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 ...

I’ve always thought the delivery performance metric best reflects how well integrated the various functions are and how interdependent they all are if we expect to consistently perform at a high level ...

As organizations grapple with ongoing economic uncertainty, many supply chain planning (SCP) leaders will face organizational resource constraints and competing business priorities. As leaders ...

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, ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: Every year, 40 or so students in the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics' (MIT CTL) Master of Supply Chain Management (SCM) program complete one-year research projects. The ...

S&OP, the process used to match supply and demand and align business strategy, consistently ranks as a top priority for management teams. But companies often spend three to five years to reach ...

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) sits at the center of modern supply chain and logistics businesses as a critical tool that aligns demand, supply, and financial goals into a single, disciplined ...

Identifying gaps in sales and operations planning (S&OP) is critical to achieving the value of demand-driven supply networks. There are practical methods to uncover misalignments that can hinder ...

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 ...