Enabling Best-Practice Demand Management and S&OP with Advanced Technology
Featured Presenter:
Doug Dedman, Vice President, Global Services, Steelwedge Software
Are you taking full advantage of all your demand signals? The sheer velocity of change – in business complexity, global volatility and available data – makes the prospect of managing regional and global planning a more elusive mission. Powerful demand planning can take you from a reactive to a proactive mode and turbo-charge your S&OP process.
In this webinar, you will learn how next-generation technology has enabled companies to more accurately forecast what their businesses will require.
Join us to learn more about how the right demand management approach and platform can enable you to:
Understand and grasp each demand type
Ensure accountability to the demand plan
Benefit from statistical forecasting where it makes sense while maintaining flexibility to use other forecasting methods
Collaborate internally and with customers when it makes sense
Achieve real-time visibility and synergy across all channels
To learn more about Steelwedge's Advanced S&OP Technology please visit: http://www.steelwedge.com/solutions/
A simple, straight forward set of 25 slides which provides the basics of S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) from concept to implementation. (Used to introduce and discuss S&OP concepts with clients and prospective clients.) S&OP is also know as IBF or IBP (IBF = Integrated Business Forecasting; IBP = Integrated Business Planning)
S&OP Framework and Case Study (PlayStation) Presented at the Business Forecasting and Predictive Intelligence Summit. San Francisco October 17th -18th 2013
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP): An IntroductionSteelwedge
Do you know the secret to a successful Sales and Operations Planning process?
Your ability to troubleshoot issues, plan for unexpected events, and maintain a reliable, single set of planning numbers is drastically affected by people, process and technology.
Educate your colleagues or refresh your own skills with the new introduction to S&OP presentation.
For more information about S&OP and how Steelwedge can help your business, please visit: http://www.steelwedge.com/resources/sales-and-operations-planning-intro/
A simple, straight forward set of 25 slides which provides the basics of S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) from concept to implementation. (Used to introduce and discuss S&OP concepts with clients and prospective clients.) S&OP is also know as IBF or IBP (IBF = Integrated Business Forecasting; IBP = Integrated Business Planning)
S&OP Framework and Case Study (PlayStation) Presented at the Business Forecasting and Predictive Intelligence Summit. San Francisco October 17th -18th 2013
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP): An IntroductionSteelwedge
Do you know the secret to a successful Sales and Operations Planning process?
Your ability to troubleshoot issues, plan for unexpected events, and maintain a reliable, single set of planning numbers is drastically affected by people, process and technology.
Educate your colleagues or refresh your own skills with the new introduction to S&OP presentation.
For more information about S&OP and how Steelwedge can help your business, please visit: http://www.steelwedge.com/resources/sales-and-operations-planning-intro/
Best Practices in Demand Planning and Sales ForecastingHatim Ratlami
In this white paper will walk you through the best practices necessary to improve demand planning and create supply chain efficiency. Our approach to process design is consensus and customer driven!
Before designing a demand planning program, you should ask the Forecast customer about the content and characteristics of the demand plan. Since Demand planning is customer driven, a Sales Forecasting Process is an integral part of this initiative.
The demand planning process should be designed to deliver an accurate forecast - right product, right time and right location! The demand plan should have consensus from all organizational functions on the demand side.
This is only possible if Sales Forecast intelligence can be obtained without much interruption to the Sales Force.
Please visit www.demandplanning.net to have a look at our services, clients, case studies and upcoming workshops. Also a lot of free research papers and online learning videos.
Best Regards,
Hatim Ratlami
hatimr@demandplanning.net
www.demandplanning.net
S&OP Leadership Exchange: Tailoring S&OP to Fit your BusinessPlan4Demand
866.P4D.INFO | Plan4Demand.com | Info@plan4demand.com
Andrew McCall, S&OP Solutions Lead at Plan4Demand Discusses how tailoring your S&OP process to fit your business is critical to achieving bottom line success.
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and integrated business planning (IBP) align demand, supply and finance, allowing a holistic view across all departments so that businesses can test the financial impact of different “what if” options and respond to unplanned events--both positive and negative. Visit http://www.steelwedge.com/resources/s-and-op-intro
Sales & Operations Planning is popularly known as S&OP and is a process which has evolved from SCM. It looks at balancing demand with supply and can be applied in most of the industries. The phase- wise process is depicted in the presentation
S&OP is a monthly global process to balance supply and demand, bringing all business operational plans into one integrated plan. All activities is based on a common Forecast data set. The ultimate target for S&OP therefore is to balance Supply and Demand.
Enhance your audiences knowledge with this well researched complete deck. Showcase all the important features of the deck with perfect visuals. This deck comprises of total of thirty four slides with each slide explained in detail. Each template comprises of professional diagrams and layouts. Our professional PowerPoint experts have also included icons, graphs and charts for your convenience. All you have to do is DOWNLOAD the deck. Make changes as per the requirement. Yes, these PPT slides are completely customizable. Edit the colour, text and font size. Add or delete the content from the slide. And leave your audience awestruck with the professionally designed S And Op PowerPoint Presentation Slides complete deck. http://bit.ly/38gtxh2
Featured Presenter - Lora Cecere, Founder and CEO, Supply Chain Insights
In today’s increasingly complex and dynamic business environment, companies must have the agility to make fast, intelligent, and profitable decision. Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is a major pathway forward to make that happen. Recent research shows that companies that are more mature on S&OP have twice the levels of alignment and agility than their counterparts who are lower on the maturity scale.
Join us for a webinar with noted supply chain thought leader and author Lora Cecere to understand the steps to take and the pitfalls to avoid along the road to S&OP agility.
On November 19 at 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT, Lora will address:
- The evolution of S&OP processes and how to build demand and supply processes that align with top-line business goals.
- The steps necessary to achieve the right balance between commercial and operations teams—the key to execution and achieving results.
- Which metrics drive alignment and how the metrics change as S&OP processes mature.
