain: planning, sourcing, making, delivering and returning product in a global environment. Global terrorism and multi-front conflicts will lead companies to move away ... |
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Shelf-Centered Collaboration ... some retailers started sharing aggregated sales data for refining the forecast. Account-level collaboration spurred the advent of Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR®), a concept that supports a joint system of shared information among retailers and suppliers ... was to leverage this information to drive an optimal replenishment plan and in many cases, "direct-to-store" delivery. In addition to store POS data, analysis such as store grading, wave planning, presentation stock planning and product ranging would influence this collaboration. Shelf-centered ... |
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Private-Label Sourcing: What's Next After China? - Cover Story - Supply Chain Leader Based on opinions from the experts—the retailers themselves—an entirely new list of attributes defines the ideal global sourcing partner today: These trading partners must be integrated seamlessly into retailers’ global supply chains, sharing both information and technology tools. Finally, the next generation of sourcing partners must demonstrate sustainable value by creating new advantages that help retailers achieve the assortment edge they need in today’s marketplace. |
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Supply Chain Leader Issue 3 - About - Supply Chain Management - i2 ... the highest level of process maturity, companies are synchronizing across functions continuously, giving them the opportunity not just to meet the plan, but to supersede it for greater profitability and market share. Download Features Unlocking the Future: Four Megatrends That Will Change Supply ... Download Shortening the Planning Cycle by Gaurang Pandya, Hemant Pariawala and Aditya Srivastava New tools allow companies to plan at the speed of business. Download The New Analytics by Jim Caudill and Rajat Bhargav Business intelligence is getting smarter and quicker. Download Case studies JFE ... to Inventory Management, by Adeel Najmi and Lee Wilwerding Download Transportation Management: Getting Onboard with Collaborative Capacity Planning, by Hal Feuchtwanger and Razat Gaurav Download Departments CEO’s Perspective How Innovative Is Your Supply Chain? by Michael E. McGrath Download ... |
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Supply Chain Leader - Case Studies ... planning Green and Lean: Kimberly-Clark Drives Sustainability through the Heart of its Supply Chain Enabling a decade of supply chain success at Deutsche Edelstahlwerke MasterBrand Cabinets Gains Transportation Visibility and Efficiency with i2 FreightMatrix Continental Tire Speeds Planning ... Cycles and Inventory Turns Cementos Argos Improves Profit Margins and Customer Service with New Strategic Planning Cooper Tire Rolls Out New Systems for Better Demand Fulfillment Customer-Centric Approach Drives Global Growth for Tata Steel JFE Group: Innovation and Agility Boost World's ... |
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Social Marketing and Supply Chain Management: The Next Consumer Data Challenge—and Opportunity Social Marketing and Supply Chain Management: The Next Consumer Data Challenge—and Opportunity Figure 1: Benefits of Social Media Marketing (% of Respondents, multiple response OK) What social intelligence means to retailers and consumer goods companies |
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Leveraging POS Intelligence to Improve Retail Flow-Through - Supply Chain Leader ... to drive their supply chains by making both short-term and long-term decisions based on consumer behavior rather than on what the retail buyer is planning to order. Using POS effectively Many of these CP thought leaders have developed competencies around POS that enable them to make better ... are not of strategic focus for the retailer, and for brand owners with significant clout with the retailer. In an enhanced CPFR (collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment) model, the brand owner shares insights derived from analysis of POS data to influence the forecast signal and ... impact on sell-out and channel inventory. Integrating clean POS data within an array of cuttingedge, exception-based, demand-sensing and planning tools and services now makes it possible for manufacturers to stay in tune with changing consumer preferences and to ensure that their supply chain is ... |
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Cycle-Time Optimization - Column - Supply Chain Leader ... five key areas in which enhanced visibility and collaboration can eliminate months in private-label cycle time. Integrated design and demand planning. Typically, a private-label sourcing team learns of new product designs and associated raw-materials needs about six months before the beginning of a ... the most of purchasing investments. Integrated manufacturing planning. Private-label product teams can cut significant cycle time by using early design specifications to choose the most cost-effective manufacturer, as well as to plan exactly how products will be made and shipped. For example, the ... |
