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Sales and Operations Planning: The Interpersonal Element

Logistics Bureau

What matters most is how effectively the people involved in the process collaborate and overcome the silo mentality prevalent in organisations with multiple functions and business units. S&OP is ostensibly a numbers game, of course. The Supply Chain Head. The Executive Sponsor. However, it is a vital preparation activity.

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Industry View: Interview with EXCHAiNGE 2018 Speaker

Logistics Business Magazine

This obstructs cross-departmental project collaboration. Building diverse teams requires an up-front investment of time, of course. Bohlmann: When processes change, there will always be some people who won’t come on board, of course. I found your real-world exercises in past years very enlightening. That’s to be expected.

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How to Select the Right KPIs for Supply Chain Benchmarking

Logistics Bureau

Of course, you can have as many other metrics as you like, but the KPIs are the ones that should form a catalyst for action. If your KPIs are common ones, it shouldn’t be a problem, of course. The right KPIs will give you information, which, when acted upon, will move your supply chain closer to your performance goals.

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Logistics interoperability, deterrence and resilience – why working as allies matters now more than ever

Logistics in War

It is easier, of course, to provide a case for improved logistics interoperability than it is to deliver it. All this must be exercised; it is noteworthy that the Australian and U.S. armies do not presently share a major strategic logistics exercise in which to consider how they might respond, together, in a crisis.

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Logistics interoperability, deterrence and resilience – why working as allies matters now more than ever

Logistics in War

It is easier, of course, to provide a case for improved logistics interoperability than it is to deliver it. All this must be exercised; it is noteworthy that the Australian and U.S. armies do not presently share a major strategic logistics exercise in which to consider how they might respond, together, in a crisis.

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Modeling brewing capacity to drive cost savings at HEINEKEN

AIMMS

But it had its limitations, of course. It makes a complex exercise, that used to be painstaking and manual, much easier to perform. A nice thing to mention is that we presented the AIMMS model and Power BI solution to our Chief Supply Chain Officer recently. To mention a few, version control was hard.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

They not only have to present the models to demonstrate their understanding, but they also have to relate the models to real companies. Darren Prokop, University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA): As in the academic world in general, there is a trend to online course delivery. But hard skills must be coupled with soft skills.