- How supply chain centers of excellence effectively manage regional and global governance to balance rising complexity and volatility with the execution of the plan.
There is significant buzz in the marketplace around Integrated Business Planning (IBP). This cross-functional business process enhances the traditional Sales and Operational Planning process. In this webinar, hear Spinnaker’s point of view on Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and how it’s enabled through SAP’s IBP suite of applications. You will learn how IBP can enable you to cultivate, coordinate, and complete integrated business planning with real-time information.
A Practitioner’s Guide to Successful S&OP and Demand ManagementSteelwedge
Many companies that have become “best-in-class” at S&OP have something in common: they have implemented successful strategies and tactics for building and securing approval for their S&OP technology business case. Learn firsthand from leading experts how to take you and your company to S&OP and integrated business planning (IBP) success.
Register today and hear experienced practitioners who will share with you:
- Why so many S&OP initiatives fail?
- How to get started with S&OP and how to sustain success?
- What’s the power of proven S&OP processes and technology?
- How to remove barriers to S&OP success?
- What works and what doesn’t
The How and the Why of Making a Smart S&OP Technology SolutionSteelwedge
While sales and operations planning (S&OP) has been around for 30 years, there remains significant opportunity for companies to fully benefit from it. Many manufacturers “get stuck” at the supply/demand balancing level and never progress into Integrated Business Planning (IBP). Why? It’s because the vast majority of companies still use Excel and manual efforts to drive their S&OP processes.
While no company will ever completely abandon spreadsheets, those who attempt to achieve S&OP maturity with only disconnected processes and solutions will never drive truly collaborative, scalable planning. The alternative lies in selecting the right technology to power S&OP to the next level.
In this webinar, Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights, will provide direction on:
How the right S&OP technology can render big business benefits
How S&OP technologies have changed over time
How to select the S&OP solution that best fits your requirements
How to avoid the pitfalls of implementation
Join this session to understand how technologies have changed and how you can select the solution that best fits your requirements.
Who should attend:
S&OP and Supply Chain Leadership
Demand/Forecast Planners
Business Planners
Heads of IT
Anyone involved in or leading an S&OP RFP project
Best Practices in Demand Planning and Sales ForecastingHatim Ratlami
In this white paper will walk you through the best practices necessary to improve demand planning and create supply chain efficiency. Our approach to process design is consensus and customer driven!
Before designing a demand planning program, you should ask the Forecast customer about the content and characteristics of the demand plan. Since Demand planning is customer driven, a Sales Forecasting Process is an integral part of this initiative.
The demand planning process should be designed to deliver an accurate forecast - right product, right time and right location! The demand plan should have consensus from all organizational functions on the demand side.
This is only possible if Sales Forecast intelligence can be obtained without much interruption to the Sales Force.
Please visit www.demandplanning.net to have a look at our services, clients, case studies and upcoming workshops. Also a lot of free research papers and online learning videos.
Best Regards,
Hatim Ratlami
hatimr@demandplanning.net
www.demandplanning.net
S&OP Leadership Exchange: Tailoring S&OP to Fit your BusinessPlan4Demand
866.P4D.INFO | Plan4Demand.com | Info@plan4demand.com
Andrew McCall, S&OP Solutions Lead at Plan4Demand Discusses how tailoring your S&OP process to fit your business is critical to achieving bottom line success.
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and integrated business planning (IBP) align demand, supply and finance, allowing a holistic view across all departments so that businesses can test the financial impact of different “what if” options and respond to unplanned events--both positive and negative. Visit http://www.steelwedge.com/resources/s-and-op-intro
Sales & Operations Planning is popularly known as S&OP and is a process which has evolved from SCM. It looks at balancing demand with supply and can be applied in most of the industries. The phase- wise process is depicted in the presentation
S&OP is a monthly global process to balance supply and demand, bringing all business operational plans into one integrated plan. All activities is based on a common Forecast data set. The ultimate target for S&OP therefore is to balance Supply and Demand.
Enhance your audiences knowledge with this well researched complete deck. Showcase all the important features of the deck with perfect visuals. This deck comprises of total of thirty four slides with each slide explained in detail. Each template comprises of professional diagrams and layouts. Our professional PowerPoint experts have also included icons, graphs and charts for your convenience. All you have to do is DOWNLOAD the deck. Make changes as per the requirement. Yes, these PPT slides are completely customizable. Edit the colour, text and font size. Add or delete the content from the slide. And leave your audience awestruck with the professionally designed S And Op PowerPoint Presentation Slides complete deck. http://bit.ly/38gtxh2
Featured Presenter - Lora Cecere, Founder and CEO, Supply Chain Insights
In today’s increasingly complex and dynamic business environment, companies must have the agility to make fast, intelligent, and profitable decision. Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is a major pathway forward to make that happen. Recent research shows that companies that are more mature on S&OP have twice the levels of alignment and agility than their counterparts who are lower on the maturity scale.
Join us for a webinar with noted supply chain thought leader and author Lora Cecere to understand the steps to take and the pitfalls to avoid along the road to S&OP agility.
On November 19 at 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT, Lora will address:
- The evolution of S&OP processes and how to build demand and supply processes that align with top-line business goals.
- The steps necessary to achieve the right balance between commercial and operations teams—the key to execution and achieving results.
- Which metrics drive alignment and how the metrics change as S&OP processes mature.
- How supply chain centers of excellence effectively manage regional and global governance to balance rising complexity and volatility with the execution of the plan.
There is significant buzz in the marketplace around Integrated Business Planning (IBP). This cross-functional business process enhances the traditional Sales and Operational Planning process. In this webinar, hear Spinnaker’s point of view on Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and how it’s enabled through SAP’s IBP suite of applications. You will learn how IBP can enable you to cultivate, coordinate, and complete integrated business planning with real-time information.
