As supply chain and operations leaders work to return to “normal” patterns of demand fulfillment, it’s clear that absolutely nothing is business as usual. No company progressed through late Q1 and Q2 ...

Dr. Cyrus Hadavi is the CEO of Adexa, a leading AI-powered supply chain planning company with Fortune class clients in five continents. Many, if not most, companies implementing S&OP (sales and ...

Celebrations are part of the learning process in organizations. Think of them as just a component of the education plan. Calibrated celebrations obviously depend on the appetite of management and the ...

As organizations grapple with ongoing economic uncertainty, many supply chain planning (SCP) leaders will face organizational resource constraints and competing business priorities. As leaders ...

Our recent and ongoing global crisis has affected nearly every business on the planet in a negative way, and the speed of change in our value chains has caught many unprepared. Unprecedented ...

For obvious reasons, customers are much more difficult to manage than are suppliers. The linkage between the S&OP processes, in good supply chain management, is no less valuable, however. There are no ...

Sales and Operations Planning consistently ranks as one of the top three priorities for management teams. According to industry research, a strong repeatable S&OP process can: Improve Working Capital ...

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) sits at the center of modern supply chain and logistics businesses as a critical tool that aligns demand, supply, and financial goals into a single, disciplined ...

S&OP, the process used to match supply and demand and align business strategy, consistently ranks as a top priority for management teams. But companies often spend three to five years to reach ...

Identifying gaps in sales and operations planning (S&OP) is critical to achieving the value of demand-driven supply networks. There are practical methods to uncover misalignments that can hinder ...

I’ve always thought the delivery performance metric best reflects how well integrated the various functions are and how interdependent they all are if we expect to consistently perform at a high level ...

In particular, tariffs and related trade fights can inject extreme uncertainty, complexity, and volatility into already fragile supply chain networks, with impacts extending well into the future. In ...