Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

In 1965 Royal Dutch Shell put into service what it called the Unified Planning Machinery (UPM), a computer-driven system meant to bring more discipline to the company’s cash flow planning. This kind of rational, model-based financial forecasting was very much in vogue in the 1960s. But before long, Shell’s top executives realized that many of the commitments they had to make extended well beyond UPM’s six-year time horizon—and that even within that horizon, UPM tended to get a lot wrong. In the early 1970s they shut it down.

Jeremy Bentham maakt al jaren de scenario’s die zo typerend zijn voor Shell. Dat is geen vrijblijvend intellectueel entertainment, zegt de vicepresident Global Business Environment. Ze helpen Shell bij de ontwikkeling van het strategisch beleid.

There's no light at the end of this tunnel, but at least we're getting used to the dark.

The best manufacturers I've visited this year all share a common attribute: they are obsessed with making themselves as easy as possible to work with from a supply chain, distribution and services standpoint.

E-commerce is de laatste jaren enorm gegroeid. De verwachting is dat e-commerce in de komende vijf jaar nog groter gaat worden dan de reguliere verkoop van producten en goederen.

In hun streven naar operational excellence verschuiven steeds meer bedrijven hun focus van de eigen operatie naar de keten. De grootste inefficiënties zijn te vinden in de soms gebrekkige afstemming tussen de verschillende schakels in de keten.

Canaccord Genuity is warning that Z10 sales could weaken further in consumer retail channels as new BB10 smartphones face increased competition

Extreme weather events are costing the federal government billions of dollars a year in disaster relief, and these costs will keep rising if we don't do more to prevent climate change.

Ervaar zelf de innovatie die Google met Glass in gang heeft gezet.

THE Church of Scotland is to be asked to adopt strategies used by corporate giants such as Shell and BP to help plan for its uncertain future.

Anaplan CEO Frederic Laluyaux on how the company’s cloud-based platform helps businesses plan, collaborate and react in real time.

CSC’s annual supply chain survey took a closer look at the key areas that are driving success and promotions in the supply chain. CSC research shows that more and more supply chain officers are rising to the highest levels of their organizations. Our infographic explains why. Leading corporate supply chain operations are driving revenues and decreasing costs with three key capabilities – upstream and downstream visibility, powerful analytics and the flexibility to take action when needed.

When it comes to data visualization, it's not how creative you are, but how common.

PWC ondervroeg maar liefst 11000 consumenten in elf landen over hun veranderende koopgedrag. De uitkomsten laten zien dat niet alle vooruitstrevende ideeën over multichannel shoppers stand houden.

The timeline isn’t clear, but the German software giant SAP thinks it’s time to get out of selling on-premise software. SAP is offering its advanced in-memory computing product, HANA, as a cloud service, and says everything else will go there.

Bedrijven die vooruitlopen in supply chain management onderscheiden zich in het afstemmen van relaties en in het blijven leren en ontwikkelen. Dat is een van de opvallende resultaten uit het derde en laatste deel van de Nationale Supply Chain monitor.

Each year businesses and individuals are impacted by disasters. However, a disaster does not have to be widespread to paralyze an agency.

FRANCE - The office of the French presidency, the Elysée Palace, plans to fund an update of its wine collection by auctioning off a tenth of the bottles in its cellar, a leading auctioneer said on...

In tijden van crisis wordt er meer gestolen bij de HEMA. Dat zegt HEMA-directeur Ronald van Zetten.

Nine questions about the topics on the supply chain agenda of a supply chain professional.