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 …
Blogs
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’. …
The Sixth Wave & the Creative Destruction Triple Whammy
"...the agricultural revolution.. took thousands of years to play itself out. [The industrial revolution] took a mere three hundred years. Today history is even more accelerative, and it is likely that the Third Wave will …
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 - …
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: The Automation of the Knowledge Worker
Since Alan Turing posed the question ‘can machines think?‘ in 1950, the concept and perils of artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent machines has been discussed for decades, mostly in works of science fiction. Yet it’s …
