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Could 2021 be the year of Supply Chain Co-operation?
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...
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: What does it (AI)L mean?
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)....
What next? Scenario planning in a world of uncertainty
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...
Sales and Operations Planning: People, process and planning
Speaking at the Appita Fibre Chain Conference 2019, Inigo Bridle answers the following question: Is Sales and Operations Planning Process Implementation all...
The Green Supply Chain
It is now commonplace to hear news about organisations overhauling their supply chain in an effort to respond to global...
De-risking the future: Three key takeaways from Supply Chain Insights
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...
The Black Swan Imperative And De-risking Supply Chains
Supply chain management is about the management of risk. The reason so many global manufacturing companies find supply chain risk management difficult...
Sales and Operations Planning: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
While Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is an essential process for any organisation that depends on de-risking complex, global supply chains – it goes...
De-Risking the Supply Chain in a No-Deal Brexit
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...
Solution for Integrated Planning Across Box Plants and Paper Mills
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...
10 Questions Tieto Asked I-Plan
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...
What does an agile software vendor look like?
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...











