Over the past year, nearly every industry has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing team members to adjust to working remotely. The transition to remote work was considered a temporary measure in efforts to stop the spread of the virus, but it does not seem as though it's going anywher

Disruptions to the supply chain If any event reveals the need for resilient supply chains, it’s COVID-19. The disruptions shook every industry, including automobile. Early 2020 forecasts projected a significant drop in new vehicle sales, but ultimately turned out much better with only a 15%

Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE) is a highly beneficial process in optimizing how you strategize supply chains. This process primarily serves to keep S&OP goals on track, integrating with the planning process to drive daily and weekly supply and demand fluctuations. Fueling the success

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) can be painful. It is additive work on top of the day-to-day activities that use most, if not all, of the available human capacity. It causes anxiety because, in addition to the sunk costs of time and energy, the potential impact of any errors and revisions g

What a year it has been! Glad to see the back of it… ‘New normal’… ‘Online schooling’… ‘Have you been vaccinated yet?’ Pandemic… Unprecedented… Zoom fatigue… three-day delivery isn’t fast enough… I shudder