... Supply chain planning roles and skills are changing. When addressing this, supply chain planning leaders should use this Toolkit to explain change drivers, identify future roles and facilitate their teams by defining their desired career paths and understanding the required competencies to get there ...
Analyst(s): Brenda Westbrook
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... Organizations face stalled initiatives and unmet inventory reduction goals due to inadequate readiness for change. This research provides supply chain planning leaders with practical steps to close readiness gaps for effective inventory modeling and enable sustainable inventory improvement. Overview I ...
... Facilitating an effective executive sales and operations planning meeting can be challenging due to diverse attendance and complex content. Supply chain planning leaders can use a strategic one-pager to capture key metrics, link cause and effect across functions, visualize performance and drive info ...
... Supply chain planning leaders often struggle to create strategic plans which directly support business objectives and drive value. This guide helps planning leaders create a forward-looking, aligned strategic plan that sets clear objectives and actions to support business and supply chain goals. Over ...
... Supply chain planning leaders spend long hours establishing and improving planning processes with a strong focus on process discipline and technology enablement. Supply chain planning leaders must apply the same rigor to cultural change to succeed in enabling planning processes through the right beh ...
... Most companies with formal demand-planning processes measure forecast error. Few use the results to drive actionable plans to address the errors’ root causes. Supply chain planning leaders can use this research to understand how to use forecast error measures to improve demand planning. Overview Intro ...
... Traditional training fails to address supply chain planners’ evolving skill needs as it often overemphasizes theoretical concepts at the expense of experience-based learning. This Toolkit for planning leaders provides on-the-job learning activities with targeted exercises that build key competencies ...
... Deploying an S&OP process that drives decision making and delivers value to the organization goes beyond just establishing the mechanics of each step. Supply chain planning leaders can use these design principles to lay out an S&OP process that aligns with decision rights across the organization. Ove ...
... Achieving Level 4 maturity is essential for organizations seeking competitive advantage. Overcoming cultural, process and technology barriers is not optional — it’s the key to driving sustainable, profitable growth. Supply chain planning leaders can use this research to navigate pitfalls and reach L ...