Kinaxis recently held its annual user conference, Kinexions, which focuses on helping the company’s customers improve their execution of supply chain and sales and operations planning (S&OP). This year’s event took place against a backdrop of what is beginning to look like a new and more challenging era of world trade. This will have a significant impact on most product companies with international operations. (I also reviewed last year’s event, which can be found here.)
Kinaxis Assists in the Planning of Supply Chains for the New Era of Trade
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Robert Kugel on Dec 6, 2018 6:00:00 AM
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Topics: Financial Performance Management, Operations & Supply Chain, Continuous Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, Inventory Optimization, Sales and Operations Planning
A recent analysis of our sales and operations planning (S&OP) dynamic insight research provides perspective on the current state of this core business process. Using concise web-based surveys, Ventana Research’s Dynamic Insights provide research participants with an immediate assessment of their company’s efforts as well as research- and experience-based advice on potential next steps to improve. For those who wish to do a quick assessment of their own company’s sales and operations planning, the Dynamic Insight can be found here.
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Topics: Operations & Supply Chain, Continuous Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning, Inventory Optimization, Product Information Management, Sales and Operations Planning, Work and Resource Management, Sales Planning and Analytics
Was accounting ever cool? Well, yes, in a nerdy sort of way. Double-entry bookkeeping, codified in the 15th century by Fra Luca Pacioli, a Franciscan friar and pal of Leonardo Da Vinci, was essential for the expansion of trade and the creation of the modern corporation. Bookkeeping and accounting were as important to economic development as two other financial inventions – insurance and fractional reserve banking. Double-entry bookkeeping is an elegant system, simple yet powerful. It supports the accurate recording of transactions and the economic condition of a business as well as analyses of its performance. That’s cool.
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Topics: Analytics, business intelligence, Big Data, Office of Finance, Continuous Planning, ERP and Continuous Accounting, Financial Performance Management, Enterprise Resource Planning
Warning: Software Now Mandatory for Lease Accounting
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Robert Kugel on Apr 16, 2018 1:00:00 PM
Accountants love electronic spreadsheets – and for good reason. They’re a powerful and versatile personal productivity tool and just about everyone knows how to use them. Spreadsheets are the default software tool for accountants because they enable autonomy (you don’t need to ask IT for anything) and they’re free (so you don’t have to make a business case to authorize buying something). Some accountants humorously (but earnestly) invoke the line “you’ll have to pry this spreadsheet from my cold, dead hands” whenever somebody suggests eliminating them.
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Topics: ERP and Continuous Accounting, Office of Finance, Continuous Accounting, controller, FASB, IASB, CFO, Financial Performance Management, Spreadsheets, Enterprise Resource Planning, ERP, revenue recognition, Accounting, Lease Accounting, real estate, Lease Management, ASC842, IFRS16, leasing
Pricing is an issue that almost every for-profit company confronts – and usually agonizes over. Organizations’ approach to pricing can range from centralized to decentralized and from highly disciplined to lax. Whether pricing is best handled in a centralized or decentralized fashion depends a great deal on the markets the company is serving as well as its organizational structure and culture. However specific pricing policies are established, though, a disciplined approach to price setting and negotiation is always superior to an ad-hoc process. Discipline is key to preventing margin “leakage” caused by unnecessary price concessions. Configure, price and quote (CPQ) software is a critical component in any leakage-prevention strategy.
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Topics: Price and Revenue Management, Office of Finance, Financial Performance Management, Enterprise Resource Planning
