Maximising Packaging Industry Potential with Advanced Planning

The purpose of the study was to find new ways and areas to improve and focus on efficiency; enable cross-border thinking and end-to-end value creation through...

Focus on the value chain integration Value chain integration has been one of the cornerstones in packaging industry efficiency improvements for some...

What if Tissue Industry leaders choose to rethink their business planning from raw materials through paper production to converting processes to markets?...

In Lora Cecere’s recent article, ‘How do we stop buying software the wrong way’ she calls for software buyers to request...

The Fedrigoni Group is an Italian manufacturer and a leading player in the production and sale of paper for packaging, printing and graphics as well as...

The world of Supply Chain Planning acronyms such as Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and more recently Sales and...

Throughout I-Plan’s history, it’s hard to think of a year when the supply chain faced more tests and challenges more than in its twentieth: 2020. For our...

What Does It (AI)L Mean? There is an ever-increasing amount of interest and content appearing around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)....

Why Scenario Planning Tools come in handy? The ‘What If’ Scenario Planning capability protects your business from known and unknown risks that may emerge at...

Speaking at the Appita Fibre Chain Conference 2019, Inigo Bridle answers the following question: Is Sales and Operations Planning Process Implementation all...

It is now commonplace to hear news about organisations overhauling their supply chain in an effort to respond to global warming. While governments have...

The only constant thing is change, according to Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights. This was Cecere’s key takeaway following the latest Supply...

Supply chain management is about the management of risk.  The reason so many global manufacturing companies find supply chain risk management difficult is...

While S&OP is an essential process for any organisation that depends on de-risking complex, global supply chains – it goes wrong all too often. These...

While arguments continue as to whether the aggregated votes of Leave or Remain won the European elections, finding a means to assess the effect of a no-deal...

Supply chains in the paper industry are complex and fraught with risk. There is, however, a solution to the challenges of managing these supply chains that...

Gartner is the most dominant IT analyst organisation in the world, taking more than 40% of global IT analyst revenues. On its website it claims to...

Interviewer: Jarmo Ropponen, Tieto Head of Sales and Marketing for Pulp and PaperRespondent: Alan Cheesbrough, CEO and Founder of I-Plan 1) Tieto and Trading...

Being a disruptive force within your industry means adapting to the changing technological landscape. Not only does your company need to be ready and adaptive...