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Posts about Operations Management

Nurturing Excellence: How Involvation Set Up the Supply Chain Learning Program at Rituals


Supply chain development is essential for a fast-growing brand like Rituals. Building on a long-term partnership, Involvation and Rituals launched the first Rituals Supply Chain Academy in 2023. Here, Jeroen Scheepers, Partner at Involvation, explores the Academy’s co-design around Rituals’ end-to-end supply chain, and why a supply chain...

Unlocking Potential: The Significance of Employee Development at Involvation's Value Chain Academy


Employee development is essential for strong supply chains — and for your organization’s business continuity and growth. “The supply chain is the backbone of an organization. You need to get all functions, but also suppliers and customers, involved to make impact across the whole chain,” explains Stefan Hoogervorst, director of Involvation’s...

Unlocking Success in Supply Chain Learning: The Involvation-Rituals Partnership


In 2023, Involvation and Rituals launched the brand’s first bespoke talent development initiatives to advance its supply chain. This was the latest phase in a long-standing, productive collaboration: Rituals first started working with Involvation in 2016, on supply chain and business technology projects. Here, Elise Broekhuisen, Head of Supply...

Improved end-to-end planning for better results in Cosun Beet Company


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.

5 ways to manage complexity in your supply chain


Today’s supply chains have become extremely complex, and many businesses are struggling to cope. The good news is that much – if not most – of that complexity has been self-created. And if you can create something yourself, you can also stop creating it.

The Wheel of Five: Eliminate waste of capacity, stock and time


To help organizations recognize and effectively deal with good and bad variability, Involvation has developed the Wheel of Five for Supply Chain Management. This is Part 4 in a series of five articles about the Wheel of Five.

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.

The power of resilience: how to cope with supply chain disruptions


It is now over a year ago since – with the global credit crisis still relatively fresh in people’s minds – the world suddenly went into lockdown. The COVID-19 virus created a crisis within many nations’ healthcare systems, plus the economy came close to meltdown: shops were forced to closed, factories shut down and supply chains suffered severe...

The Wheel of Five: Eliminate unnecessary variation in supply and demand


To help organizations recognize and effectively deal with good and bad variability, Involvation has developed the Wheel of Five for Supply Chain Management. This is the final part in the series of five articles about the Wheel of Five.

The Wheel of Five: Absorb variation with stock and time


To help organizations recognize and effectively deal with good and bad variability, Involvation has developed the Wheel of Five for Supply Chain Management. This second in a series of five cases about the tool examines absorbing variation. Of the five principles in the Wheel of Five, ‘Absorb variation with stock and/or time’ is possibly the one...