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What are the top priorities in supply chain management for your business? - Supply Chain Leader ... demand planning processes. Retailers want to see what the POS data mean to their forecast and how they can adjust that forecast and send the appropriate demand signals back through the supply base. As the supply chain extends, and lead times grow, the skills of forecasting and demand planning become ... retailers will need to invest in recruiting and, most importantly, retaining employees with skills in forecasting, optimization and supply chain planning. To keep talented people with those skill sets, retailers must stay current with the technology. People with those skills are in demand and will ... geography and other parameters to help retailers optimize product assortment store by store. I think working together around product-assortment planning will be the next big win-win collaboration between retailers and suppliers. Getting the internal house in order While the value of these deeper ... |
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Creating Virtual Verticality in Horizontal Supply Chains - Supply Chain Leader ... capital-draining assets. New technology enabled shorter cycle times In conjunction with these new management strategies, materials resource planning tools (MRP and MRP II) were developed that enabled companies for the first time to compute material requirements based on what was needed to achieve ... cycle time even more by integrating trading partners through shared networks. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems helped integrate supply chain transactions with the enterprise. Advanced planning systems (APS) addressed the shortcomings of MRP and ERP through functional optimization ... constraints, APS allowed accurate supply chain modeling and rapid concurrent planning—leading to the design of specific data models and planning engines. Enter the World Wide Web and another exponential advancement in supply chain management. Though heralded as an unprecedented panacea for commerce ... |
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Getting Greener Together ... this by developing an ongoing capability to monitor and document the organization's carbon footprint. Next, transportation firms should design and plan for sustainability. They should create and evaluate network changes that will contribute to greater sustainability, while always considering the ... |
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Transportation Visibity at Masterbrand Cabinets - Supply Chain Leader ... designs each truck shipment before the plant actually manufactures it. The plant then "builds" the truck, in load stop order. "Because we plan our trucks upfront, it's a different transportation model," Hedinger said. "We aren't just moving product from point A to point B. We have to work around ... for planning. Once selected, they are sent to Transportation Planner, which produces an optimal transportation plan, based on actual network costs and constraints, and generates the loads for production that day. MasterBrand's schedulers look at that data to ensure that all planned orders are on ... and that customers' expectations on delivery will be met. The final plan is then sent to manufacturing, which starts the production process, and is also confirmed within Transportation Manager to start the electronic tendering process. Loads are tendered to one of MasterBrand's multi-stop truckload ... |
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Process Playbooks: Playing by the Rules - Issue 6 - Supply Chain Leader ... fickle consumer preferences and shrinking retail margins. Every business has a top-level strategic plan, but today's volatile environment brings constant surprises that may throw that plan off course. In the face of these disruptions, it is becoming more and more challenging to remain focused on ... to run promotions, drop prices, shift inventory or take other drastic actions. However, because these actions are not rooted in thoughtful planning or analysis, they may not support top-level strategic goals. And, too often, these rash reactions can make a bad situation even worse. For instance, a ... are based on a series of three actions that occur in a continuous cycle: Monitor performance to identify any deviations from the strategic plan Perform root-cause analysis to clarify the underlying reasons for these deviations Take predetermined actions that address these root causes, bringing the ... |
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JFE Case Study: Innovation and Agility Boost World's Third-Largest Steelmaker ... with the merger] was to improve profitability by increasing our ratio of high-grade products. Besides the right product mix, we needed an action plan for adjusting sales that could be evaluated and shared throughout the entire company." At the same time, Kikugawa says, JFE wanted to determine the ... As a result, it was impossible to operate the mills with the flexibility required to respond easily to changes. The new system updates production plans on a daily basis. This gives JFE the agility it needs to adapt quickly to changes in supply and demand and to see the profitability of any of its ... and at optimum efficiency is key to the company's success. The typical weekly production planning at the steel works now occurs daily. This has reduced lead times and improved accuracy in production planning. The steelmaker is meeting its goals to expand sales of high-grade steel, shorten lead times ... |
