
Challenge your Paradigms: 3 Supply Chain Roadblocks
We are looking at the wrong end of the problem.

We are looking at the wrong end of the problem.
What is the purpose of starting a Sales and Operations Planning process? For many, S&OP is a process to get information to flow between various parts of the business, the most obvious being Sales and Operations (hence the name). The premise, I believe, is that if Operations knows what is happening in Sales, then they will be able to respond. Great starting point. At some point, perhaps it worked well.

Forecast Accuracy has been a topic of discussion for decades. Just from my own time in supply chain (20 plus years), it’s always been front

On a recent trip, I tried to remain cashless. No need to exchange money. Just use credit cards everywhere. I even used my phone “wallet”

Forecast Accuracy has been a topic of discussion for decades. Just from my own time in Supply chain (20 plus years), it’s always been front

The most common situation in business. Sales: “We ran out of inventory. You need to keep enough on hand so we can sell.” Purchasing: “We

This is the way we’ve always done it. We hear it all the time. It’s often given as the most dangerous sentence in all the

The biggest lie we have ever been told: It’s not that simple. Why do we in Supply Chain accept the chaos? We complain about it,

This is a common discussion for me. People are convinced that safety stock will help them to achieve inventory management goals. But when I ask

The Demand Driven MRP methodology begins with Positioning. Inventory Positioning specifically. What is so special about positioning? It is the key to solving one of

All of us are limited by what we can imagine. And that is often influenced by what we have seen or how we have worked