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Choosing the Right Project Management Approach for Implementing IBP How to Decide Among Many Flavors, Each of Which Gives a Different Taste to the Process By Robert Birdsall, Director SCMO2 What project management approach should you use when implementing IBP? It’s a simple question and one we ask every client to consider carefully. There areRead more

Six Strategies for Building Your Supply Chain Transformation Roadmap Creating a Roadmap is a Valuable Process for Any Progressive Business By Frank Polito, Director SCMO2 SAP has launched an almost overwhelming suite of new supply chain planning technologies. S/4HANA, IBP, Ariba, and new analytics capabilities. Legacy applications like ECC/APO technologies will co-exist for some timeRead more

Focus on the Future! But As-Is Still Matters. Ignore Your Current-State, and You Risk Sending Your Future-State Off Track By Robert Birdsall, Director SCMO2 Roughly 60% of our clients take the time during project preparation to stress that they don’t want to recreate the past. Rather, they want to focus on the future state. CertainlyRead more

The Five Must-Have Traits of a Superstar Consultant How to Identify the Best of the Best So You Can Turbocharge Your Team. By Robert Birdsall, Director SCMO2 Nobody wants to be average, but by definition there are as many, if not more, mediocre consultants as there are superstars. As a client, it can be dauntingRead more

The What and Why of DDMRP The Complete Story of DDMRP and Why You Might Need to Use It By Nico Groenewald, Principal SCMO2 Introduction Material Requirements Planning (MRP) has been with us for decades. It originated in the 1950s but with more available computer power, really took off in the 1970s. Production planners areRead more