A Practitioner’s Guide to Successful S&OP and Demand ManagementSteelwedge
Many companies that have become “best-in-class” at S&OP have something in common: they have implemented successful strategies and tactics for building and securing approval for their S&OP technology business case. Learn firsthand from leading experts how to take you and your company to S&OP and integrated business planning (IBP) success.
Register today and hear experienced practitioners who will share with you:
- Why so many S&OP initiatives fail?
- How to get started with S&OP and how to sustain success?
- What’s the power of proven S&OP processes and technology?
- How to remove barriers to S&OP success?
- What works and what doesn’t
The How and the Why of Making a Smart S&OP Technology SolutionSteelwedge
While sales and operations planning (S&OP) has been around for 30 years, there remains significant opportunity for companies to fully benefit from it. Many manufacturers “get stuck” at the supply/demand balancing level and never progress into Integrated Business Planning (IBP). Why? It’s because the vast majority of companies still use Excel and manual efforts to drive their S&OP processes.
While no company will ever completely abandon spreadsheets, those who attempt to achieve S&OP maturity with only disconnected processes and solutions will never drive truly collaborative, scalable planning. The alternative lies in selecting the right technology to power S&OP to the next level.
In this webinar, Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights, will provide direction on:
How the right S&OP technology can render big business benefits
How S&OP technologies have changed over time
How to select the S&OP solution that best fits your requirements
How to avoid the pitfalls of implementation
Join this session to understand how technologies have changed and how you can select the solution that best fits your requirements.
Who should attend:
S&OP and Supply Chain Leadership
Demand/Forecast Planners
Business Planners
Heads of IT
Anyone involved in or leading an S&OP RFP project
Sales Planning vs. Demand Planning: Getting Sales Back Into S&OP
Featured Presenter:
Danny Smith, Vice President, Industries, Steelwedge Software
In recent years, functions other than Sales – including Supply Chain and Finance – have often taken ownership of predicting future sales. The process has become an aggregation exercise done by specialists, and the name itself – demand management – indicates that the Sales team is not intimately involved. But true S&OP requires Sales to “own their number,” which delivers company-wide benefits because Sales is the closest to the demand signal.
In this webinar you will learn about:
- The Sales Planning Challenges
- The Keys to Success
- How a Sales Planning Platform Can Help You Hit Your Number
Profitably Addressing Complexity in ManufacturingJDA Software
JDA Software delivers the transformational technology, best practices and expertise that manufacturers need to excel in today’s complex, dynamic environment. The cloud-based JDA Manufacturing Planning suite delivers the market’s leading integrated manufacturing planning capabilities for profitably satisfying customers while optimizing global inventories and resources.
The JDA Manufacturing Planning suite enables you to:
◾Segment demand to create profitable prioritization across the enterprise
◾Increase agility to effectively address change and disruption
◾Simulate buy-make-move-store-deliver scenarios to support informed decision making
◾Orchestrate planning processes to globally optimize resources, materials and assets
Providing industry-leading demand planning, inventory planning, supply chain planning, factory planning and scheduling, order promising and sales and operations planning capabilities, the JDA Manufacturing Planning suite helps manufacturers demonstrate the core tenets of high-performing supply chains — customer centricity, segmentation, business agility, synchronization and optimization.
◾Synchronize cross-functionally and provide global visibility
◾Drive plans based on true demand
◾Leverage segmentation to maximize service and profit opportunities
◾Eliminate latency and drive responsiveness
◾Drive efficiencies through optimized use of resources
CIMA Dublin MIAGEN on FP&A Best Practices June '15MIAGEN
Make Better Decision making through dynamic Rolling Forecasting & Best Practices in FP&A - delivered by MIAGEN to CIMA Dublin as part of Adaptive Insights Breakfast Briefing series
With Demand Sensing forecast optimization, your company can translate future sales plans into orders. By generating a short-term forecast that accounts for signals from the marketplace, Demand Sensing generates a better predictor of your business by harmonizing multiple streams of data. Harness the power of real-time data with Demand Sensing to:
– Improve customer service
– Minimize production costs
– Improve cash flows
– Streamline Demand Planning Process
20141028 michael ryan ibf orlando - dp from the ground upMichael Ryan
The core building block of a successful Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process is a solid demand planning process. Carlisle Brake & Friction (CBF), the leading provider of high performance braking had the need to implement a Demand Management Engine as their primary tool to facilitate the demand planning process. The presentation focuses on the S&OP process, from creating the need, to laying out a road map, as well as building the Demand Planning capability.
High Tech Perspective: Overlooked Opportunity from S&OPSteelwedge
Steelwedge Agility Webinar Series
Featured Presenter - Dennis Omanoff, a well respected leader, consultant and lecturer who has lead end-to-end global supply chains at major multi-billion dollar public companies and start-ups
Kick off the New Year with perspective from Dennis Omanoff, whose deep experience as Chief Supply Chain officer at some of the High Tech industry's largest manufacturers like Seagate and MacAfee will illuminate a discussion on the hit-and-miss realities of using S&OP to make a difference in High Tech business. Mr. Omanoff will offer his view and real world examples, of where S&OP strategy, practice and technology could be better used to sense and respond to the changing dynamics that are a particular challenge in the High Tech industry.
Register for this webinar to learn about how you can approach the most overlooked potential of S&OP in High Tech customer value networks: Driving Top Side Revenue.
Key topics include:
• the biggest, and most overlooked opportunity of S&OP
• connecting “the other side” of the sales order
• changing focus from 30 day P.O.’s to daily/weekly change response
Presenters:
Dennis Omanoff is a well respected leader, consultant and lecturer who has lead end-to-end global supply chains at major multi-billion dollar public companies and start-ups in the Information Security, Networking, Storage, Telecom and Retail sectors.
Nari Viswanathan is the VP of Product Management and Marketing at Steelwedge and was previously the lead Supply Chain analyst at Aberdeen.
