by Jurgen Frasch | Dec 15, 2025 | Sales and Operations Planning
With over 90 years of service and more than one million customers worldwide, Henry Schein is synonymous with reliability, precision, and next-day delivery excellence. Operating five U.S. mega-distribution centers that ship 36,000 orders and 170,000 line items every...
by Jurgen Frasch | Dec 15, 2025 | Sales and Operations Planning
Global supply chains are being reshaped by forces that are both unpredictable and deeply structural. Geopolitical realignment, trade policy shifts, sustainability demands, and talent shortages are rewriting the rules of global trade. For supply chain leaders, the real...
by Jurgen Frasch | Dec 1, 2025 | Sales and Operations Planning
Integrated business planning (IBP) has evolved from a supply chain initiative to a core function that enables strategic alignment, risk mitigation and value creation. Businesses today are navigating persistent volatility, demanding not just traditional planning cycles...
by Jurgen Frasch | Dec 1, 2025 | Sales and Operations Planning
Many integrated business planning processes fall short of delivering the full value they can provide. Too often, companies enter into IBP with the wrong vision and intent, seeing it mainly as a way to generate a plan — and dust it off quarterly — rather than a means...
by Jurgen Frasch | Nov 24, 2025 | Sales and Operations Planning
Stijn-Pieter van Houten, chief product officer for supply chain management planning with SAP, details the state of the art in supply chain planning, which stands to be transformed in the coming years by artificial intelligence. A handful of successful use cases is...
by Jurgen Frasch | Nov 19, 2025 | Sales and Operations Planning
Date: November 19, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM ET Live Webinar: 1 hour Webinar Description Supply chain leaders face unprecedented challenges, yet many still rely on siloed, internally focused planning solutions that aren’t built for today’s global multi-tier...