Disruptions to the supply chain If any event reveals the need for resilient supply chains, it’s COVID-19. The disruptions shook every industry, including automobile. Early 2020 forecasts projected a significant drop in new vehicle sales, but ultimately turned out much better with only a 15%

Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE) is a highly beneficial process in optimizing how you strategize supply chains. This process primarily serves to keep S&OP goals on track, integrating with the planning process to drive daily and weekly supply and demand fluctuations. Fueling the success

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) can be painful. It is additive work on top of the day-to-day activities that use most, if not all, of the available human capacity. It causes anxiety because, in addition to the sunk costs of time and energy, the potential impact of any errors and revisions g

What a year it has been! Glad to see the back of it… ‘New normal’… ‘Online schooling’… ‘Have you been vaccinated yet?’ Pandemic… Unprecedented… Zoom fatigue… three-day delivery isn’t fast enough… I shudder

Managing supply chain disruptions and building resiliency is the priority for many companies in a post-pandemic world. Over the past year, we have seen the impact of supply chain shocks from the U.S.-China trade war and the COVID-19 pandemic to the more recent Suez Canal blockage; these shocks place