Our client, Cosun Beet Company (formerly known as Suiker Unie), is one of the most efficient sugar beet processing companies in Europe. They develop, produce and sell sugar and sugar specialities for the bulk industry and Consumer Products industry. All components of the sugar beet are used, nothing is wasted.
Now that the finality of SAP APO is a real prospect, many companies are thinking about what to do next. In this blog, rather than providing advice about specific solutions such as Kinaxis, Anaplan, O9, SAP IBP or other options from the Gartner Magic Quadrant, I highlight four considerations that you should bear in mind.
Today’s supply chains must be resilient enough to cope with numerous disruptions, from the energy crisis to geopolitical tensions. The ‘new normal’ places new demands on organizations. Supply chain leaders need to make their supply chains more resilient. But how should they go about that? The solution lies in taking a holistic view of the...
If your company is running a robust S&OP process, then this short article should be worth reading. If not, then you may want to stop and focus on the basics first: realise short and midterm demand-supply balancing based on a demand planning process that delivers solid results. In this case you are still in good company by the way, as many...
In the first blog in this series, Eight steps to evolve S&OP into IBP, we introduced a number of IBP building blocks. Useful, as we should eat the IBP elephant one bite at a time. Some of these building blocks will be a lot of work in themselves, so trying to design, build and implement them all in one big bang will certainly fail. This building...
More and more companies are finding that their monthly Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) meetings largely revolve around the acute supply chain problems. As a result, they have hardly any time left to discuss medium-term issues. That’s why, during a recentWebinar Wednesday, consulting firm Involvation advocated an additional process that deals...
Creating a resilient supply chain is the key theme for 2023. During a recent webinar, Supply Chain Media discussed this topic with premium partners Chainalytics and Involvation. An important conclusion: those who want to make their supply chain more resilient must take action at strategic, tactical and operational levels: “Many companies are only...
Fashion company Stichd has an extremely complex planning process. To help the company get a grip on its multi-dimensional supply chain, Involvation set up an advanced planning system consisting of no fewer than eight planning layers. During Supply Chain Media’s S&OP Selection Day, it became apparent that this makes Stichd much more flexible.
With clients, we regularly encounter S&OP meetings where demand planners are challenged by the Sales director: “you present me a growth factor in the demand plan that is based on an analysis of mere historical data. So, how is the growth that will come from realizing the sales strategy incorporated?” And the ultimate consequence of this feedback...
Many companies are starting to enter a new phase in digital planning by applying machine learning. One of them is international coffee and tea manufacturer JacobsDouweEgberts (JDE). With its existing SAP APO tool due to be phased out, the company has been forced to look for a new planning solution. During a live and interactive session organized...