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I get a kick reading “prediction” articles both prior to the year start and then again after the year is complete...when it comes to predicting the very dynamic supply chain management industry, those after year reviews can be quite amusing.

Recently I got an email from the North Pole saying that Santa Claus wanted to talk with me...I will have to admit that when you get a request from the head of the elves it is not something you want to ignore. A phone call was set up for later that week.

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP): An integrated business management process through which an executive team continually achieves focus, alignment and synchronization among all functions of the organization.

This white paper reveals many of the common challenges and potential ways to overcome the wide gap between a best-in-class and the typical S&OP process in place today.

Logility, a leading provider of collaborative supply chain optimization and advanced retail planning solutions, has acquired privately-held Halo Business Intelligence, a San Diego-based supplier of advanced analytics and business intelligence solutions for the supply chain market.

This paper looks at what private label manufacturers can do to become more effective and organized to effectively compete with, more often than not, larger national brand manufacturers.

There is little room for error in private label manufacturing; to be successful, it takes a clear understanding of how to provide outstanding service levels for extremely demanding customers in a unique environment of low margins, proliferating SKUs, and multi-threaded supply chains.

Launch day supply of Apple's iPhone X was exhausted in mere minutes after the handset went up for sale early today but Apple's supply chain is rumored to only get about 20 million units delivered before the end of 2017.

Supplying holiday fireworks is challenging, supply chain professionals from thousands of different companies supplying consumable and non-consumable products have to consider past demand trends and predict their products’ demand especially for the US 4th of July holiday.

Your company’s inventory efficient frontier is a tradeoff curve between working capital and service level and represents the currently achievable service level at any corresponding inventory investment.

This is the fifth post in a series where we investigate some of the myths and mistruths around Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP).

The topic of today's post is one we hear often and industry research shows it is not going away fast enough, the reliance on spreadsheets and other less sophisticated solutions to manage the S&OP process.

This third in a series of posts that investigates some of the S&OP myths and mistruths and takes a look at one of the hot buttons in the industry; real-time response planning... S&OP the right solution to manage your real-time respond planning needs?

In this second post in our series of S&OP myths we highlight the need for flexibility in the S&OP process to facilitate a robust and repeatable process that can support your company’s business objectives.

This is the first of a series of five posts that investigates common myths and mistruths I have heard over the last 20+ years regarding Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP); hopefully, by exploring these myths we can generate a greater understanding of what S&OP is and what it is not.