For more information about S&OP, please visit: http://www.steelwedge.com/solutions/
S&OP RFP 101: Evaluating Your ERP Vendor’s Solution vs. the Best-of-BreedSteelwedge
Your company may be running SAP, Oracle or other legacy ERP systems, but are their collaborative S&OP modules really the right choice for your company? Put another way: ERP systems create a solid “body” for your company, but the “brains” may be lacking.
In this webinar, we will discuss how the Steelwedge Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) solutions provide the brainpower for SAP and Oracle offerings. Join us to learn the key criteria to use when choosing an S&OP solution.
This webinar is designed for companies considering implementing collaborative S&OP technology who need to understand how to overcome common business, technical and organizational challenges. Join us to learn from our S&OP experts about the recommended project phase components and key project milestones, as well as the inherent value found in the newest features and functionality.
We will also discuss the primary function of S&OP: to ensure adherence to strategic business objectives. Doing this will provide demonstrable results, including:
Reduction of planning cycle times
Improvements in forecast accuracy
Reduction in stock-outs
Increase in revenue and/or margin
Demand Planning Leadership Exchange: Demand Sensing - Are You Ready? Plan4Demand
866-P4D-INFO | info@plan4demand.com | www.plan4demand.com
Gary Griffith and Joel Argo combine over 25 years of statistical forecasting experience to discuss the capabilities of Demand Sensing, what it is and what it isn’t, how this near-term forecasting method integrates with your mid to long term forecasts, and tips to shift pragmatically towards a demand-driven culture in your organization.
This session will cover key things to consider when approaching the concept of Demand Sensing in your organization, when and who should use it, and how it fits within different business scenarios.
Key take-a-ways include:
• Understanding of key concepts, capabilities & business benefits
• Overview of Demand Sensing technology considerations & system integration points
• Typical data requirements & modeling techniques
• How this next generation technique may be a fit for your organization
Is your organization ready to reap the benefits of Demand Sensing?
Oracle & USJade Power Breakfast Presentations: Sales & Operations PlanningJade Global
In a live event hosted by Oracle and USJade, these presentations were provided by special guest speakers and subject matter experts Mel Nelson of APICS, and Stephen Zadig from the ClariPhy Advisory Board. In an interactive meeting with manufacturing professionals they explored the benefits, challenges, tips and best practices of next generation Sales & Operations Planning.
Developing a Road Map and Business Case – Deloitte Sponsor SessionSAP Ariba
How do you structure your procurement transformation program to optimize benefits within a complex environment? Based on its experience with 300+ procurement technology projects, Deloitte shares insights and lessons learned in preparing for and delivering a procurement technology transformation program. Build the road map, underpin with the business case, and succeed in delivering change.
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Range-based S&OP: How to Tame Demand Volatility in 3 StepsSteelwedge
Featured Presenter:
Blake Johnson, Consulting Professor, Stanford University
Demand forecasts are critical input to your business plan, yet forecast error is unavoidable. Supply chain agility can overcome this error with capacity and inventory, but comes at a cost. The solution? Proactively plan for a range of demand and supply within your sales and operations plan.
In this webinar, Stanford Consulting Professor Blake Johnson will share how to implement his “Range-based S&OP” best-practice to answer the following questions:
- How forecastable is demand over the planning horizon?
- What is the right type and amount of supply chain flexibility?
- What level of supply chain flexibility optimizes P&L and customer delivery performance?
Attendees at this session will learn how to:
- Achieve predictable financial and operational results in an uncertain world
- Balance supply chain flexibility vs. financial impact
- Deliver the best possible operating and financial performance
Collaborative Demand Planning: A Requirement for Successful Integrated Busine...Steelwedge
KPMG will share real-world examples of the value of integrated business planning (IBP), as well as its philosophy, experience and framework for making IBP a sustainable reality.
During this webinar you will learn:
• The critical elements for successful IBP that many companies miss
• The common pitfalls companies face in IBP initiatives and how to avoid stalling at tactical S&OP
• An intuitive approach for more effective collaborative demand planning, one the of vital factors of IBP success
While alignment between demand, supply and finance is essential for sales and operations planning (S&OP) success, each use different planning terms. As a result, many companies struggle to translate these terms into the “language” that each department speaks. Marketing and Sales use revenue terms, Operations plans in volume (cases, eaches, liters, kilograms) and Finance measures by revenue and margin. To make the translation even more challenging, different stakeholders plan at different levels of aggregation—or “dialects.” Some plan at the Product Family level, some at SKU and others at the Regional and Divisional level.
This webinar will explore how powerful S&OP technology seamlessly translates planning data from across the organization and all levels of aggregation into relevant units of measure to provide essential stakeholder insights.
Join this webinar to fully understand:
- The translation obstacles that all companies face
- The high costs associated with disjointed planning
- Best practices to overcome translation challenges and ensure efficient and effective planning
Revenue Growth or Cost Control? Strike the Right Balance with S&OP and Demand...Steelwedge
In the years after The Great Recession of 2008, companies focused their energy and attention in driving efficiency and being more cost effective. Forecast accuracy became even more important. However, in the last 2 years the global economy has shown revival signs and growth is now both a possibility and a priority. But, how can companies continue to drive cost efficiency and, at the same time, foster growth?
Revenue Growth or Cost Control? Strike the Right Balance with S&OP and Demand Planning TechnologyThis webinar will discuss S&OP in the context of balancing control vs. growth—with a look at the prospects and pitfalls of balancing global, regional and local planning and decision making. We will discuss how an established S&OP process and the right technology:
Enables top executives to drive their strategic agenda all the way to the operational and transactional layers
Helps companies to maintain financial and operational control while fostering revenue growth
Creates the agility to pursue both external growth opportunities and internal drive for growth through innovation
Join us to learn how to optimize your company’s approach to drive growth, whether you are new to S&OP and Demand Planning or you are evolving your strategy and process.
