It is not unusual to observe businesses of all kinds taking the view of their supply chain and manufacturing networks as a necessary evil. In most if not all cases, the externally facing ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quantzig, a leader in delivering scalable analytics solutions and data science services, today announced the completion of its recent article that sheds light on the role of ...

The environment in which chief supply chain officers find themselves has changed significantly in recent years, but most organizations have failed to adjust their approach to planning. The ...

In my last conversation with Roddy—when he could still talk—was on the need to define outside-in processes. Twelve years ago, Roddy and I worked together at the same research firm. We often ...

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) has the potential to promote visibility within the enterprise and foster collaboration among business functions. However, the functions involved in the S&OP effort ...

Business leaders aim to build predictability into every aspect of operations, especially the supply chain. Traditionally, ...

Cardinal Health’s senior vice president of global logistics, said of their implementation of the Kinaxis’ supply chain planning (SCP) solution, “I was scared! I put my name on the line.” He added, “we ...

The supply chain planning process hasn’t changed much over the last 10 years to 20 years. It’s still about orchestrating the many interconnected activities and steps that go into optimizing the flow ...

SINGAPORE & SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UTAC Holdings Ltd. (UTAC), a global semiconductor test and assembly services provider, has selected to digitally transform its supply chain planning ...

The use of spreadsheets for ad-hoc data integration is the bane of the modern enterprise. Spreadsheets have their uses as a temporary workaround, but there are multiple downsides to embedding them in ...

This is a revised column from one that Dr. Chaman Jain, the editor of the Journal of Business Forecasting (JBF), recently asked me to write. It discussed the relationship between strategic and ...