--- title: Articles - Involvation | Dennis Pronk description: As a supply chain consultancy we share our knowledge on supply chain design and management. Find out more through our articles, reports and insights. --- - [English](https://articles.involvation.com/author/dennis-pronk) - [Nederlands](https://articles.involvation.com/nl/author/dennis-pronk) [![logo involvation](https://articles.involvation.com/hs-fs/hubfs/logo_Involvation_payoff_en.png?width=234&height=48&name=logo_Involvation_payoff_en.png "logo involvation")](https://www.involvation.com/) - [Consultancy & Implementation](https://www.involvation.com/consultancy-implementation/) - [Supply Chain Network Design](https://www.involvation.com/nl/advies-realisatie/sc-network-design/) - [S&OP/IBP](https://info.involvation.com/sales-and-operations-planning) - [Supply Chain Resilience](https://info.involvation.com/supply-chain-resilience) - [Resilience Quickscan](https://info.involvation.com/resilience-quickscan-how-resilient-is-your-supply-chain) - [Forecasting & Inventory Management](https://www.involvation.com/consultancy-implementation/forecasting-inventory-management/) - [Production & Process management](https://www.involvation.com/consultancy-implementation/production-control/) - [Learning & Development](https://www.involvation.com/learning-development-2/) - [The Value Chain Academy](https://www.involvation.com/learning-development-2/the-value-chain-academy/) - [Serious gaming](https://www.involvation.com/learning-development-2/serious-gaming/) - [Our training approach](https://www.involvation.com/learning-development-2/approach/) - [Our areas of training](https://www.involvation.com/learning-development-2/our-areas-training/) - [Interim Management](https://www.involvation.com/interim-management/) - [For Interim Managers](https://www.involvation.com/interim-management/voor-interim-managers/) - [For Clients](https://www.involvation.com/interim-management/voor-opdrachtgevers/) - [Our assignments](https://www.involvation.com/our-assignments/) - Per area - [Supply Chain Strategy & Design](https://www.involvation.com/our-assignments/sc-strategy-redesign/) - [S&OP/IBP](https://www.involvation.com/our-assignments/sop/) - [Forecasting & Inventory Management](https://www.involvation.com/our-assignments/stock-control/) - [Production & Process management](https://www.involvation.com/our-assignments/production-control/) - [Learning & Development](https://www.involvation.com/our-assignments/learning-development/) - [Interim Management](https://www.involvation.com/our-assignments/interim-management/) - [Demand Driven SCM](https://www.involvation.com/our-assignments/demand-driven-scm/) - Per industry - [Mechanical engineering](https://www.involvation.com/our-assignments/mechanical-engineering/) - [Construction](https://www.involvation.com/our-assignments/construction/) - [High tech & automotive](https://www.involvation.com/our-assignments/high-tech-automotive/) - [Energy & Utilities](https://www.involvation.com/energy-utilities/) - [Chemicals](https://www.involvation.com/chemicals/) - [Pharma & life sciences](https://www.involvation.com/pharma-life-sciences/) - [Agri business](https://www.involvation.com/agri-business/) - [Consumer products & retail](https://www.involvation.com/consumer-products-retail/) - [Customer stories](https://articles.involvation.com/tag/customer-stories) - [About us](https://www.involvation.com/about-us/) - [Who we are](https://www.involvation.com/about-us/who-we-are/) - [How we work](https://www.involvation.com/about-us/how-we-work/) - [Partner team](https://www.involvation.com/about-us/partnerteam/) - [Job Vacancies](https://www.involvation.com/about-us/job-vacancies/) - [Contact](https://www.involvation.com/about-us/contact) - [Publications](https://articles.involvation.com) - [Articles](https://articles.involvation.com) - [Downloads](https://info.involvation.com/download-overview) - [Events](https://info.involvation.com/event-overview) # Dennis Pronk - [All](https://articles.involvation.com) - [S&OP/IBP](https://articles.involvation.com/tag/sop-ibp) - [Operations Management](https://articles.involvation.com/tag/operations-management) - [Resilience](https://articles.involvation.com/tag/resilience) - [Digital planning](https://articles.involvation.com/tag/digital-planning) - [Learning & development](https://articles.involvation.com/tag/learning-development) - [Inventory management](https://articles.involvation.com/tag/inventory-management) - [Network Design](https://articles.involvation.com/tag/network-design) [![Powering the Transition: Why Stedin Chose S&OP](https://articles.involvation.com/hubfs/Banner%20Blog_Stedin.png)](https://articles.involvation.com/why-stedin-chose-sop) ## [Powering the Transition: Why Stedin Chose S&OP](https://articles.involvation.com/why-stedin-chose-sop) For residents of the Randstad region, Stedin is a familiar name. As the regional grid operator for Utrecht, most of South Holland, and—more recently—Zeeland, Stedin plays a key role in enabling the Dutch energy transition. The challenge? The grid must be expanded at record speed, but there aren’t always enough people or resources to meet that... Dennis Pronk [Read more](https://articles.involvation.com/why-stedin-chose-sop) [![AI in Planning: Do You Trust the Algorithm with Your Inventory?](https://articles.involvation.com/hubfs/Banner%20Blog.png)](https://articles.involvation.com/ai-in-planning) ## [AI in Planning: Do You Trust the Algorithm with Your Inventory?](https://articles.involvation.com/ai-in-planning) Imagine this: the planning system decides to send your entire stock of hand soap to a DC in Zwolle… right when there’s a big promotion running at a major retailer in the south. No one saw it coming. Trust is gone. One wrong move and you’re back to square one: Excel open, AI off. Dennis Pronk [Read more](https://articles.involvation.com/ai-in-planning) [![Scrum or waterfall: what’s best for your planning organization?](https://articles.involvation.com/hubfs/Blog%20images/Ontwerp%20zonder%20titel%20(10).jpg)](https://articles.involvation.com/scrum-or-waterfall-planning-organization) ## [Scrum or waterfall: what’s best for your planning organization?](https://articles.involvation.com/scrum-or-waterfall-planning-organization) Digital planning is high on the agenda for many IT and supply chain directors. They often ask themselves ‘What’s the next step?’, ‘Which tooling should we use?’ and ‘How should we tackle the implementation?’ – and they usually consider those questions in that order. I would like to suggest reversing the order of the questions. First ask yourself... Dennis Pronk [Read more](https://articles.involvation.com/scrum-or-waterfall-planning-organization) [![The Wheel of Five: Manage predictable variation with effective decision-making](https://articles.involvation.com/hubfs/Blog%20images/Overzichtspagina/The-wheel-of-Five_EN_Chase-variation_450x250px.png)](https://articles.involvation.com/the-wheel-of-five-manage-predictable-variation-with-effective-decision-making) ## [The Wheel of Five: Manage predictable variation with effective decision-making](https://articles.involvation.com/the-wheel-of-five-manage-predictable-variation-with-effective-decision-making) To help organizations recognize and effectively deal with good and bad variability, Involvation has developed theWheel of Fivefor Supply Chain Management. This third part in a series of five articles is about effective decision-making. Dennis Pronk [Read more](https://articles.involvation.com/the-wheel-of-five-manage-predictable-variation-with-effective-decision-making) [![Challenges for S&OP and IBP in chemical industry](https://articles.involvation.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/sector-chemie-300x200-1.jpg)](https://articles.involvation.com/challenges-sop-ibp-chemical-industry) ## [Challenges for S&OP and IBP in chemical industry](https://articles.involvation.com/challenges-sop-ibp-chemical-industry) In the chemical industry, the average S&OP process has a relatively high degree of maturity compared with other sectors. Nevertheless, chemical companies still face certain challenges when progressing from S&OP to IBP. We distinguish between the two as follows: S&OP is the decision-making process for ensuring the feasibility of the commercial... Dennis Pronk [Read more](https://articles.involvation.com/challenges-sop-ibp-chemical-industry) [![Incorporating IoT into blockchain will add value in the supply chain](https://articles.involvation.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Blockchain-voet-water.png)](https://articles.involvation.com/blockchain-add-value-supply-chain) ## [Incorporating IoT into blockchain will add value in the supply chain](https://articles.involvation.com/blockchain-add-value-supply-chain) The technology behind bitcoin is gradually finding its way into the supply chain domain; pilot applications of blockchain are hitting the headlines almost every week. For many of these pilot cases, however, it is still hard to see the added value. In my view, the added value of these pilots primarily lies in helping the industry to understand... Dennis Pronk [Read more](https://articles.involvation.com/blockchain-add-value-supply-chain) [![Amusement parks become Demand Driven](https://articles.involvation.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/pretpark2-300x225-1.png)](https://articles.involvation.com/amusement-parks-become-demand-driven) ## [Amusement parks become Demand Driven](https://articles.involvation.com/amusement-parks-become-demand-driven) Sometimes you learn about new ideas that are so logical that you think by yourself: why did I not come up with this myself? Recently I heard about a new app that enables you to pay for your visit to an amusement park, based on the time spent in the park. So as a visitor you no longer pay a fixed fee – which in the past forced you to spend the... Dennis Pronk [Read more](https://articles.involvation.com/amusement-parks-become-demand-driven) [![S&OP and IBP: About resolutions and development plans](https://articles.involvation.com/hubfs/voornemen.png)](https://articles.involvation.com/sop-and-ibp-resolutions) ## [S&OP and IBP: About resolutions and development plans](https://articles.involvation.com/sop-and-ibp-resolutions) A new year is always an opportunity for a fresh start. When making my new year’s resolutions for 2018, I first took stock of what I am happy/unhappy with in my daily life, before deciding what I want to change and how to do so. In our assessments, we basically apply the same logic when supporting our customers in their journey from Sales &... Dennis Pronk [Read more](https://articles.involvation.com/sop-and-ibp-resolutions) [![S&OP: How to make it sustainable?](https://articles.involvation.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Duurzaam-SOP-1.png)](https://articles.involvation.com/sop-how-to-make-it-sustainable) ## [S&OP: How to make it sustainable?](https://articles.involvation.com/sop-how-to-make-it-sustainable) Implementation of a Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process is often considered as an important change in the way an organisation works. Therefore, an implementation project should take a solid approach that addresses all the success factors involved in that change. But the last step in the change approach is often neglected:... Dennis Pronk [Read more](https://articles.involvation.com/sop-how-to-make-it-sustainable) [![Checklist benefits S&OP](https://articles.involvation.com/hubfs/Blog%20images/Overzichtspagina/illustration-Why-SOP.jpeg)](https://articles.involvation.com/checklist-benefits-sop) ## [Checklist benefits S&OP](https://articles.involvation.com/checklist-benefits-sop) Some companies have a well-developed sales & operations planning (S&OP) process as a safeguard for structured decision-making. Those companies take an integral view of supply and demand, including the financial impact of mediumterm risks. The managers of such companies make results-based decisions and are truly at the helm. Supply Chain Media and... 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