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/
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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)
AVATA is adding to their express solutions suite with “IBP express”, a hosted service offering that provides the framework for conducting the S&OP/IBP process with supported dashboard reports and KPI’s. IBP express will allow for a rapid deployment enabling your first S&OP/IBP cycle within 90-days.
IBP express is both a technology tool and service offering that supports advancing your current S&OP process or implementing S&OP/IBP for the first time. IBP express includes the required Education, Workshops, Coaching & Technology that will deliver a rapid ROI.
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
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)
AVATA is adding to their express solutions suite with “IBP express”, a hosted service offering that provides the framework for conducting the S&OP/IBP process with supported dashboard reports and KPI’s. IBP express will allow for a rapid deployment enabling your first S&OP/IBP cycle within 90-days.
IBP express is both a technology tool and service offering that supports advancing your current S&OP process or implementing S&OP/IBP for the first time. IBP express includes the required Education, Workshops, Coaching & Technology that will deliver a rapid ROI.
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) 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
This workshop focused on the elements of focus, alignment, and commitment building as it relates to an effective S&OP process. It was presented at the Business Forecasting and Analytics Forum in Boston on June 6th, 2017
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.
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) OverviewMichael Ryan
Improved revenues, business performance, and customer satisfactions are outcomes of a strong Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process.
S&OP can be applied to a variety of industries, from cosmetics to aftermarket parts manufacturers.
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.
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/
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.
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
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.
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) 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
This workshop focused on the elements of focus, alignment, and commitment building as it relates to an effective S&OP process. It was presented at the Business Forecasting and Analytics Forum in Boston on June 6th, 2017
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.
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) OverviewMichael Ryan
Improved revenues, business performance, and customer satisfactions are outcomes of a strong Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process.
S&OP can be applied to a variety of industries, from cosmetics to aftermarket parts manufacturers.
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.
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/
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.
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
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.
Sourcing and Procurement Best Practices During Uncertain TimesWorkday, Inc.
Procurement organizations need the right tools and insights to assess sourcing activities within the supply base and react quickly in the face of supplier disruptions. Watch this webinar replay to hear how Scout RFP has helped Workday ensure continued operation and delivery, supplier stability, and financial resilience.
A group of 6 students, in the 4rth grade in the Faculty of English commerce, prepared a a Presentation about S&OP as it was tasked by Professor Ibrahim ElShaer.
for any further questions contact:
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Best Practices in Financial Planning and Analysis | 2013 Business Analytics S...Cartegraph
Loras College is proud to present our annual Business Analytics Symposium on March 27, 2014 at the Grand River Center in Dubuque, IA. Industry experts will share their insights about the evolving field of business analytics opportunities. Learn about everything from best practices when analyzing data to the importance and benefits of building a culture of analytics within your organization.
To learn more, secure your seat or to take advantage of group discounts visit www.loras.edu/bigdata.
Finding and Mining Value Hidden in Operations - The ProAction GroupThe Proaction Group
In this set of slides, you'll find an overview of ProAction's role, values, a few case studies covering diligence through exit, as well as several team member bios.
How to implement a strategic IT vendor management programJeff Kubacki
CIO's and their IT leadership teams should focus more time on a strategic IT vendor management program. After doing this for 8 years by conducting annual IT vendor days and implementing World Class IT principles, I decided to share what has worked and why it is important in the transition to becoming strategic business partners.
CSCMP 2014: Using S&OP to Improve Enterprise ResiliencyAlyssaVallie
The supply chain is an increasing complex system. Leaders use Sales and Operations Planning to drive data-driven business discussions while laggards catch orders and manage transactions. Learn successful S&OP strategies to improve enterprise resiliency and how this creates a tight and reliable pattern of delivering costs while managing inventory cycles.
The Bottom Line on Agility: Bringing FP&A and Accounting Together to Drive Tr...Workday, Inc.
Today, FP&A needs to do more than just protect the bottom line—it needs to uncover and flawlessly execute opportunities for improvement. Traditionally, FP&A and Accounting work together once the books are closed to begin planning. But this takes time, which can result in stale data and make it hard to drive strategic changes, such as acquisitions or new product launches.
Delivering Value with Financial Performance: Leading FP&A Practices of High-G...Proformative, Inc.
The FP&A organization along with the rest of finance is undergoing a transformation, with increasing responsibilities and their accompanying challenges, all of which have to be undertaken with limited resources. FP&A leaders, like their peers in other finance groups, are being asked to elevate their focus and extend their reach across the organization, while still delivering on traditional blocking and tackling activities. Hear from FP&A leaders who have created significant company value while navigating high growth business environments. Learn how best practices – on KPIs, planning cycles, rolling forecasts, and other techniques – have enabled high performance, both for their functions and for their overall business.
Speakers: Eileen Tobias, Sr. Director of FP&A, NetSuite
Eric Zimmerman, Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis, Infusionsoft
Presentation delivered at ProformaTECH 2014 - http://www.proformatech.com
Track: Operational Advantage | Session: 4
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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/
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
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- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
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https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
3. The S&OP
process was
first developed
in the1980’s.