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Supply Chain Leader magazine ... and Sanjiv Sidhu Unlocking the Future: Four Megatrends That Will Change Supply Chain Management by Michael Levi and Jim Caudill Shortening the Planning Cycle by Gaurang Pandya, Hemant Pariawala and Aditya Srivastava The New Analytics by Jim Caudill and Rajat Bhargav Inventory Optimization: Taking an ... Capacity Planning by Hal Feuchtwanger and Razat Gaurav Why Multi-Platform Strategies Are Good for Business by Aditya Srivastava Training for the Future: Schools worldwide develop new programs in supply chain management by John Feld Taking Collaboration with Suppliers a Step Further by Kamalakar ... Profitability by Gaurang Pandya Uncovering the True Costs of Global Sourcing by Kelly Thomas and Harish Iyer 5 Keys to Success in Advanced Retail Planning by Ajay Chidrawar, Adam Hatch and Chuck Kramer Supply Chain Study Shows Impact of Complexity by Kevin Lewis and Richard Sheinfeld Forecast ... |
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Best Practices - Supply Chain Leader ... Multi-Tier Sorucing Practices for Commodities by Manish Govil, Bob Anson Transportation Management: Getting Onboard with Collaborative Capacity Planning by Hal Feuchtwanger, Razat Gaurav Taking Collaboration with Suppliers a Step Further by Kamalakar Poonuru, Mukund Srinivas Viewpoint: The Power of ... Too by Mohan Balachandran, Jim Morganstern Collaborative Material Management: New Systems Enable Synchronization Between Procurement and Material Planning by Sharmista Dubey Forecast Optimization: A Holistic Approach by Adeel Najmi, Harjot Sachdeva, Girish Gulvady Beyond Business: Technology ... in Advanced Retail Planning by Ajay Chidrawar, Adam Hatch, Chuck Kramer Setting the Context: Enabling Continuous Process Improvement as Never Before by John Cummings Creating Greater Agility with Plan-Do-Check-Act by Adeel Najmi, Sanjiv Sidhu Shortening the Planning Cycle by Gaurang Pandya, Hemant ... |
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Old Navy Leverages Supply Chain Management Technology to Stay Lean and Green - Supply Chain Leader - i2 ... senior vice president of Inventory Management at Old Navy, a division of Gap Inc. In this position since 2007, he is responsible for production, planning and allocation, brand management, and pricing. Since joining Gap Inc. in 1992, Salmonson has held roles across all three of the company's major ... Salmonson discusses the state of supply chain management in the retail industry today, and the critical role of planning and preparation in Old Navy's implementation of i2 solutions. You've had quite a tenure with Gap, Inc., with more than 16 years of service. Obviously many significant changes have ... |
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Supply Chain Leader - Issue 5 -Measuring Performance Across the Value Chain ... into business intelligence, as the focus shifted to operational analytics: using analytical data to create and track processspecific improvement plans and goals. In a short time, virtually every business had a corporate performance management (CPM) effort in place, supported by dashboards and ... as well as to create an ambitious, but achievable, plan for the future. Functional targets and rewards should always support the larger corporate strategy, but in reality they may actually work against it. When an overall supply chain plan has been created, the SCPM effort next turns to defining the ... is happening now and what has happened in the past, but also what is forecasted to happen in the future, through the creation of forward-looking plan data. Powerful scorecards, dashboards and analytical reports allow supply chain decision-makers to test multiple "what-if " scenarios and predict the ... |
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The Lean Challenge in Demand-Driven Value Chains - Supply Chain Leader ... they are calling for a combined process and technology deployment model that can address complex fulfillment challenges. Partly, this is because planning, scheduling and execution are converging, and the hierarchical levels among them are diminishing, due to the need for quick decision support in a ... planning and scheduling must take a number of factors into account. First, there is the need to schedule build-to-order, make-to-stock and assembleto- order items on the same production resources. Then, there are the start-of-life and end-of-life issues associated with parts planning and ordering ... scenarios quickly to assess the impact of changes on inventory targets, product mix and capacity utilization before publishing a feasible level plan. The new paradigm In the old paradigm, the kanban signals keep all inhouse and external operations synchronized with the pacemaker. These signals are ... |
