Sales & Operations Planning

In this paper, we detail how an integrated business planning solution needs to include services for sales & operations planning, sustainability, and business continuity along with risk management for today's globally sourced supply chains.

Listen in as Jonathan Karelse, CEO of NorthFind Management, discusses how our biases can impact the accuracy of our demand plans. SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts.

Even after the dust has settled, there are eight steps an organization needs to reach and maintain a resilient and agile state in order to absorb the shock of disruption in order to adapt, even to something as serious and devastating as a pandemic.

In this paper, we explain why your digital twin needs to be a sandbox extension of your supply network’s planning & operations platform – one that applies different statistical, machine learning, and AI algorithms along with various workflow options to solve problems.

Absolutely it should! The point of a digital twin is to analyze business questions - like improving node-to-node movements across your supply network, or driving policies that improve the customer experience - and solving all the problems that present themselves across your supply chain.

This research report addresses the need for supply chain teams to react and recover, from a planning maturity stance, covering perceptions on planning effectiveness, time allocated to data collection, and the use of scenarios.

Traditionally, supply chain teams have focused on having perfect data to arrive at accurate supply chain plans, but in today’s uncertain world, striving for accuracy is no longer enough.

A report recently published by AIMMS shows how supply chain teams perceive the accuracy of their forecast and discover the tools and techniques they are using to upgrade the forecasting process.

In this report, you will find helpful benchmarks and insights offered by your peers on the latest demand forecasting techniques, forecast granularity and periodicity, and expectations for the future.

When you go beyond sales and operations planning (S&OP) to a higher level of coordination and efficiency across functions and planning horizons, you will have started an IBP revolution that will benefit your entire organization far into the future.

AIMMS's supply chain analytics solution helps HEINEKEN streamlines data management.

Linking real-time demand with a timely supply response allows companies to commit with confidence and profitably capture growth opportunities in today’s volatile markets.

With only 42% of companies rating their S&OP process as effective, we asked the question, what if, using powerful analytics, you could get insights into of all your low and high margin products and find opportunities for improvement on the fly?

The food & beverage industry faces a lengthy list of unique challenges from long raw material lead-times and volatile commodity pricing to safety and quality requirements combined with high demand uncertainty, frequent new product introductions, perishability and complex manufacturing constraints.

Digital transformation is one of the top concerns and areas of focus for C-Level executives, and there is a growing awareness within senior managers that transforming supply chain planning capabilities to take advantage of the emerging technologies will provide a necessary competitive imperative.

A forecast is more than a projection of future business; it is a request for product (or a request for resources to ensure supply of a product). Forecast accuracy is crucial for achieving both customer service goals as well as ensuring proper utilization of resources to drive profitable business growth.

This guide addresses how the right enabling technology helps you improve margins and get more "Aha" moments during S&OP meetings.

Boon Edam was looking to shift towards a combined business model of “made to stock” and “assembly to order” - where modules which could be placed into a configuration requested by the customer would be ready for production.

In this white paper, we explain how by explicitly linking decisions with the most important corporate metrics, Enterprise Optimization™ enables S&OP alignment with corporate strategy and facilitates value capture.

This article is intended to provide guiding principles for Sales and Operations Planning S&OP managers and their partners to help them better understand which best practices are possible through what-if analyses.