Organizations strive for an effective sales and operations planning (S&OP) process to develop useful and accurate sales and production plans. This brief article includes data from APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking in Supply Chain Planning and best practices from CSCMP's Supply Chain Management Process Standards, second edition.
As world leaders gather in Copenhagen to debate a successor to the landmark Kyoto Protocol, it is no overstatement to say that all eyes will be on the United States. Executive 0rder 13514 is President Obama’s most significant call to environmental action. The order request plans and accurate tracking of each agency’s greenhouse gases. The process of making sustainability actionable begins with ...
White Paper Action plan for workforce and business continuity planning — pandemics, swine and avian flu Enabling full productivity in the event of a pandemic
What if working at the office wasn’t an option? What if teleworking was manda- tory and implemented on a moment’s notice? What if the local school district closed their schools due to confirmed cases of swine flu and your employees are ...
APQC designed the 2010 study Corporate Planning and Performance Management to provide a fast track to the leading corporate planning and performance management practices that finance managers can apply in their organizations. APQC considered the key issues and challenges that its members face, and their corresponding needs, regarding best practices in financial management.
APQC designed the 2010 study Corporate Planning and Performance Management to provide a fast track to the leading corporate planning and performance management practices that finance managers can apply in their organizations. APQC considered the key issues and challenges that its members face, and their corresponding needs, regarding best practices in financial management.
It’s All About Capacity, Don’t Leave It To Chance
The business environment has never been more dynamic than it is right now. The speed of change in the marketplace is creating a stress on corporations to respond quickly and effectively. The technology pundits are stressing visibility and collaboration as the key enablers for a company to respond. Prior to any quick technology fix, corporations ...
The Challenges of APS in a Short Shelf Life Environment
A large food provider manufactures products in two manufacturing facilities. Operational flexibility on the processing and packaging lines allows one processing line to serve multiple packaging lines. However, this production flexibility complicated scheduling, which was done manually. The company searched for a solution that would automate ...
U.S. residential remodeling expenditures reportedly reached a record 164.9 billion in 2002.
Delta s compliance to schedule has increased to an impressive 85- 90%.....a remarkable improvement and a mark of success.
The Delta Faucet Success Story Achieving Planning Excellence
The housing/home improvement industry and related kitchen/bath market, seemed to defy the odds in 2002, significantly ...
What benefits are enterprise resource planning (ERP) adopters seeing compared to their peers? APQC's Open Standards Research data indicate that organizations with an ERP system have customer order cycle times nearly half as long as those reported by organizations without an ERP system. Organizations with an ERP system also report lower costs for the "operate warehousing" process.
“How do I manage my network of storehouses?” If you ask yourself: How and when should I build up or draw down my inventory to meet changes in demand while at the same time minimizing movements between storehouses? How do I even out workflow across several storehouses for migration purposes? How should I manage my inventory so that I can achieve a balance between space optimization and minimizing ...
You may no longer make things in-house, but somewhere, someone in your supply chain is making things, and that still calls for planning! Your production ...
APQC project manager Travis Colton discusses mistakes organizations often make when planning benchmarking projects. He outlines the steps that must be ...
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