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Using Order Management to Get Closer to Your Customers - Supply Chain Leader ... of enterprise resource planning systems and other information technology (IT) systems that were complex, siloed and difficult to manage. Those calcified back-end structures add cost, risk and inefficiency to any distribution network. They prevent companies from planning and executing the accelerated ... have attempted to modernize and update their order processing systems, only to have sometimes overly ambitious efforts stall due to inadequate planning, the tremendous complexity of multi-channel fulfillment and simple organizational inertia. Fortunately, the software industry has learned from those ... win (for example, in a selected channel or business unit), and then expand the initiative to other channels, units or locations in a carefully planned rollout. Then, leverage the benefits. A streamlined order management and fulfillment system begins by introducing standardization and consolidation ... |
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Enabling Continuous Process Improvement as Never Before - Supply Chain Leader ... as support for manufacturing rather than as a co-equal system component in its own right, changes to supply chains have been less deliberately planned and more reactive. And these reactive changes tend to be larger and more abrupt. Take the corporate shift from vertical to horizontal structures.What ... to a changing supply chain environment. Moreover, technology-driven changes are more likely to be reactive than consciously and deliberately planned. Another drawback is that technology developments usually address process "pieces," rather than the whole supply chain. And improvements during the ... robust supply chain. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is the ultimate in technology-driven advancements. Software developers saw an opportunity to capitalize on the quantum increase in hardware computing power that had grown since material resource planning (MRP) and MRP-II were developed in the ... |
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Supply Chain Leader - Issue 2 - Supply Chain Management - i2 ... parts costs may be reduced, the costs of running the supply chain may go up when sourcing globally. Download 5 Keys to Success in Advanced Retail Planning by Ajay Chidrawar, Adam Hatch and Chuck Kramer Keeping the right product mix on hand while keeping inventory low is a balancing act with little ... Manish Govil and Bob Anson Departments CEO’s Perspective The New Multiplex Theater for Supply Chain Management, by Michael E. McGrath Interview Planning at a Global Scale Pays Off for VF Corp., interview with Ellen Martin, by Victoria Cooper Technology Update Web Services -- Catalyst for Agility, by ... |
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What's on the Horizon? - Supply Chain Leader ... is an evergreen topic in supply chain journals, many real-world initiatives in this realm have fallen flat. Disciplines like collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) are constantly undercut by unilateral service-level agreements, information-hoarding by channel masters and ... and among customers as their requirements and demands shift. To meet the challenge of dynamic demand, supply chains must continuously adapt planning and execution processes, organizations, sourcing strategies and networks—even the configuration of the parameters. The process of dynamically changing ... |
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Big is Beautiful at Panasonic - Supply Chain Leader ... in demand of the past year or so, that has been a problem. Because these are high-priced items, it became obvious to us that for forecasting and planning purposes we needed to have closer knowledge of demand signals at the point of sale (POS). So we've had to transition from being a "sell-in ... |
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A Platform for the Future - Supply Chain Leader ... easily customizable to address diverse business problems; they are not “one size fits all.” For example, Excel can be leveraged for interactive planning and reporting.WinForm can be used for transactional systems, and a Web browser can be employed by casual users or users with limited access. The UI ... For example, within the context of a supply chain fulfillment solution, a company may already handle order capture through an enterprise resource planning (ERP) module and a Webbased sales application.With componentization, it's possible to leverage existing order-capture mechanisms. In that ... |
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Channel Management Strategies When Times are Tough - Supply Chain Strategy - Supply Chain Leader ... buyers growing increasingly cautious. Winning channel management strategies Successful strategies of the recent past—such as using collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment to achieve 98 percent in-stock levels or 10-plus weeks of target inventory—are no longer guarantees against ... performance to identify deviations from the strategic plan Performing root-cause analysis to clarify the underlying reasons for these deviations Taking predetermined actions to address these root causes with a set of rules and contingency plans that have a high probability of leading to a specific ... |
