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Discussing hot topics in supply chain optimization
These informative supply chain videos are full of ideas and practical guidance that can help you tackle the unique challenges supply chain managers face every day.
Lively discussions feature industry experts and supply chain managers exploring topics such as inventory optimization, lean manufacturing, S&OP, demand planning, and more. From strategy to tactics, from reducing costs to raising service levels, each episode illustrates how leading companies are using best practices to transform their global supply chain operations. View these insightful supply chain video podcasts by clicking on the titles below.
Episode 8: When evaluating the quality of a production plan, what are the most important metrics to consider? In this podcast, John Slater, a 25-year manufacturing planning veteran, discusses how to use forward-looking metrics that focus on cost, capacity, material, and efficiency, as well as key execution metrics that compare plan vs. actuals and root-cause analysis.
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Episode 7: When supply chains grow globally, that growth can spawn challenges in network configuration, regulatory compliance, as well as environmental and political factors worldwide. Planning for complexity is a central activity for Jeff Killian, Director of Global Planning at Sigma Aldrich. In this podcast, Jeff talks about the key elements needed to manage a complex global supply chain and meet key business goals despite potentially catastrophic disruptions.
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Episode 6: What should supply chain teams expect when taking the first steps in an inventory optimization initiative? Logility's Chris Russell taps the experience of Celanese, an organization that has reached the top of the maturity curve. Global supply chain analyst Greg Novitsky breaks down the journey to inventory optimization excellence and delivers a veteran's viewpoint for managers who want to get off to a good start.
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Episode 5: With worldwide outsourcing, longer lead times and shorter seasons, apparel supply chains are complex and demanding. Forecasting changing styles is extremely difficult and the supply side is complicated by hard-to-model constraints, costs, and lead times. In this episode, industry expert Ed Thompson discusses some of the unique challenges and best practices used by leading apparel supply chain teams.
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Episode 4: Sales and Operations Planning is an extremely effective method to rally company execs and supply chain stakeholders around a shared view of how the business operates. Dan Gilmore of Supply Chain Digest talks about how S&OP achieves outstanding results by aligning company goals and objectives, establishing a “one number” forecast, and removing the potential for contention and judgment errors.
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Episode 3: Process manufacturing can challenge the most sophisticated supply chain experts. This episode looks at transitions between products, movement from upstream to downstream operations, and gaps between long-term and short-term horizons.
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Episode 2, Part 1: In this episode we examine the evolution of VMI and CPFR, and how we take the best of both worlds to form Collaborative VMI.
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Episode 2, Part 2: In Part 2, Ron Burnette, Product Director, Logility, outlines five crucial steps to implementing Collaborative VMI with customers and partners.
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Episode 1: In this podcast, Aberdeen Group's Nari Viswanathan shares his insight and findings from his latest sales and operations planning research including reviews of best practices of leading supply chains and the reasons S&OP is important in today's environment.
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Episode 8: What's the quantified financial benefit of inventory optimization? We take a closer look at where the benefits come from and how "payback proliferates" throughout the supply chain
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Episode 7: CFOs know that supply chain performance is vital to financial success. But how do we bridge the gap between the world of operations and the big-picture view from the CFO's perspective?
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Episode 6, Part I: Smart companies are positioning themselves to be more competitive as they increase both revenue goals and service levels. This 2-part episode covers various ways that inventory strategy can be used to take advantage of growth.
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Episode 6, Part II: This episode finishes off the wide-ranging discussion we started last time on how inventory optimization increases competitive advantage during a time of uncertain demand growth.
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Episode 5: Ten years ago, early adopters began saving millions through smart inventory reductions that don't sacrifice sales revenue. Today, IO is a mature business discipline that companies must excel at.
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Episode 4: SKU Rationalization is not as simple as lopping off the bottom third of your SKUs! Inventory optimization is needed to weight items correctly, compensate for uncertainty, and expose hidden costs
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Episode 3: Most supply chain managers believe they have a lot of unnecessary inventory, but they don't have a method to identify the "mysterious" causes of that inventory.
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Episode 2: Companies adopt lean manufacturing techniques in order to reduce waste, remove cost, and improve agility—but it doesn't eliminate buffer stocks! How inventory optimization makes "lean" successful.
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Episode 1:A brief look at the fundamental reasons for inventory optimization. What is it? Where did it come from? How does it enhance the performance of supply chains? Featuring Dr. Sean Willems.
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