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By John Westerveld From the blog: http://www.21stcenturysupplychain.com I came across this article by Colleen Crum, a principle with Oliver Wight Americas. In it, she outlines a compelling argument about how critical leadership involvement is to S&…
May 27
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By John Westerveld From the blog: http://www.21stcenturysupplychain.com I was at an event last week where I met a guy who works for an electronics contract manufacturer. He was telling me about a physical inventory they were doing at the plant. App…
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By John Westerveld From the blog: http://www.21stcenturysupplychain.com 3D TVs were the big story at the CES show in January and now I'm starting to see them show up at Best Buy. While I tend to be in the early majority of the technology adoption cu…
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By John Westerveld From the blog: http://www.21stcenturysupplychain.com The @Risk blog (an excellent blog, by the way) has an interesting article asking "Do you have a Supply Chain Risk Management Process in Place?" According to a poll conducted dur…
February 26
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By John Westerveld From the blog: http://www.21stcenturysupplychain.com I’ve been thinking about this post for some time. I’m a Toyota customer. Our family has owned four Toyota Corolla’s over the past twenty years and we’ve always been very happy w…
February 23
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From the blog: http://www.21stcenturysupplychain.com CIO.com has a very funny (in a sad but true way) post by Thomas Wailgum outlining the 5 steps to ERP software success. From his post; Meet with ERP vendor, get taken to expensive sporting event/di…
February 5
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From the blog: http://www.21stcenturysupplychain.com Our expectations as consumers are changing. When I was a growing up (I won't comment on how long ago that was!) we expected to have to wait for things ("It's in the mail!"). As the technology evo…
February 2
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From the blog: http://www.21stcenturysupplychain.com Mark Pearson of Logistics Management wrote an interesting article this month outlining "three of the most vital supply chain planning mantras": 1. Supply chain planning works best as a high-leve…
January 21
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From the blog: http://www.21stcenturysupplychain.com There was an excellent article in IndustryWeek based on a conversation with Jim Lawton from Dun and Bradstreet Corp which talks about the importance of knowing who your suppliers are and what the…
January 6
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November 12, 2009
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From the blog: http://www.21stcenturysupplychain.com A couple of weeks ago, I was honoured to speak at a regional conference for PMAC (Purchasing Managers Association of Canada) about supply chain risk management. At the end of my session, one of t…
November 10, 2009
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From the blog: http://www.21stcenturysupplychain.com The other day, I was discussing with some colleagues what elements were needed for a successful S&OP implementation. There have been arguments made that successful S&OP is all about process and t…
October 1, 2009
John Westerveld commented on John Westerveld's blog post 'A successful ERP implementation? One that is never started'
That's great news. Often we see start-ups trying to manage with access databases and Excel documents. Then, as the business grows, the company really struggles because they don't have the infrastructure to keep up. It looks like you are tackling thi…
October 1, 2009
chicago-industrial commented on John Westerveld's blog post 'A successful ERP implementation? One that is never started'
I'm implementing an ERP solution right now. It's a breeze because I'm a startup, so there is no data to import from a legacy system.
October 1, 2009

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Do you need executive involvement in S&OP?

By John Westerveld


From the blog: http://www.21stcenturysupplychain.com


I came across this article by Colleen Crum, a principle with Oliver Wight Americas. In it, she outlines a compelling argument about how critical leadership involvement is to S&OP. I couldn't agree more.

Over the past few years, I've talked to many people who have had varying degrees of success implementing S&OP. One theme was consist

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Posted on May 27, 2010 at 11:56am —

John Westerveld

Cycle counting 101

By John Westerveld


From the blog: http://www.21stcenturysupplychain.com



I was at an event last week where I met a guy who works for an electronics contract manufacturer. He was telling me about a physical inventory they were doing at the plant. Apparently the physical inventory was revealing a lot of inventory discrepancies. This surprised me because I knew the company had procedures in place to do regular cycle coun

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Posted on May 5, 2010 at 11:56am —

John Westerveld

3D TV – Technical marvel, Forecasting puzzle

By John Westerveld

From the blog: http://www.21stcenturysupplychain.com



3D TVs were the big story at the CES show in January and now I'm starting to see them show up at Best Buy. While I tend to be in the early majority of the technology adoption curve, I don't think I'll be buying a 3D TV any time soon. So, am I representative of the population, or am I just receding to the technological late adopters side of the curve

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Posted on April 21, 2010 at 11:59am —

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Top ten reasons YOU should be doing S&OP – Part 2

Yesterday, I gave you a list of 5 reasons you should be doing Sales and Operations Planning; allow me to finish my top 10 list…



1. Alignment
2. Decision Making
3. Visibility
4. Finance Integration
5. New Product Introduction



6. Responsiveness — Responsiveness you ask? Sales and ops is a monthly process (usually). How can a monthly process help me be more responsive? There are two answers to that question. First of all, S&OP typically deals with

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Posted on March 10, 2010 at 11:39am —

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