As supply chain and operations leaders work to return to “normal” patterns of demand fulfillment, it’s clear that absolutely nothing is business as usual. No company progressed through late Q1 and Q2 ...

Our recent and ongoing global crisis has affected nearly every business on the planet in a negative way, and the speed of change in our value chains has caught many unprepared. Unprecedented ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. Uncertainty sends companies ...

Let’s talk about the Super Bowl. But first, let’s talk about sales and operations planning (S&OP). To optimize their financial, customer service and sustainability goals, companies need an S&OP ...

Sales and Operations Planning consistently ranks as one of the top three priorities for management teams. According to industry research, a strong repeatable S&OP process can: Improve Working Capital ...

As organizations grapple with ongoing economic uncertainty, many supply chain planning (SCP) leaders will face organizational resource constraints and competing business priorities. As leaders ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY James Barlow Just as the ...

Sales and operations planning is a living, breathing process that naturally grows and evolves over time. Nevertheless, while it’s expected that companies would adapt their S&OP processes to meet the ...

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) has been around since the late 1980s. However, still only a handful of companies are successful in this cross-functional process that “integrates demand, supply, ...