Sat.Nov 05, 2016 - Fri.Nov 11, 2016

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The S&OP Pulse check 2016

Supply Chain Trend

The S&OP pulse check has been a yearly recurring S&OP survey since 2010 and is the only one of its kind. The 11 questions require 5 minutes of your time to create some great S&OP insights. Follow this link to go to the survey. The survey is open until early December and results will be published half December on: Twitter: @sctrends. LinkedIn: Supply Chain Trend group.

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The Secret, FREE Trick to Improve Carrier Tender Acceptance on ANY TMS!

Supply Chain Collaborator

You’ve implemented a TMS to (among other reasons) automate the tendering process. If you’re like many shippers, you’ve set up a low-cost automatic tendering sequence in each lane. The cascading automation of the low-cost tendering process is explicitly designed to get your loads accepted, in the timeliest manner and by the lowest cost carrier available.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #2

Supply Chain Trend

Introduction. In the last 30 years S&OP improved performance in many businesses. However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. Whatever maturity model or consultancy support companies use, S&OP seems to get stuck. Worse, overall S&OP development and progress seems to have stalled.