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Partners in Planning – November 2025
Should Energy Set the Pace? | Mechelen | 20 November 2025 In many companies, supply chain and energy procurement still operate in silos. Yet when planning needs to balance service, cost, and inventory, energy can play a decisive role in the cost equation....
Partners in Planning – September 2025
Building a High-Performance Supply Chain: Lessons from Arxada’s Rapid Evolution | Online webinar | 25 September 2025 Join Randall Willis, VP of Supply Chain at Arxada, for a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most impressive supply chain turnarounds in...
Partners in Planning – May 2025
Do’s and Don’ts in Digital Transformation | Mechelen | 15 May 2025 Digitizing the supply chain promises efficiency, transparency, and cost savings — but a successful transformation is no easy feat.What pitfalls should you avoid? What truly works in practice?Our...
Partners in Planning – November 2024
Linking Planning to Operations | Mechelen | 21 November 2024 Partners In Planning is a collaborative learning network designed to connect planning professionals, managers, team leaders, and key stakeholders from sales and operations who are eager to broaden their...
Next part of the MPS toolkit: Link S&OP to MPS
Next part of the MPS toolkit: Link S&OP to MPS I regularly get questions on how the different planning levels link: why do we do S&OP if we don’t “use” it on MPS level? Or, if we do ‘use it’, how can we then link it to the planning run on item level? And how...
Next part of the MPS toolkit: The “Demand – Supply – Inventory graph”
Next part of the MPS toolkit: The Demand – Supply – Inventory graph We are very eager to take you to the next part of the Master Production Schedule toolkit: the graph that shows the demand, supply and inventory. Before we start, let’s recap In one of the last blogs,...
Exploring the toolkit of the MPS planner: the Rough Cut Capacity Plan
Exploring the toolkit of the MPS planner: the Rough Cut Capacity Plan In this blog, we will give an introduction to one of the tools you will need to make a good master production schedule: the Rough Cut Capacity Plan. Before we start, let’s recap In one of the last...
What does a good Master Production Schedule look like? Stepping into “the slushy zone”
What does a good master production schedule look like? In this blog, we want to indicate what a good Master Production Schedule looks like in our opinion. Don’t mistake it for the detailed schedule. We posted a similar blog on the detailed schedule “What does a good,...
The basics of the Master Production Schedule: The result of a balancing act
The basics of the Master Production Schedule: The result of a balancing act Why do we discuss the basics? In the past three years, I have asked different master planners what their definition of their role was, and I got the following answers in different industries:...
How shall we organize planning? Planners and schedulers, or an end to end approach?
Planning can be organized in many different ways. The question on how we should organize it pops up in almost every planning project. Either the organization itself is topic for discussion, or the problems that arise within (and related to) the current organization....