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Opinion - Supply Chain Leader Opinion Proactive Planning for Demand Uncertainty by Blake Johnson The Supply Chain Opportunity in a Challenging Economy by Jackson L. Wilson, Jr. How do you design a supply chain organization to achieve maximum value? by Cynthia Fusco Can a Green Supply Chain Be an Efficient Supply Chain? by Guy ... Global Supply Chain, Dell Noha Tohamy, Vice President, Head of Research, AMR Research Adeel Najmi, Vice President, Product Strategy and Planning, i2 Transportation and Logistics Greg Aimi, Research Director, AMR Research Jim Blaeser, Publisher, American Shipper Fabrizio Brasca, Vice President, i2 |
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i2 in the News - Supply Chain Leader ... i2's announcement of planning on demand software-as-a-service for growing fabless semiconductor companies. Top 3 Supply Chain Challenges This Summer By Kelly Thomas Supply Chain Digest July 2009 Kelly Thomas, i2's senior vice president of product strategy and planning, authored this article on cost ... of supply management at i2, is quoted on product content as it relates to risk exposure. i2 Technologies shifts gear on green logistics Computer Business Review July 2009 This articles discusses the green transportation planning and reporting features contained in i2's latest TMS solutions release ... |
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Can a Green Supply Chain Be an Efficient Supply Chain? - Opinion - Supply Chain Leader Companies must look at transportation modes and how they can be greener; how they can cut down on the distance needed to move material; how they package goods to be moved; and if packaging can be reused to lower the overall environmental impact. Utilizing logistics beams and air bags in trailers to double-stack pallets safely to eliminate damage in transit Once companies gain the proper motivation and start looking at the greening of their supply chains in earnest, supply chain managers will... |
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There's Power in POS Data - Not Just for Retailers, but for Suppliers Too - Supply Chain Leader ... such functions as POS, must-arrive-by dates, fill rate, etc. The aggregation of all the data can amount to 90 million pieces of data per day. Sales-reporting tools traditionally used in operational planning are built to analyze trends and changes in large amounts of data by storing the data in a ... |
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Inside Supply Chain Globalization at GM - Supply Chain Leader ... bringing our logistics systems back into GM with our systems integrators, we are working on new functionality in the areas of supplier capacity planning and control, best total-landed-cost analysis tools, vehicle visibility tools, and new metrics and reporting capabilities. Also, we're working on a ... |
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Technology Update - Why Multi-Platform Strategies Are Good for Business ... environment, the real-time enterprise must support interoperability among multiple enterprise resource planning (ERP) business platforms if it is to meet the dynamic needs for visibility, planning, collaboration and execution in the extended supply chain. But since the introduction of ERP systems to ... Process Platform is in a position to integrate and leverage those other platforms into a single environment in order to support supply chain planning, collaboration and visibility. For instance, i2 ABPP can work with SAP NetWeaver,™ oriented toward transaction processing, which is handled by the ... |
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i2 in the News - Supply Chain Leader ... i2's announcement of planning on demand software-as-a-service for growing fabless semiconductor companies. Top 3 Supply Chain Challenges This Summer By Kelly Thomas Supply Chain Digest July 2009 Kelly Thomas, i2's senior vice president of product strategy and planning, authored this article on cost ... to risk exposure. i2 Technologies shifts gear on green logistics Computer Business Review July 2009 This articles discusses the green transportation planning and reporting features contained in i2's latest TMS solutions release. More In the news: June/July | July/August | August/September 2009 |
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The Supply Chain Leader Virtual Roundtable: Transportation and Logistics ... and they should be the first to implement TMS modernization efforts. For asset-based providers—and troubled ocean carriers in particular—plans to upgrade this critical system may be delayed for awhile due to their inability to bounce back from the downturn. Brasca: From our point of view, there are ... |