Using Key Metrics to Supercharge Your Demand Management and S&OP ProcessSteelwedge
Forecast accuracy is the single most important metric for demand planning, and quite possibly for the entire sales and operations planning (S&OP) process. If you start with an accurate forecast, the rest of the process is a lot easier. Improvements in forecast accuracy have a cascade effect, leading to reductions in inventory, improvements in customer service/reductions in stock outs, and eventually to increases in gross revenues and/or margins. But do you really understand forecast accuracy, and how to properly leverage it for results?
In this webinar, we will focus on explaining the foundations of forecast accuracy metrics:
How to measure forecast accuracy
Selecting the most meaningful offset or lag period
Units vs. revenue
Aggregation levels
Time buckets: Weeks, months or quarters
Impacts to functional groups: Sales, Marketing, Demand Planning
Strategies for transparent and effective tracking for improved results
Social Supply Chain and Sales Pipeline BridgeSteelwedge
Social Supply Chain: Linking Sales Intelligence to Supply Chain and Finance What Do Cloud, Your Demand Plan, S&OP and Sales Pipeline Have in Common?
Undoubtedly, you have a lot of good information in your CRM system. But do you know how to best leverage it to manage your entire business, from Sales to Supply to Finance?
Join Bruce Richardson, Chief Enterprise Strategist at salesforce.com for the webinar, "Social Supply Chain: Linking Sales Intelligence to Supply Chain and Finance - What Do Cloud, Your Demand Plan, S&OP and Sales Pipeline Your Have in Common?"
This webinar will provide guidance on how to fill the "missing link" in your sales and operations planning (S&OP) process-leveraging the intelligence contained in your sales pipeline to inform your consensus demand planning process. This is an important step towards the Social Supply Chain. Bruce will explain how you can:
1. Evolve your operations into a Social Supply Chain
2. Aggregate pipeline information for supply/demand balancing and operations planning decisions
3. Provide visibility and insight into significant pipeline assumptions, expectations and changes
4. Translate pipeline confidence into accurate revenue and margin projections for better Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
To learn more about S&OP or IBP please visit: http://www.steelwedge.com/solutions/
From Surviving to Thriving - Leveraging People, Process and Systems to Achiev...Steelwedge
- Hear the S&OP success story of Contech Engineered Solutions, a leading national civil engineering solutions provider. Contech has achieved significant growth with an agile S&OP process and platform
- Discover how the Contech team collaborates through S&OP technology and processes to achieve a holistic view of demand, supply and inventory, and drive better decision-making—all of which has led to a 40% decrease in inventory and a 10% improvement in on-time customer service
- Learn about the sales and operations planning (S&OP) challenges most companies face and how to overcome them to drive lasting and extensive value
New Year, New Approach: Take Your S&OP, Demand and Supply Planning Processes ...Steelwedge
Featured Presenters:
Frank Kang, Managing Director, Supply Chain and Operations Advisory Services, KPMG
Peter Yu, Director, Supply Chain and Operations Advisory Services, KPMG
Ed Lewis, Vice President, Product Marketing and Planning, Steelwedge Software
Whether your company is already advanced in its Integrated Business Planning (IBP) journey or is just starting to consider Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), it can benefit from improved strategic and tactical alignment and increased agility.
Please join us for this free webinar to learn about the many opportunities best-practice S&OP processes and technologies offer. The results? You meet financial targets, strengthen customer relationships and establish accountability within your organization by integrating your demand/supply planning with long-term strategic business goals.
You will learn about:
- The questions to ask when evaluating the effectiveness of your planning processes and deciding where and how to start on an effective IBP journey
- A discussion on leading IBP Operating Model capabilities
- The opportunities offered by the right technology to continuously improve your business planning processes
Featured Presenter - Peter Bolstorff, Author and Process Expert
Is your journey to Sales & Operations Planning maturity a bumpy road? You’re not alone.
This unique interactive diagnostic webinar will explore what causes S&OP to perform better in some years than in others. Join Steelwedge and Peter Bolstorff, author and process expert, for a moderated real-time assessment to take your business’ pulse across the key factors that can get –and keep—your plans on track:
• Trading Partners
• Organization
• Physical Flow
• Process Flow
• Technology
• People
For more information about S&OP please visit: http://www.steelwedge.com/solutions/whats-new/
What Great Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) Feels Like!Steelwedge
Featured Presenter - Tom Wallace, S&OP Author and Educator
Like most manufacturing organizations, you likely have some quantitative measurement goals for your Sales & Operations Planning initiative. But, like the saying goes, it’s not just how it looks (metrics) but importantly, how it feels (organizational impact).
Join Steelwedge and industry educator, author and reknowned S&OP practice leader, Tom Wallace, for a live webinar to test your S&OP “feel factor”. In this interactive session, you will learn examples and ideas for your people, process and technologies to achieve some great feeling S&OP, including:
• Fewer surprises, resolved quickly
• 18+ months of forward visibility
• Enthusiastic engagement of top management and
• Delivering on strategic goals with S&OP
Your Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) Analytics: Crystal Ball or Ball and...Steelwedge
Featured Presenter: Bob Ferrari, Ferrari Consulting and Research Group
Rising corporate risk and reward - around the ever-trickier gambit to balance supply and demand is producing a world of new opportunity:
• New Skills: Supply Chain MBAs top Wall Street Journal list in 2013
• New Tools: Cloud-based analytics and planning solutions are delivering today on visibility not previously possible
• New Way of Thinking: 'What if' scenarios are helping mitigate risk and reward for those agile enough to connect plan with execution
Do your S&OP team, process and technologies give you a holistic, predictive look at your business potential, like a Crystal Ball, to get in front of demand shifts, new product prospects and supply cost factors? Or are you stuck in an articulated, but sequential monthly S&OP process that weighs down decision-making within the confines of the schedule and a rigid software system, like a ball and chain?
Please join noted Supply Chain thought leader and analyst, Bob Ferrari, in an interactive webinar on Tuesday, August 13th to learn more about how you can build and polish your corporate Crystal Ball with the right focus and leverage of advanced planning analytics that can blend the best of backward and forward looking context on your business.
