Selecting a well-fitting technology will help avoid both direct costs and opportunity costs of a poor modeling fit and enable your organization’s supply chain performance to push to increasingly greater heights, fully unleashing the benefits that flexible, responsive, optimized supply chain planning can offer.

PRINCIPLE 3: Different industries have different levels of production complexity and therefore require different levels of production modeling capability.

PRINCIPLE #2: Solver algorithms add an obscure boon or barrier, but true optimization and synchronous solving approaches deliver the best outcomes.

PRINCIPLE #1: If a solution cannot adequately model a production environment, then it cannot create realistic scenarios and it cannot optimize those scenarios.

The need for supply chain flexibility and resiliency has been a common theme in recent months, but achieving each is much more realistic than many supply chain leaders may imagine. S&OP and detailed scheduling technologies are key, but most have fallen short of delivering the promised value. This series addresses why.