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Managing the Human Element - Supply Chain Leader ... tier--ensuring that everyone in the organization is working toward the same results. Aligning people, processes and systems Sales and operations planning has demonstrated that it is not enough to simply establish connection points between the supply and demand sides of the organization. Instead ... tools and systems. Many organizations begin this process by rationalizing their products, while others focus on enhancing transparency, so that planning and execution are better synchronized. A logical starting point for many businesses is specifying technology tools and systems that more ... recognize and respond to variability. Subsequently, the entire organization is empowered to take corrective actions and keep overall performance plans on track. 4. Build confidence through synchronized, operational information. The accumulation of hard data removes doubts and instills confidence ... |
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Managing Dynamic Demand in Electronics - Supply Chain Leader ... small changes was too much for the semiconductor manufacturer's planning and inventory management capabilities. Taking a demand-driven approach to inventory management i2 quickly understood the root of the problem: that no fixed plan can accommodate dynamic demand. Manually correcting mistakes as ... solution. Instead, this company needed a more flexible, demand-driven approach to inventory management that would continuously update the plan. i2 worked with the company to put in place an inventory management system that would automatically adapt to changing customer demand on a continuous basis ... |
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The Supply Chain Leader Virtual Roundtable: Inventory Optimization ... Global Supply Chain, Dell Noha Tohamy, Vice President, Head of Research, AMR Research Adeel Najmi, Vice President, Product Strategy and Planning, i2 SCL: We have heard a lot of buzz about inventory optimization in the last five to seven years. Can you separate the hype from the reality? How much ... |
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The Supply Chain Opportunity in a Challenging Economy ... investments you make now will allow you to better prepare for more expansive supply chain improvements in the future. Did your long-range business plans call for supply chain improvements this year? If so, then stay the course. Any new investments you make today can put you ahead of the curve when ... is that the customer has moved from a 100 percent manual inventory review to a prioritized exception-based process, reducing end-to-end targets planning, review and approval times by 40 percent. Solutions like this, and others such as our hosted transportation solution, i2 FreightMatrix, are ... i2 Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Leave a comment on this article Listen Online | Download podcast Masters of Contingency Planning No company wants to find themselves dealing with a disaster. But these businesses have earned admiration for the way in which they conquered ... |
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Lenovo's Online Buying Experience Leads to Competitive Advantage - Interview - Supply Chain Leader ... this a new discovery—but it allowed us to catch up to our competitors in a big way on the customer-facing front end and make improvements in our planning processes on the back end. How do you identify and segment your customer base? We service a broad spectrum of customers online, from individual ... this project for the initial six months on what was a pretty significant amount of custom development work. All of the new processes have gone as planned, with only minor hiccups here and there. I would say that the relationship we have built, the team that we have today, and the quality of the ... |
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Technology - Supply Chain Leader ... by Samir Bhargava, Lilith Vadlamannati Collaborative Material Management: New Systems Enable Synchronization Between Procurement and Material Planning by Sharmista Dubey Risk Management: New Technologies Help Identify and Mitigate Risks by Darren Ward and Anand Iyer Beyond Business: Technology ... |
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Minimizing Risk During SCM Implementations - Issue 6 - Supply Chain Leader ... with regard to scheduling, cost, scope or quality. Typically, the process of risk management entails identifying these events, preparing a response plan, monitoring the risk level and implementing an appropriate response when unexpected events occur. For most technology project teams, risk ... weekly via the dashboards to show the current state of the risk, as well as highlighting any actions needed to eliminate the risk, mitigate it or plan a contingency. This additional oversight has proven beneficial to our project execution. Ensure ownership of solutions and associated risks Virtually ... |
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News Briefs - Supply Chain Leader ... solutions for strategic network design and analysis, transportation modeling and what-if analysis, transportation bid optimization, shipment planning and optimization, transportation execution, freight financial management, supply chain visibility, performance management and analytics. i2 helps ... material availability, labor availability, due dates and production policies. Built on the principles of lean manufacturing and constraint-based planning, i2 solutions enable companies to reach the best throughput and customer service at the lowest inventory level and cost. Burt's Bees is reaping ... |