For more information about Steelwedge's analytics, please visit: http://www.steelwedge.com/solutions/insight/
The ROI of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) MaturitySteelwedge
How far is your company on its Sales and Operations Planning maturity journey? Have you hit a brick wall? According to Gartner, nearly 70% of manufacturers are getting "stuck" at Stage 2 maturity: balancing supply and demand.
The vast majority of companies use Excel to power their S&OP. While no one ever abandons Excel, those who try to power through maturity with only Excel or a collection of disparate, unconnected solutions, usually hit a brick wall when it comes time to driving collaboration and scale in their plans.
Download the ROI of S&OP Maturity presentation to see how well your company is performing and learn how you can break through to S&OP maturity value.
For even more information, or to contact us, please visit http://www.steelwedge.com/
Is Your Global Planning Like Whack-a-Mole? [Part 1]Steelwedge
Steelwedge Agility Webinar Series
Featured Presenters - Tom Wallace, S&OP Author and Educator, TF Wallace & Company and Nari Viswanathan, Vice President, Product Marketing & Management, Steelwedge
The sheer velocity of change - in business complexity, global volatility and available data is making the prospect of managing regional and global planning a more elusive mission, a bit like hitting a whack-a-mole with a mallet - only to have another pesky problem pop up somewhere else.
This session will explore how to tie together smart strategy and integrated software to capture and scale a process that can out-flex even the gnarliest of planning challenges.
Join S&OP author and educator, Tom Wallace, and Steelwedge VP, Nari Viswanathan, to learn how to:
• Do more with S&OP beyond "just" supply/demand balance
• Go global with smart strategy and scalable technology
• Turn your big data into big insights
• Build an agile enterprise: outmaneuver volatility
The Pursuit of Growth: Is Your Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) "Glocal" ...Steelwedge
Steelwedge Agility Webinar Series
Featured Presenter - Chris Turner, Co-Founder of strategy and change management consulting firm, StrataBridge
Picking up from his popular September Webinar: S&OP Strategy to Bridge the Agility Gap, Chris Turner advances the dialogue on S&OP and the shifting balance of control vs. growth—this time with a look at the prospects and pitfalls of balancing global, regional and local planning and decision making. This interactive session will explore the issues surrounding the globalization paradox and the complexities of the ever flattening (but still lumpy and uneven) world. He’ll take the discussion beyond just geography—to get to the issues that strategic business planning needs to address for enabling growth.
This event will question some traditional S&OP/IBP beliefs that could be hampering your business’ success and will address 7 areas of focus to reset your global potential:
• Strategy choices: Where to play? How to win?
• Organizational shape: its impact on decision-making
• Key decisions: critical touch points to drive coherent actions
• Making better decisions with partial information: the implications
• Leveraging technology: separating the signal from the noise
• Trial, error and learning: faster results through heuristics
• Overcoming the Laws of Change and Entropy
To learn more about S&OP please visit: http://www.steelwedge.com/solutions/
Process-Enabled Technology: Driving Maximum Benefit from Your S&OP InitiativeSteelwedge
Conventional wisdom says that the sales and operations planning (S&OP) process should be completely defined before technology is implemented. This approach has been advocated by both process consultants as well as ERP and APS technology providers. The real reason for this is that these tools are not purpose-built for S&OP and lack the flexibility to adapt rapidly to business processes. Thus, companies have historically had to settle with a serial approach to process and technology.
For more information about S&OP please visit: http://www.steelwedge.com/solutions/
7 Principles of Highly Effective Sales & Operations PlanningSteelwedge
Steelwedge Agility Webinar Series
Presenter: Peter Bolstorff, author of Supply Chain Excellence
Successful supply chain planning is not just a function of ‘doing more’ leading practices. The best supply chain planning organizations have picked appropriate leading practices as dictated by the markets they serve and integrated them together with their chosen technology platform to achieve competitive advantage.
Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is a foundational leading practice that cuts across all industries, according to Peter Bolstorff, an internationally recognized supply chain practitioner, speaker, educator, consultant and author. Actionable research from Mr. Bolstorff’s project experience suggests that in addition to S&OP, the best supply chain planning organizations have adopted seven principles:
1. Systematic management of ‘master data’
2. Synchronized S&OP, tactical planning, and execution processes and horizons
3. Mature collaborative processes for both key customers and suppliers reconciling forecast, orders, and yearly volume
4. Data oriented understanding of the inputs to the forecast
5. Intense focus on ‘point-of-sale’ or ‘sell through’ data (versus sales orders and ‘sell in’)
6. Disciplined product life cycle management process
7. A continuous improvement approach to understanding consumer or user behavior
Join Peter and Steelwedge for an interactive webinar featuring examples of these principles from some of the best demand-driven organizations.
"What If" Analysis: How to Develop Corporate Muscle Memory with IBPSteelwedge
Steelwedge Agility Webinar Series
Presenter: Oliver Wight Principal, Eric Deutsch
Great performing companies, like great performing athletes, practice regularly for optimizing “business as usual.” For planning, 90% of businesses today employ Sales and Operations Planning process to try to keep their businesses conditioned. Yet, as recent research from Supply Chain Insights underscores: few do it well. There is a 60 point spread between agile aspirations and actual performance. Only 27% of companies think they are agile enough to capitalize in a volatile environment and see around the blind spots of uncertainty.
A difference-maker? Integrated Business Planning and “What If” Scenario Modeling. In this live webinar, Eric Deutsch, principal with Oliver Wight consulting, and EJ Tavella, VP of Strategic Sales and Solutions, will explore how businesses can:
• develop more agile IBP plans based on a foundation of well-managed assumptions;
• develop “muscle memory” with longer-range contingency plans as well as ad-hoc near-term “What If” scenarios drills;
• visualize where to focus their continuous improvement efforts to shorten the time to respond; and
• leverage technology to optimize real-time results.
