by Chris Tumelty | Jul 1, 2021 | Industry Insights
What if Tissue Industry leaders choose to rethink their business planning from raw materials through paper production to converting processes to markets? Companies in the tissue industry, under pressure from their customers on price and delivery performance, are...
by Jack Cheesbrough | May 6, 2021 | Industry Insights
In Lora Cecere’s recent article, ‘How do we stop buying software the wrong way?’ she calls for software buyers to request prospective technologists to participate in a ‘bake-off’ to demonstrate the potential business benefits from implementing their tools....
by Inigo Bridle | Apr 13, 2021 | Industry Insights
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 self-adhesive products operating in 132 countries. After I-Plan completed an implementation with the Supply Chain...
by Alan Cheesbrough | Mar 24, 2021 | Industry Insights
The world of Supply Chain Planning acronyms such as Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and more recently Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE) can mean almost anything, depending on who is asking the question and of whom...
by Alan Cheesbrough | Jan 14, 2021 | Industry Insights
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 customers in the paper industry, we’ve seen widespread volatility. Surging demand in tissue and packaging and...
by Inigo Bridle | Oct 21, 2020 | Industry Insights
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). In the UK, BBC 4 has shown several programmes about the subject, The Royal Society ran a year-long series of...