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A Fresh Look at Customer Service Excellence - Supply Chain Leader ... core processes that allow our customers to have a direct influence on our product, industry and service offerings. i2 now develops action plans based on customer feedback, ensuring that our customers see their fingerprints on all that we do. Customer-centric programs and processes Three key ... results of the survey seriously, listening to both concerns and praise for our solutions and services. That feedback helps i2 develop the action plans that will enable higher product quality, improved reliability and easier upgrade paths. In 2006, the responses on key indicators related to customer ... |
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Outsourcing Supply Chain Analytics Can Improve Business Results - Supply Chain Leader ... from such sources as POS data capture, market research, the Internet and RFID. Subscription outsourcing is a way to improve supply chain planning and effectiveness quickly, at a reasonable cost. Getting started can take as little as two months, so time-to-results is far faster and less costly than ... promise for companies that want to reach the next level of supply chain effectiveness quickly, at a relatively low cost. By supporting better planning, demand forecasting and inventory management, this new category of out-sourcing is delivering major returns to the companies that have tried it. — by ... |
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Electronics Retailer Case Study - Supply Chain Leader ... monitoring, providing a "right-now" picture that could track all milestones and detect plan deviations. This solution would have to enable timely responses to current and potential deviations from the plan, and include the capability to automatically invoke resolution workflows based on business ... |
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Beyond Business - Supply Chain Leader ... ware-house spaces. "The thing about disaster relief efforts is, despite how much you plan or think you’re prepared, the catastrophe can be so great that you need to make decisions on the ground and adjust your plan on the fly," says Thode. Six Aidmatrix staff traveled to Louisiana when the Food Bank ... |
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Increase Profitability by Managing Local Market Assortments - Focus - Supply Chain Leader ... the company's stock, citing an "unprecedented decline" in the U.S. housing market. The previous week, JCPenney CEO Mike Ullman announced plans to cut store openings and renovations in 2009, consistent with continuing expectations of a challenging year for the American consumer. In the current ... |
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Short Product Life Cycles Demand Innovation Throughout the Business - Supply Chain Leader ... achieving longterm strategic goals. They make enormous investments in design, tooling, manufacturing and inventory, often without a well-defined plan for maximizing profitability over the entire product life cycle. Often, the life cycle ends before the manufacturer has a sound sense of the product's ... and Dies, Scrap Marketing/Demand Generation Cost Promotions Operator/Channel Subsidy (Price Protection) Sales and Operations Cost: Sales Comps, Planning Costs Process and Activity Cost: Order Management, Inquiries, VMI Freight: Inbound/Outbound, Expedite Inbound/Inter- Facility Freight: Plant to DC ... |
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Taking Collaboration with Suppliers s Step Further - Supply Chain Leader ... launching innovative technologies or phone designs before competitors. This wireless provider has addressed these issues by implementing a new planning framework and using a supplier collaboration tool to manage all aspects of forecasting, purchase orders and replenishment. In the area of ... The wireless provider can execute marketing-channel-specific promotions with a high degree of confidence that phones will be available, and can plan for the unexpected far in advance. Inventory levels have also been optimized, ensuring that retail customers are neither starved for product nor ... |
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What Impact Will Radio Frequency Id Have on Supply Chain Management? - Supply Chain Leader ... system enhancements that took advantage of the new data RFID readers collect, and we have many more refinements planned that will significantly improve our business. We're planning software enhancements that will improve our ability to move and manage merchandise; and we'll see increased ... |
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i2 in the News - Supply Chain Leader ... Getting more from less with inventory optimization Modern Materials Handling September 2009 Adeel Najmi, vice president of product strategy and planning for i2, is quoted in this article on new approaches to inventory management. i2 to Present at Automotive Logistics Global Conference Fox Business ... 2009. Kelly Thomas, senior vice president of Product Strategy and Planning at i2, will participate in a Logistics Service Providers Forum with i2 customers Christopher Connor, president of Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, America, and John Diez, vice president of Field Finance, Ryder. Enabling a ... |