How Agile is Your Business? New Research on Agility TrendsSteelwedge
Steelwedge Agility Webinar Series
Featuring Lora Cecere, Supply Chain analyst and author of the enterprise software blog "Supply Chain Shaman" with Nari Viswanathan, Steelwedge
Companies want to be more agile in driving growth regardless of volatililty in the global business environment. But there is no clear, consistent industry standard definition of business agility. To better understand what this means and how organizations like yours are using S&OP to drive supply chain agility, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights and former Supply Chain Analyst and Partner with Altimeter Group, conducted a survey of business professionals in April about the importance of agility in business planning. On May 15th, Lora will be sharing her analysis of this research during her featured webinar.
View recorded webinar to learn how others are prioritizing and enabling agility in their organizations. Get tips from Lora and Steelwedge’s VP of Product Marketing, Nari Viswanathan on how you can use S&OP to drive better resilience in your operation.
The S&OP Control Paradox: Folly in a Volatile World?Steelwedge
Steelwedge Agility Webinar Series
Featured Speaker: Chris Turner, Co-Founder, Stratabridge
On February 7, Steelwedge kicks off its 2012 Agility series of live webcasts with Chris Turner, co-founder of strategy, innovation and operations consulting firm StrataBridge and Ed Lewis, VP of Product Planning at Steelwedge. This session, The S&OP Paradox, will explore where S&OP sits at the cross hairs of planning to plan and planning to change. It will address how to optimize your company's approach to drive growth, regardless if you are new to S&OP, or you are evolving your existing strategy and process.
Listen to the keynote address and hear about the latest developments from Rachana Ananthakrishnan and Ian Foster who review the updates to the Globus Platform and Service, and the relevance of Globus to the scientific community as an automation platform to accelerate scientific discovery.
Designing for Privacy in Amazon Web ServicesKrzysztofKkol1
Data privacy is one of the most critical issues that businesses face. This presentation shares insights on the principles and best practices for ensuring the resilience and security of your workload.
Drawing on a real-life project from the HR industry, the various challenges will be demonstrated: data protection, self-healing, business continuity, security, and transparency of data processing. This systematized approach allowed to create a secure AWS cloud infrastructure that not only met strict compliance rules but also exceeded the client's expectations.
top nidhi software solution freedownloadvrstrong314
This presentation emphasizes the importance of data security and legal compliance for Nidhi companies in India. It highlights how online Nidhi software solutions, like Vector Nidhi Software, offer advanced features tailored to these needs. Key aspects include encryption, access controls, and audit trails to ensure data security. The software complies with regulatory guidelines from the MCA and RBI and adheres to Nidhi Rules, 2014. With customizable, user-friendly interfaces and real-time features, these Nidhi software solutions enhance efficiency, support growth, and provide exceptional member services. The presentation concludes with contact information for further inquiries.
First Steps with Globus Compute Multi-User EndpointsGlobus
In this presentation we will share our experiences around getting started with the Globus Compute multi-user endpoint. Working with the Pharmacology group at the University of Auckland, we have previously written an application using Globus Compute that can offload computationally expensive steps in the researcher's workflows, which they wish to manage from their familiar Windows environments, onto the NeSI (New Zealand eScience Infrastructure) cluster. Some of the challenges we have encountered were that each researcher had to set up and manage their own single-user globus compute endpoint and that the workloads had varying resource requirements (CPUs, memory and wall time) between different runs. We hope that the multi-user endpoint will help to address these challenges and share an update on our progress here.
Cyaniclab : Software Development Agency Portfolio.pdfCyanic lab
CyanicLab, an offshore custom software development company based in Sweden,India, Finland, is your go-to partner for startup development and innovative web design solutions. Our expert team specializes in crafting cutting-edge software tailored to meet the unique needs of startups and established enterprises alike. From conceptualization to execution, we offer comprehensive services including web and mobile app development, UI/UX design, and ongoing software maintenance. Ready to elevate your business? Contact CyanicLab today and let us propel your vision to success with our top-notch IT solutions.
We describe the deployment and use of Globus Compute for remote computation. This content is aimed at researchers who wish to compute on remote resources using a unified programming interface, as well as system administrators who will deploy and operate Globus Compute services on their research computing infrastructure.
Providing Globus Services to Users of JASMIN for Environmental Data AnalysisGlobus
JASMIN is the UK’s high-performance data analysis platform for environmental science, operated by STFC on behalf of the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). In addition to its role in hosting the CEDA Archive (NERC’s long-term repository for climate, atmospheric science & Earth observation data in the UK), JASMIN provides a collaborative platform to a community of around 2,000 scientists in the UK and beyond, providing nearly 400 environmental science projects with working space, compute resources and tools to facilitate their work. High-performance data transfer into and out of JASMIN has always been a key feature, with many scientists bringing model outputs from supercomputers elsewhere in the UK, to analyse against observational or other model data in the CEDA Archive. A growing number of JASMIN users are now realising the benefits of using the Globus service to provide reliable and efficient data movement and other tasks in this and other contexts. Further use cases involve long-distance (intercontinental) transfers to and from JASMIN, and collecting results from a mobile atmospheric radar system, pushing data to JASMIN via a lightweight Globus deployment. We provide details of how Globus fits into our current infrastructure, our experience of the recent migration to GCSv5.4, and of our interest in developing use of the wider ecosystem of Globus services for the benefit of our user community.
Software Engineering, Software Consulting, Tech Lead.
Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Core, Spring JDBC, Spring Security,
Spring Transaction, Spring MVC,
Log4j, REST/SOAP WEB-SERVICES.
Strategies for Successful Data Migration Tools.pptxvarshanayak241
Data migration is a complex but essential task for organizations aiming to modernize their IT infrastructure and leverage new technologies. By understanding common challenges and implementing these strategies, businesses can achieve a successful migration with minimal disruption. Data Migration Tool like Ask On Data play a pivotal role in this journey, offering features that streamline the process, ensure data integrity, and maintain security. With the right approach and tools, organizations can turn the challenge of data migration into an opportunity for growth and innovation.
