Selecting a new Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) solution has major implications for a company. A ‘wrong’ or suboptimal choice can have long-lasting consequences for both the implementation project and the business itself. The potential impact, whether positive or negative, is generally substantially greater than any time and money spent on a...
To help organizations recognize and successfully deal with good and bad variability, Involvation has developed the Wheel of Five for Supply Chain Management. This article provides an introduction to the tool. In many boardrooms, the mantra is to improve service while reducing costs. That’s easier said than done, especially when forecasts are...
To help organizations recognize and effectively deal with good and bad variability, Involvation has developed the Wheel of Five for Supply Chain Management. Following on from the introduction, this article outlines the first case study illustrating a Wheel of Five guideline: ‘Avoid overload’. If it’s no longer possible to guarantee on-time...
This summer Eindhoven Airport in the Netherlands hit the headlines for the wrong reasons. For the duration of an entire morning, no flights were able to depart from the airport – which is also a military base – because of issues in the military air traffic control tower. Stranded passengers were forced to wait outside in the heat because there...
At the start of the coronavirus crisis, when the nationwide lockdown came into force, the daily snarl-ups on Dutch roads suddenly vanished overnight. The lockdown has since been lifted and employees are increasingly going back into the office. Although many people are still working from home, figures from the National Data Warehouse for Traffic...
Supply chains are still upside down since the coronavirus outbreak. While a lot of products are almost impossible to get hold of, demand for many other products has declined and sometimes even completely evaporated.
The coronavirus has turned the world upside down and will continue to have a major impact on people’s personal and working lives for the foreseeable future. Some are even claiming that coronavirus is a game changer in the business world, although some sectors will of course be more strongly affected than others. One thing is for sure: many supply...
GlobalAutoIndustry.com’s latest Audio Interview “Managing Actual Volatile Demand in the Global Automotive Supply Chain” features Egge Haak of Involvation. Involvation have teamed up with Netherlands-based Flostock on a series of Private Webinars on “Taming the Bullwhip” for the global automotive supply chain. In the 13-minute Audio Interview,...
The logistics sector is one of the economic areas in which The Netherlands has a world-wide leading position for decades. In 2010 the Dutch Government appointed the Logistics sector as one of the nine Dutch Topsectors with a focus for further development to strengthen it’s position. In TKI Dinalog (The Dutch Institute for Advanced Logistics) the...
It is a widespread misconception that the bullwhip effect is caused by irrational behaviour. In fact, it also occurs when planners react completely rationally. To prevent the bullwhip effect, you first need to understand what causes it.It is such a shame that the bullwhip effect is blamed on irrational behaviour. Moreover, it is not particularly...