We’re in a new era of trade, the result of converging issues that have been building for at least a decade. Structurally and politically, the liberal ethos that drove the trade environment through the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st has changed. There will be a new equilibrium in the future; getting there, though, will be a bumpy ride. Adding to the challenges posed by a shifting trade environment are commodity and currency market volatility and the impacts of ongoing legal, regulatory and taxation changes.
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Topics:
Office of Finance,
Recurring Revenue,
Continuous Planning,
Financial Performance Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Inventory Optimization,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
Sales and Operations Planning,
ERP and Continuous Accounting,
Sales Planning and Analytics,
revenue recognition
Kinaxis recently held its annual user conference, Kinexions, which focuses on helping the company’s customers improve their execution of supply chain and sales and operations planning (S&OP). This year’s event took place against a backdrop of what is beginning to look like a new and more challenging era of world trade. This will have a significant impact on most product companies with international operations. (I also reviewed last year’s event, which can be found here.)
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Topics:
Continuous Planning,
Financial Performance Management,
Inventory Optimization,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
Sales and Operations Planning
A recent analysis of our sales and operations planning (S&OP) dynamic insight research provides perspective on the current state of this core business process. Using concise web-based surveys, Ventana Research’s Dynamic Insights provide research participants with an immediate assessment of their company’s efforts as well as research- and experience-based advice on potential next steps to improve. For those who wish to do a quick assessment of their own company’s sales and operations planning, the Dynamic Insight can be found here.
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Topics:
Continuous Planning,
Product Information Management,
Inventory Optimization,
Work and Resource Management,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
Sales and Operations Planning,
Sales Planning and Analytics
From my perspective, supply chain management (SCM) and sales and operations planning (S&OP) are two of the most underappreciated disciplines of modern corporate management. Properly applied, they can improve performance and competitiveness by increasing customer satisfaction and reducing costs. A combination of more capable information technology with advances in operations research and analytics has made managing supply and demand chains potentially more impactful by making them more flexible and adaptable to market conditions. Consequently, companies can enhance profitability, reduce working capital and improve customer satisfaction by providing more reliable service.
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Topics:
ERP,
Kinaxis,
Supply Chain Planning,
Analytics,
SCM,
S&OP,
Sales and Operations Planning,
supply chain management,
procurement
Senior finance executives and finance organizations that want to improve their performance must recognize the value of technology as a key tool for doing high-quality work. Consider how poorly your organization would perform if it had to operate using 25-year-old software and hardware. Having the latest technology isn’t always necessary, but it’s important for executives to understand that technology shapes a finance organization’s ability to improve its overall effectiveness.
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Topics:
Big Data,
Data Science,
Mobile,
Human Capital Management,
Mobile Technology,
Office of Finance,
Continuous Planning,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Collaboration,
Financial Performance Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Inventory Optimization,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
Sales and Operations Planning,
Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing,
ERP and Continuous Accounting
