I recently attended Kinaxis’ annual user group meeting, Kinexions. The most important theme of the event was the trifecta of artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI (GenAI) and agents. Supply chain planning and execution software are the business software domains that are going to be major beneficiaries of AI and agentic AI automation. However, they also are going to be two of the more difficult to translate from potential to reality. Some of the basics, especially predictive analytics...
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Topics:
Office of Finance,
Supply Chain Planning,
Business Planning,
Supply Chain,
supply chain management
The recent recommendation by the European Commission to scale back the scope, granularity and timeline for sustainability reporting represents a sea change in this form of corporate disclosure requirements. If enacted, it will substantially reduce or eliminate the reporting requirements for many enterprises, especially small to midsize establishments, as well as provide more time for compliance. While environmental reporting requirements appear to be easing, some regulatory disclosure...
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Topics:
Operations,
Supply Chain Planning,
Business Planning,
Supply Chain,
Sustainability Management
From my perspective, supply chain management (SCM) and sales and operations planning (S&OP) are two of the most underappreciated disciplines of modern corporate management. Properly applied, they can improve performance and competitiveness by increasing customer satisfaction and reducing costs. A combination of more capable information technology with advances in operations research and analytics has made managing supply and demand chains potentially more impactful by making them more flexible...
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Topics:
ERP,
Kinaxis,
Supply Chain Planning,
Analytics,
SCM,
S&OP,
Sales and Operations Planning,
warehouse management,
purchasing,
inventory management
Supply and demand chain planning and execution have grown in importance over the past decade as companies have recognized that software can meaningfully enhance their competitiveness and improve their financial performance. Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is an integrated business management process first developed in the 1980s aimed at achieving better alignment and synchronization between the supply chain, production and sales functions. A properly implemented S&OP process routinely...
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Topics:
Planning,
SaaS,
Sales,
Sales Performance,
Supply Chain Performance,
Forecast,
Human Capital,
Mobile Technology,
Supply Chain Planning,
Operational Performance,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Performance,
Cloud Computing,
Financial Performance,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Sales Planning,
Supply Chain,
Demand Chain,
Integrated Business Planning,
SCM Demand Planning,
S&OP