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S&OP is not ‘software driven’ To achieve success, the implementation of Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) requires a change in an organisation’s culture towards greater collaboration, managing the implementation of a new process and third, implementation of a software application. The previous blogpost discussed why your organisation should implant S&OP as the ‘heart’ of the business. This blogpost discusses applications … Read More

Continuing disruptions Ever since COVID19 appeared, there has been much comment in media channels about the need to have resilience within an economy, in organisations and through their supply chains. Recognising the challenge is a good start, but the need is to identify which step on the road to resilience should be the prime project. It is now good policy … Read More

Supply Chains of your business A reader has asked which of the many elements of supply chains should be emphasised as companies take steps to change the objective of supply chains from ‘cost down’ to ‘value add’, in an era of disruptions? While each business will select its own list of short-term ‘to do’ actions to achieve improvements, there should … Read More

Inventory for dependent items The role of Inventory is to provide a buffer that recognises variability in demand for items and the lead times required to meet those demands. Variability in supply and its lead times is also a factor, due to disruptions through supply chains. The disruptions in supply chains are likely to continue, especially with the influence of … Read More

ABC inventory approach Inventory is too often considered as one lump of cost, rather than as a collection of individual stock keeping units (SKUs), each with their own pattern of demand and supply. To provide some differentiation between high and low selling items, a familiar process is to group SKUs into ABC groups. This is based on observations by the … Read More