1980’s 1990’s 2000’s Today
S&OP evolved from supply
chain execution activities
such as MRP (material
requirements planning)
Today, S&OP is
used across the
Global 1000
4. Sales and Operations Planning
(S&OP)
A integrated business process that drives
collaboration, focus and alignment across
multiple divisions and departments in a
company
6. S&OP
• Aligns different teams around a common plan
• Balances supply and demand
• Identifies discrepancies between planning numbers
• Improves sales forecasts
• Reduces the long-term impact of unexpected events
7. Typical S&OP Results
50-70% reduction in planning cycle time
15-30% improvement in forecast accuracy
10-20% reduction in excess inventory
25% reduction in stock-outs
5% lift in revenue and margin
Source: Steelwedge Client Aggregate Performance Results
8. S&OP IS…
A strategic approach that links the Business Plan
with current Demand/Supply Plans
A cross-functional, collaborative process
focusing on improving business performance
A structured, formal, holistic set of monthly
consensus business disciplines
9. S&OP is NOT…
x Informal, analysis-paralysis meetings
x A “silver bullet” solution to resolve all business
problems
x A short-term business issue resolution process
15. 90% of companies believe an S&OP process
can improve agility and impact business results
Source: Supply Chain Insights, 2012
16. That’s a significant opportunity for productivity improvement
But only 13% of companies can tie S&OP
directly to execution and measure results
Source: Supply Chain Insights, 2012
17. Your S&OP process will be driven by continuous,
incremental improvement.
Start by implementing small changes and improve on
them each month. This is the S&OP maturity process.
18. The S&OP maturity process
Level 3:
Strategic Collaboration
Level 2:
Decision Making
Level 1:
Fundamentals
19. Maturity Level 1: Fundamentals of S&OP
Bring together
• People, process, & technology
Compile
• Sales in units, revenue & currency data
Take action
• Forecasting
• Supply and demand balancing
20. Maturity Level 2: Decision-Making
Choose
• The best path to attain business drivers,
revenue and profit
Align
• The strategic plan with sales, operations and
financial plans
Compromise
• Competing groups should understand tradeoffs
—financial and operational—to achieve
Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
21. Maturity Level 3: Strategic Collaboration
Create
Collaborative process for internal
business inputs
External communication channels with
customers, suppliers, partners
Use
Technology to support processes via
workflows and plan performance reviews
24. 1. Demand and Supply Visibility
Challenge
Multiple systems, outdated information, aggregate level detail,
growing volume of data.
Opportunity
• Data cleansing to improve account information
• Delete duplicate documents and information
25. 2. Collaborative Forecasting
Challenge
Multiple forecasts for sales, operations and finance are
difficult to reconcile.
Opportunity
• Use S&OP meetings to set a cross-functional plan that
achieves margins rather than acting independently of
each other
26. 3. New Product Introduction
Challenge
Limited interdepartmental visibility in new product planning
Opportunity
• Increase visibility to planned launch dates and forecasts
with easy-to-access tools
• Make sure new product planning is included in S&OP
process to align supply with demand plans
27. 4. Supply Planning
Challenge
Excess inventory, supply constraints, limited supplier
response times
Opportunity
• Use the S&OP process to set a strategic planning horizon
and drive supply plans ahead of need.
• Strategic planning reduces "fire-fighting", improves fill
rates and lowers inventories
28. 5. Monthly Review Meetings
Challenge
Ad Hoc process without clearly defined roles.
Opportunity
S&OP team should present the following to department
leadership and executives for approval:
1. A process plan—including situation, objectives,
strategies and tactics
2. Measurements—including margin goals, sales metrics
and operational targets
29. 6. Performance Management
Challenge
Metrics not clearly defined with periodic updates and
exception alerts to mitigate outliers
Opportunity
• See #5
• Capture forecast accuracy and bias factors at various
levels of aggregation
• Use a manage by exception approach to address issues
and solidify improvements
30. 7. Executive S&OP
Challenge
Lack of sponsorship and buy in, no connection with
company’s strategic and financial objectives
Opportunity
• See #5 and #6
• S&OP involves all levels of organization. Top level
management participation is critical to set expectations
and make key decisions
31. Unique Challenges
Executive S&OP 1. Lack of sponsorship or buy in
2. No connection with company’s strategic and financial
objectives
Performance Management 1. Metrics not clearly defined
2. No periodic updates or exception alerts to mitigate outliers
Monthly Review Process 1. Ad hoc process
2. No clearly defined roles
Supply Planning 1. Excess inventory
2. Supply constraints
3. Limited supplier response times
New Product Introduction 1. Limited visibility to NPI for Operations
Collaborative Forecasting
& Planning
1. Multiple forecasting views for sales, operations and finance
that are difficult to reconcile
Demand & Supply Visibility 1. Multiple systems with growing volume of data
2. Outdated information with no aggregate level detail
31
Summary of the 7 Critical Factors
33. S&OP balances Demand and Supply
and is the first step to future-looking
Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
34. The IBP Roadmap
As recently as 8
years ago, each
company had ONE
S&OP process
IBP
Your S&OP/IBP Process
• Execution level
• Order fulfillment
• Master scheduling
• Strategic level
• Supply & demand
balancing
• Executive level
• What-if scenario
planning
• Financial Analysis
Today Month 1-2 Month 5-18Month 3-4 Month 19+Past
You are here
S&OP
Execution Planning
35. Achieving Corporate Goals with IBP
IBP maximizes:
• Cost & margin visibility
• Revenue & profit
• Geographic coverage
• Product life cycle management
• Plan and budget alignment
36. For more perspective on your IBP journey:
www.steelwedge.com
A Single Line of Sight: Plan, Perform, Profit