I recently read an academic paper from the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management called “3rd Party Logistics Providers’ Role in Replenishment” that I liked. The paper contained good information, but it was also a bit long and kind of dense…
The desire to improve service is the main reason many companies are investing in information technology (IT). Achieving this goal is very difficult without a robust Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, formerly known as Sales & Operations Planning. The goal…
I recently completed a study of the Supply Chain Planning (SCP)software market. In doing this study, I came across solutions that could not be cleanly classified as either Supply Chain Planning or Supply Chain Execution. First, a quick background on…
There was a “let’s make a deal” brain teaser that appeared in the “Ask Marilyn” column in Parade magazine several years ago. Readers were asked to suppose they were a contestant on the television game show “Let’s Make A Deal.” …
