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John Westerveld 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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Added by John Westerveld on March 10, 2010 at 11:39am — No Comments

John Westerveld Top ten reasons YOU should be doing S&OP – Part 1

Ok, maybe not you personally, but your company should be doing S&OP. Sales and operations planning has been around since the 80s. Until recently, adoption has been slow, but steady. In the last 5-7 years, S&OP has started to become mainstream. Why? Because when implemented properly, it just works.


Let's think about a world (maybe your world?) where S&OP isn't done.


The high-end DVD player your company makes is not selling well. There is excess inventory in

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Added by John Westerveld on March 10, 2010 at 11:37am — No Comments

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William Newman The Outsourcing Paradox

In this month's View from C-Level we consider the changing face of outsourcing and how the movement if intellectual property, materiel, and final products has changed in the Post-crisis Economy.


http://theviewfromclevel.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/the-outsourcing-paradox/
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Added by William Newman on March 5, 2010 at 6:03am — No Comments

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John Westerveld Why don’t you have a supply chain risk management process in place?

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 during Aravo's supply chain risk webinar series, 71.4 percent of those polled said their biggest concern continues to be risk of supplier viability. Yet another study highlighted in the a

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Added by John Westerveld on February 26, 2010 at 11:44am — No Comments

John Westerveld Learn from Toyota…the good and the bad

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 with them. Our most recent purchase, a 2010 Corolla S, has been a great car for my daily 160 Km (100 mile) commute. With a fuel mileage of 5.6 litres per 100 km (35 mpg) on the highway,

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Added by John Westerveld on February 23, 2010 at 7:24am — No Comments

William Newman Create and Monitor a Risk-adjusted Strategy for the Post-crisis Economy

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Added by William Newman on February 12, 2010 at 2:48pm — No Comments

William Newman Reduce Enterprise Risks with Spend Analytics

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Added by William Newman on February 12, 2010 at 2:36pm — No Comments

John Westerveld 5 more steps to ERP software success

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/dinner by sales rep, and select appropriate software package. (And don’t forget to send the check!)

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Added by John Westerveld on February 5, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

iCADsales.com progeCAD 2010 Professional Released, Read Write DWG 2010, Speed Increases, Improved Import from Adobe PDF, Windows 7 Compatible.

Portland, OR, USA – February 4, 2010 – progeCAD United States / iCADsales (www.progecad.us), announced today the release of the advanced progeCAD 2010 Professional, built using the IntelliCAD core. progeCAD 2010 Professional natively works with any drawing created with all versions of AutoCAD®, including the earlier versions going back to 1984. The latest release, DWG 2010 is now available as the most DWG compatible software on the planet, mo… Continue

Added by iCADsales.com on February 4, 2010 at 3:30am — No Comments

John Westerveld Changing expectations: can you respond?

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 evolves, the time it takes to do things, and the time we are willing to wait to do things has changed significantly (how do you feel when the company you are dealing with wants you to mail or FAX inform… Continue

Added by John Westerveld on February 2, 2010 at 9:47am — No Comments

John Westerveld What are your top three supply chain planning mantras? in 21st Century Supply Chain

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-level, enterprise-wide discipline. 2. Adaptability is key. 3. Speed matters. Would you add or change anything? One line from the article caught my eye - ... Read the rest of the article and comment on… Continue

Added by John Westerveld on January 21, 2010 at 8:53am — No Comments

John Westerveld Visibility in the supply chain: What you can’t see can hurt you.

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 their current state of health is. The article raises some really good points about the knowledge we should have about our business partners. From the article; "One of the lessons learned ... was that… Continue

Added by John Westerveld on January 6, 2010 at 11:01am — No Comments

Jennifer Read The Coming Manufacturing Renaissance

Let’s face it. Whether you think the official recession is over or not, the global economy is not in such great shape. US consumers are severely tapped out, and some major changes will have to occur before a growth engine replacement will be found. As one pundit put it recently, most of the ‘green shoots’ in the global economy have been the direct result of ‘manure’ coming from government stimulus programs and are unsustainable at the current deficit spending levels. They are throwing money at t… Continue

Added by Jennifer Read on December 14, 2009 at 10:12am — 2 Comments

Charlie Accetta CEOs Have Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself

I caught a blurb today regarding the Stuttgart Fastener Fair overtaking the National Industrial Fastener Show in terms of exhibitors and attendees. It shouldn’t have come as any surprise; the United States has been following a downward industrial spiral for over a score of years and it’s finally revealing our weakness at the commodity level. Who do we have to thank for our relegation into the second division?… Continue

Added by Charlie Accetta on December 8, 2009 at 12:43pm — No Comments

Bill Bowman How Can ERP Help Small Manufacturing?

Many of our small manufacturing contacts have been asking some good questions about ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems, and whether or not this type of software platform would increase competitive advantage while still being cost-effective. The answer is: maybe (of course!) If you are operating with many "islands" of data, and wish that you could somehow tie it all together in order to extract meaningful information, then ERP is something you should be looking at. Systems range in cost… Continue

Added by Bill Bowman on November 21, 2009 at 10:57am — 2 Comments

chicago-industrial Some Contract work for a Chicago electronics manufacturer

Hi, Everyone. If you are interested in some contract work, I'm looking for: ISO 13485 quality engineers / techs Epicor (Vantage, E9, etc) users Web / Database dev (web based forms, reports, data collection for an internal intra-net) All terms negotiable. THX, Chicago Industrial Continue

Added by chicago-industrial on November 20, 2009 at 1:04pm — 1 Comment

John Westerveld A supply chain risk management survey by MIT

From the blog: http://www.21stcenturysupplychain.com Thought this was interesting.... MIT is conducting a global survey on Supply Chain Risks and Risk Management, and is looking for business and supply chain professionals within manufacturing, retail and distribution organizations to participate. If you complete the ~12-minute survey you can sign up to get a copy of the results in early 2010 when it is completed. Scope of survey includes: .… Continue

Added by John Westerveld on November 18, 2009 at 11:24am — No Comments

John Westerveld A supply chain risk management survey by MIT

From the blog: http://www.21stcenturysupplychain.com Thought this was interesting.... MIT is conducting a global survey on Supply Chain Risks and Risk Management, and is looking for business and supply chain professionals within manufacturing, retail and distribution organizations to participate. If you complete the ~12-minute survey you can sign up to get a copy of the results in early 2010 when it is completed. Scope of survey includes: .… Continue

Added by John Westerveld on November 18, 2009 at 11:24am — No Comments

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