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Supply Chain Leader ... more information about specific i2 solutions? No Yes (if yes, please answer below) Please choose from the solutions below: Supply Management Plan Management Retail Management Inventory Management Logistics Management Manufacturing Management Channel Management Consulting Services Reporting ... |
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Private-Label Sourcing: What's Next After China? - Cover Story - Supply Chain Leader ... Supply Chain Applications with Continuous Change by Samir Bhargava and Lalith Vadlamannati PDF (422K) Case Study: Continental Tire Speeds Planning Cycles and Inventory Turns by Lauren Bossers PDF (291K) Increase Profitability by Managing Local Market Assortments Focus by Ijaz Parpia and Sai ... |
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The Power of Many: User Groups Spur Professional Growth, Stronger Realtionships with Vendors - Supply Chain Leader ... Semiconductor Special Interest Group, we have been able to solve some really difficult problems related to inventory optimization and scenario planning. Our influence is stronger when we speak with a singular voice as a user community, giving us a greater power of influence as we seek product ... |
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The Case for Knowledge Process Outsourcing - Supply Chain Leader The Case for Knowledge Process Outsourcing --- Each business unit had its own relationship with one of ABC's manufacturing sites, creating massive duplications and inefficiencies The kinds of services provided by BPO include: |
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Overcoming the New Demand Uncertainty - Supply Chain Leader Overcoming the New Demand Uncertainty --- Manufacturers can restructure their demand forecasting in order to make it more collaborative, as well as basing it on a "range" of uncertainty that is more realistic and informative than a definitive forecast. The old adage "think globally, act locally" doesn't hold up when the supply chain is distributed around the entire world. |
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Inside i2: Our Innovation, Your Results - Supply Chain Leader ... Total Channel Management solutions as a service through the i2 Competency Center in India. A mix of on-site and off-shore services enabled a 24x7 planning operation. i2 process consultants in the areas of business, finance, IT systems, and channel qualification and management were located on site ... |
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Supply Chain Leader ... Environments by Gaurang Pandya and Venky Nayar Five key areas must be specifically addressed for such markets: organization, supply chain design, planning, demand shaping and managing transitions. The “Lean” Challenge in Demand-Driven Value Chains by Aamer Rehman and Kelly Thomas In the extended ... |
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Unlocking The Future: The New Analytics - Supply Chain Leader ... new solutions must be flexible and versatile enough to link to such commonly used tools as Microsoft® Excel spreadsheets, enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications and legacy systems. This linkage makes it possible to create a central repository for all information related to performance ... |
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Technology Update: Web Services Catalyst for Agility - Supply Chain Leader ... companies face in driving breakthrough supply chain management improvements is achieving cross-functional integration. The enterprise resource planning (ERP) movement—while offering improved standardization—actually exacerbated this challenge by offering monolithic, functionally oriented modules ... |
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A Holistic Approach to Forecast Optimization - Supply Chain Leader ... or no knowledge of how it will impact key business metrics. Why, then, do so many companies that have made significant investments in advanced planning and demand management practices continue to face these problems? Frequently, it is because they view forecasting as an independent and repetitive ... |
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Supply Chain Leader Issue 1 - About i2 - Supply Chain Management - i2 ... to i2 Supply Chain Visibility Columns Collaborative Material Management: New Systems Enable Synchronization Between Procurement and Material Planning, by Sharmistha Dubey Transportation Management: Best Practices in Global Logistics, by Razat Gaurav Departments CEO Perspective Looking to a New ... |
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Interviews - Supply Chain Leader ... James Champy By Victoria Cooper Dell 2.0: Becoming the Customer's Trusted Adviser. An interview with Richard L. Hunter By Victoria Cooper Planning at a Global Scale Pays Off for VF Corp. An interview with Ellen Martin By Victoria Cooper Buying it Right at Sprint. An interview with Michael Hahn ... |
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