In software engineering, the right architecture is essential for robust, scalable platforms. Wix has undergone a pivotal shift from event sourcing to a CRUD-based model for its microservices. This talk will chart the course of this pivotal journey.
Event sourcing, which records state changes as immutable events, provided robust auditing and "time travel" debugging for Wix Stores' microservices. Despite its benefits, the complexity it introduced in state management slowed development. Wix responded by adopting a simpler, unified CRUD model. This talk will explore the challenges of event sourcing and the advantages of Wix's new "CRUD on steroids" approach, which streamlines API integration and domain event management while preserving data integrity and system resilience.
Participants will gain valuable insights into Wix's strategies for ensuring atomicity in database updates and event production, as well as caching, materialization, and performance optimization techniques within a distributed system.
Join us to discover how Wix has mastered the art of balancing simplicity and extensibility, and learn how the re-adoption of the modest CRUD has turbocharged their development velocity, resilience, and scalability in a high-growth environment.
Exploring Innovations in Data Repository Solutions - Insights from the U.S. G...Globus
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has made substantial investments in meeting evolving scientific, technical, and policy driven demands on storing, managing, and delivering data. As these demands continue to grow in complexity and scale, the USGS must continue to explore innovative solutions to improve its management, curation, sharing, delivering, and preservation approaches for large-scale research data. Supporting these needs, the USGS has partnered with the University of Chicago-Globus to research and develop advanced repository components and workflows leveraging its current investment in Globus. The primary outcome of this partnership includes the development of a prototype enterprise repository, driven by USGS Data Release requirements, through exploration and implementation of the entire suite of the Globus platform offerings, including Globus Flow, Globus Auth, Globus Transfer, and Globus Search. This presentation will provide insights into this research partnership, introduce the unique requirements and challenges being addressed and provide relevant project progress.
Code reviews are vital for ensuring good code quality. They serve as one of our last lines of defense against bugs and subpar code reaching production.
Yet, they often turn into annoying tasks riddled with frustration, hostility, unclear feedback and lack of standards. How can we improve this crucial process?
In this session we will cover:
- The Art of Effective Code Reviews
- Streamlining the Review Process
- Elevating Reviews with Automated Tools
By the end of this presentation, you'll have the knowledge on how to organize and improve your code review proces
How Does XfilesPro Ensure Security While Sharing Documents in Salesforce?XfilesPro
Worried about document security while sharing them in Salesforce? Fret no more! Here are the top-notch security standards XfilesPro upholds to ensure strong security for your Salesforce documents while sharing with internal or external people.
To learn more, read the blog: https://www.xfilespro.com/how-does-xfilespro-make-document-sharing-secure-and-seamless-in-salesforce/
Check out the webinar slides to learn more about how XfilesPro transforms Salesforce document management by leveraging its world-class applications. For more details, please connect with sales@xfilespro.com
If you want to watch the on-demand webinar, please click here: https://www.xfilespro.com/webinars/salesforce-document-management-2-0-smarter-faster-better/
Modern design is crucial in today's digital environment, and this is especially true for SharePoint intranets. The design of these digital hubs is critical to user engagement and productivity enhancement. They are the cornerstone of internal collaboration and interaction within enterprises.
Large Language Models and the End of ProgrammingMatt Welsh
Talk by Matt Welsh at Craft Conference 2024 on the impact that Large Language Models will have on the future of software development. In this talk, I discuss the ways in which LLMs will impact the software industry, from replacing human software developers with AI, to replacing conventional software with models that perform reasoning, computation, and problem-solving.
How Recreation Management Software Can Streamline Your Operations.pptxwottaspaceseo
Recreation management software streamlines operations by automating key tasks such as scheduling, registration, and payment processing, reducing manual workload and errors. It provides centralized management of facilities, classes, and events, ensuring efficient resource allocation and facility usage. The software offers user-friendly online portals for easy access to bookings and program information, enhancing customer experience. Real-time reporting and data analytics deliver insights into attendance and preferences, aiding in strategic decision-making. Additionally, effective communication tools keep participants and staff informed with timely updates. Overall, recreation management software enhances efficiency, improves service delivery, and boosts customer satisfaction.
Why React Native as a Strategic Advantage for Startup Innovation.pdfayushiqss
Do you know that React Native is being increasingly adopted by startups as well as big companies in the mobile app development industry? Big names like Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest have already integrated this robust open-source framework.
In fact, according to a report by Statista, the number of React Native developers has been steadily increasing over the years, reaching an estimated 1.9 million by the end of 2024. This means that the demand for this framework in the job market has been growing making it a valuable skill.
But what makes React Native so popular for mobile application development? It offers excellent cross-platform capabilities among other benefits. This way, with React Native, developers can write code once and run it on both iOS and Android devices thus saving time and resources leading to shorter development cycles hence faster time-to-market for your app.
Let’s take the example of a startup, which wanted to release their app on both iOS and Android at once. Through the use of React Native they managed to create an app and bring it into the market within a very short period. This helped them gain an advantage over their competitors because they had access to a large user base who were able to generate revenue quickly for them.
Experience our free, in-depth three-part Tendenci Platform Corporate Membership Management workshop series! In Session 1 on May 14th, 2024, we began with an Introduction and Setup, mastering the configuration of your Corporate Membership Module settings to establish membership types, applications, and more. Then, on May 16th, 2024, in Session 2, we focused on binding individual members to a Corporate Membership and Corporate Reps, teaching you how to add individual members and assign Corporate Representatives to manage dues, renewals, and associated members. Finally, on May 28th, 2024, in Session 3, we covered questions and concerns, addressing any queries or issues you may have.
For more Tendenci AMS events, check out www.tendenci.com/events