VR escape room
How can companies find out whether – and how – they can use cool new technologies such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) in their supply chains? There are already several practical applications …
Blogs
Successful sourcing in China using the START model
“Catch the goat when it’s passing” is one of my favourite Chinese sayings, and it is particularly apt when you’re looking to source new products or materials in China. Even after conducting thorough desk research …
Siri, can you improve my OTIF?
It is amazing how fast things are developing and how quickly the number of options is expanding: Apple’s Siri, Google’s Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa, Alibaba’s Genie, etc. Who would have believed ten years ago that a …
S&OP motivation
Why is sales & operations planning (S&OP) such a difficult decision-making process? How hard can it be to hold a product review, then a demand review, a supply review and a business review in the …
Building strong relations through innovation & co-creation in China
Design thinking can help SMEs to improve their attractiveness to Chinese business partners. And innovation and co-creation can save companies up to €200,000 and ten weeks of product development work. How? Heidi Larsen reveals all …
Learning by doing in S&OP takes forever
When scanning through a whole set of recent S&OP publications, I noticed that the vast majority were focused either on processes and systems or on the creation of buy-in. Two important aspects, obviously, but it …
Supply chain start-ups
Why are mature companies so interested in start-ups lately? Large organizations are seeing the arrival of start-ups rapidly changing the world around them, while they themselves have become too big and bureaucratic to act quickly. …
How action ready are the people in your S&OP process?
Last week I found myself in a roomful of supply chain professionals where, as Involvation, we’d been invited to chair a discussion on ‘S&OP: achieving and maintaining S&OP effectiveness… and keeping all disciplines on board’. …
Creating high-performance supply chain teams using the Kraljic model
Even though the era of ‘procurement through power’ is well over, I still see a lot of purchasers getting lost or sidetracked in the wrong quadrant of the Kraljic model in their quest for good …
Game of Chains
The traditional boundaries between sectors and industries are blurring, or even vanishing, due to the increasing digitalization of business globally. It's now much easier for new digital players to enter - and completely transform - …
