Clean Up Your Supply Chain

Sanjay Rao, European Planning Director, Diversey, and Peter Chambers, Business Consulting Director, Logility, discuss moving to a global S&OP process and improving visibility of demand, supply and inventory plans in a tightly integrated, end-to-end supply chain.

Inventory Management: Balancing Fast and Slow-Moving Products

Join Jeff Killion, Sigma-Aldrich, and Ron Burnette, Logility as they discuss how to evaluate your product portfolio to determine an optimal inventory strategy for balancing both fast and slow-moving products.

Inventory Optimization: Synchronize Your Supply Chain

Learn how optimizing inventory investments across your supply chain can ensure great customer service in this information-packed presentation by Prem William and Nick Bullard from HAVI Global Solutions and Chris Russell from Logility.

Managing SKU Complexity

Lee Dame, Vice President, Global Supply Chain with CooperVision and Bob Cowdrick from Logility discuss the challenges of managing a broad portfolio of complex SKUs, with a high number of materials. Hear how CooperVision is able to flexibly manage at the aggregate level and drill down to resolve specific exceptions.

Sales & Operations Planning: American Italian Pasta Company’s Recipe for Success

Brandon Jobe, Director of Sales and Operations Planning at AIPC and Brian Vazquez, Senior Business Consultant with Logility outline how American Italian Pasta implemented a S&OP process to create a more open and trusting environment, coupled with Voyager Solutions to collaborate on market demand, customer requirements and production needs to boost service levels, reduce costs and slash inventory obsolescence.

State-of-the-Art S&OP

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.

Real-World ROI for Inventory Optimization

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

S&OP: Change in Strategy

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.

Apparel Challenges

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.

American Italian Pasta Company

Hear how American Italian Pasta Company, the largest producer of dry pasta in the United States, leveraged Logility Voyager Solutions to reduce inventory, increase customer service and improve forecast accuracy.

Stanley Black & Decker

Hear how Stanley Black & Decker, an S&P 500 company, deployed Logility Voyager Inventory Optimization and saw an immediate fill rate improvement to help reduce its finished goods days of supply as well as its investment in raw materials and components.

Successful Sales and Operations Planning in 5 Steps

The monthly S&OP meeting is a critically important decision-making activity that sets the overall direction for the company. This supply chain white paper discusses 5 critical steps to ensure a successful planning process that aligns with organizational goals.

Three Critical Components for Private Label Success

Private label manufacturing has evolved into a demanding discipline characterized by high service levels, thin margins, large SKU counts, and little room for error. "Three Critical Components for Private Label Success" shows how mid-sized manufacturers can grow robustly year over year if they master the art of customer collaboration and the science of demand planning, inventory optimization and production planning.

Winning the Inventory Battle in Consumer Electronics

In the electronics industry, product shelf lives are short and the greatest margin occurs during a successful product launch. But 50% of new product introductions fail to achieve success and almost half of those failures are due to initial misreads of market expectations. Why? "Winning the Inventory Battle in Consumer Electronics" looks at how the battle for profitability turns largely on two key disciplines: accurate demand planning and effective inventory optimization.

Inventory Optimization: Impact of a Multi-Echelon Approach

Inventory optimization is a matter of right-sizing an organization's inventory investment to meet a given service target. The Aberdeen Group finds that companies utilizing multi-echelon inventory optimization (MEIO) have a more comprehensive understanding of their inventory and are twice as capable as others of balancing cost and service levels across their network.