Take These (Supply) Chains From my Heart – Planning for Valentine’s day.
Introduction - Well, hello
Supply chain planning may seem oh so unromantic - what with all the talk of S&OP, and IBP and all of our...
Becoming the Demand Driven Adaptive Enterprise
The DDAE model has a defined development path for companies to achieve increasing levels of success through their demand driven transformation. This path has five distinct stages. The entire...
Does Your ROI for DSCP Investment Include a Factor for Happiness?
It is easy for those of us involved in technology sectors to become completely enamored with the technology itself. We are correspondingly driven to calculating some quantitative measurement of...
MTO, MTS & ATO: Challenges & Opportunities
In the manufacturing area, organizations have always been facing difficulties to manage their activity depending on their business model.
Excess inventoryService level under expectationsExcessive supply chain...
The DDAE Model – Metrics, Ranges and Next Steps
Prerequisite #3: Flow-Based Metrics.
The DDAE model uses different metric emphases within each of the operational, tactical and strategic relevant ranges to promote and protect flow today and into the future. Operational...
The Demand Driven Adaptive Enterprise Model
The Demand Driven Adaptive Enterprise model is a management and operational model designed to enable enterprises to adapt to complex and volatile environments. The model utilizes a constant system of innovation...
Manufacturers of Luxury Products Must Synchronize Their Supply Chains
Read the first part here.
Manufacturers who produce luxury or high end items in a variety of categories face many challenges. Raw materials can be expensive and have specialty geographic sources. Production...
Luxury Products Manufacturers Face Challenging Supply Chains
Supply and demand. The two drivers of almost all businesses. Manufacturers produce products (the supply) and consumers purchase those products (the demand). When you analyze a manufacturers business from top to...
Bring Your Supply Chain to the Next Level With the Cloud
There comes a time during the discussion about implementing a new advanced planning system when the question gets asked, “What hardware do we need to run it on?” This is typically...
Is the Purchase of S&OP/IBP Software Keeping you Awake at Night?
According to Gartner, the adoption of supply chain software continues to accelerate. That has confirmed my gut feeling and spurred me to put some thoughts on paper. There is indeed a...