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An S&OP communication plan: The final step in support of company strategy

Supply Chain Trend

Foresight is a renowned magazine that focuses on the professional development for makers and users of business forecasts. I’m honored that in the latest Foresight edition, I’ve been published as a practitioner with my article An S&OP communication plan: The Final Step in support of Company Strategy. cheers, Niels.

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5 Things the Training 2025 Conference Taught Me About the Future of Learning & Development

Shapiro Negotiations Institute

I just got back from Training Magazine’s Training 2025 Conference and Expo. These strategies don’t require remortgaging your office to afford fancy consultants. Jeff’s session on negotiation strategies particularly hit home for me. And truth be told, it was worth every second. The best part?

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My Q&A on Agility for "Trusted Magazine" (December 2023.)

The Good Spending

I assume that Agile practices in procurement are hyped more than used : many companies still mandate the use of the RFx as the sole answer to any emerging sourcing requirement, many fear or don’t appreciate the demand management, and digital transformation frequently happens without any comprehensive strategy and benefits tracking.

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How Practitioner Clients Can Avoid The Pitfalls Of A ProcureTech Acquisition

Procurement Insights

However, Procurement Magazine (2024) notes rapid evolution in ProcureTech, with providers adapting to diverse client needs, suggesting flexibility in acceptance. Best Guess: 30% is a reasonable midpoint, balancing profit motives with practical limits (e.g., resource constraints deter taking all risky clients).

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A TMS Tale of Two Food Shippers – Which Describes Your Evolutionary State?

Supply Chain Collaborator

The Summer 2020 issue of Food Shippers of America Magazine has dropped. The other discussed advanced TMS strategies engaged by food shippers with evolved logistics IT platforms already in use. Editors here at the Digital Supply Chain Collaborator blog noted a striking contrast when reviewing this issue.

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Negotiation Speaker 2022 – 10 Most Popular Experts

Procurement Tactics

She was responsible for sales and strategy within financial institutions such as Citigroup and the New York Stock Exchange-Euro next for nearly 15 years. The Sales and Marketing Management magazine has called Colleen and her company, Engage Selling, one of the top 5 most effective sales training organizations in the market today. .

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10 CEOs Reveal Favorite Operations Management Book

Supply Chain Opz

Moreover, generic OM books lack the " strategy " part and they are too big to carry around ;). Problems With OM Books Our observation about contemporary OM books is that they present the "simplified version" of OR techniques through the use of spreadsheet (because their target audience is business students).