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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: The SCM thesis Developing a Dynamic S&OP Process for Third-Party Logistics was authored by Richard A. Elmquist and Luis Dávila and supervised by Dr. Ilya Jackson ([email protected]) and ...

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 ...

In particular, tariffs and related trade fights can inject extreme uncertainty, complexity, and volatility into already fragile supply chain networks, with impacts extending well into the future. In ...

Manufacturers needing to make decisions about what to build before there's clarity on what will be sold should constantly be evaluating their Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process. This means ...

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, ...