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
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/
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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/
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.
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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/
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/
Sales and Operations Planning Worst PracticesPamela Stroud
Best practices in S&OP and demand planning are well known and well documented. Maybe less well documented but more widely known are the worst practices. During this session we’ll discuss a few of the more interesting of these worst practices and explore ways to avoid them.
CSCMP 2014: Bayer: Putting the S Back in S&OPAlyssaVallie
Balancing production efficiency and responsiveness to demand has never been more important or more challenging for companies with manufacturing-dominant cultures. Bayer Health Care shares their journey to S&OP excellence and how emphasizing the “S” in S&OP led to the successful redesign of its processes, overcoming ERP shortcomings to align market priorities with manufacturing capacity and extract the maximum competitive advantage from its supply chain.
JDA Software’s industry-proven supply chain management solutions, designed to empower midsized companies to minimize risk, achieve rapid ROI and increase profits.
Companies can tackle today's most pressing challenges, improve supply chain responsiveness and increase profitability in as quickly as four months with JDA’s unique, hosted offering for midsized businesses.
For more info, visit http://jda.com/TSVSSR.
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.
With thanks to Cherwell Software. Please visit http://bit.ly/tftCherwell for a short 2 minute video.
Synopsis: A woman is found dead in a closed room, with a broken window. CSU team walks - can we break down the service they are about to perform using the ITIL framework?
A pair of detectives have been following an undercover informant all day long, when he meets his hunted mafia boss - "Call for Backup - I'm going in.", shouts the lead and runs in. Within minutes, the place is swarming with cop cars. Does this sound like Major Incident Management?
Most Americans keep a small backpack, with their very essential things, close to the quickest exit path from their houses. Some even test it once in a while. And there are some that include a 'zombie destruction kit' in it. Is it just me, or does this sound like preparing for service continuity - if the service was to survive.
In this discussion, let's see if there are concepts of ITIL framework that are valid outside the scope of IT and can help improve the business itself, among other things.
To find out more about TFT, the only 24 hour global virtual ITSM conference, visit www.tomorrowsfuturetoday.com
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
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
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
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
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/
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/
Sales and Operations Planning Worst PracticesPamela Stroud
Best practices in S&OP and demand planning are well known and well documented. Maybe less well documented but more widely known are the worst practices. During this session we’ll discuss a few of the more interesting of these worst practices and explore ways to avoid them.
CSCMP 2014: Bayer: Putting the S Back in S&OPAlyssaVallie
Balancing production efficiency and responsiveness to demand has never been more important or more challenging for companies with manufacturing-dominant cultures. Bayer Health Care shares their journey to S&OP excellence and how emphasizing the “S” in S&OP led to the successful redesign of its processes, overcoming ERP shortcomings to align market priorities with manufacturing capacity and extract the maximum competitive advantage from its supply chain.
JDA Software’s industry-proven supply chain management solutions, designed to empower midsized companies to minimize risk, achieve rapid ROI and increase profits.
Companies can tackle today's most pressing challenges, improve supply chain responsiveness and increase profitability in as quickly as four months with JDA’s unique, hosted offering for midsized businesses.
For more info, visit http://jda.com/TSVSSR.
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.
With thanks to Cherwell Software. Please visit http://bit.ly/tftCherwell for a short 2 minute video.
Synopsis: A woman is found dead in a closed room, with a broken window. CSU team walks - can we break down the service they are about to perform using the ITIL framework?
A pair of detectives have been following an undercover informant all day long, when he meets his hunted mafia boss - "Call for Backup - I'm going in.", shouts the lead and runs in. Within minutes, the place is swarming with cop cars. Does this sound like Major Incident Management?
Most Americans keep a small backpack, with their very essential things, close to the quickest exit path from their houses. Some even test it once in a while. And there are some that include a 'zombie destruction kit' in it. Is it just me, or does this sound like preparing for service continuity - if the service was to survive.
In this discussion, let's see if there are concepts of ITIL framework that are valid outside the scope of IT and can help improve the business itself, among other things.
To find out more about TFT, the only 24 hour global virtual ITSM conference, visit www.tomorrowsfuturetoday.com
Watch this webinar for a live workshop with our friends at SearchLab. SearchLab is a Chicago-based agency who has been able to foster trust and build a list full of client referrals using tools like WordStream and CallRail to produce amazing results.
Businesses are challenged to stay ahead of the latest trends and competitive developments while building a responsive and agile IT capability to support growth. However, since everyone has access to the same tools, technology alone does not offer a competitive advantage. Your advantage depends on how you apply technology—more specifically, on the people who lead, support and optimize your IT initiatives.
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We work on your sales and marketing needs while you focus on the core facets of your business strategy.
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Great organizations demand greater IT. To stay on budget, on schedule and in maintaining high quality standards organizations must lean towards the right service providers.
At Global Business Solutions, we deliver a high impact Sales and marketing Solution to companies across all Verticals. We provide our clients with excellent lead generations, setting appointments between companies and their prospective clients and helping companies to achieve revenues. We conduct Marketing surveys to make primary data easily available for your company.
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As the Business Outlook continues to evolve, so does your workforce needs. With this in mind Global Business Solutions aims for gathering your business requirements and staffing needs in order to source top-most talent for your team. As your recruiting partner, Global Business Solutions delivers an array of end-to-end flexible solutions from a varied number of industries.
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www.trinityp3.com
Introducing TrinityP3
• In 2000, Darren Woolley, a scientist and advertising creative director, founded TrinityP3 in Australia. His purpose was to help people to achieve commercial purpose through creative process. People, Purpose, Process – the ‘3P’s’ of TrinityP3.
• Sixteen years on, we’ve grown significantly, in size and in scope. We are Asia Pacific’s leading strategic marketing management consultancy with an international network of industry professionals, consulting at the leading edge of decision making in the marketing and advertising industry.
• Our aim is simple. We want to improve the marketing output of every single organisation that engages us.
• Generating improvement can mean challenging the norm and changing values within a marketing team or broader organisation. We guide our clients on this journey, emerging in a better place for the marketing team and its attributable effect on the organisation.
• We have built significant proprietary IP over the last sixteen years, including sophisticated agency search functionality, detailed financial benchmarking capability, extensive contractual experience and app or web-based evaluation tools.
• Our client base includes more than 50 of the world’s top 100 advertisers. We continue to grow in experience, geographical footprint and expertise. We continue to challenge thinking – our own, and that of our clients.
• Our consultants all possess at least ten years of experience in a specialised field within marketing and procurement.
• We enjoy a high profile in the Australian market and have produced extensive industry material in the form of articles, blog posts, webinars, speaking engagements and opinion pieces. To see the extent of our work in this area, please visit http://www.trinityp3.com/blog/.
ROI Definitions
Typically, TrinityP3 adds value in a pitch process by ensuring the following:
1. That the needs of marketing and advertising are clearly articulated and fulfilled by the process.
2. That the process meets the highest standards of due diligence and corporate governance.
3. That the principles of procurement and marketing are accommodated in the process to achieve the best outcome for both the client and the suppliers.
We flex within the requirements of specific clients as much as possible, within scope; no two processes are exactly alike.
For clarity, we have split the definition of ROI into three components.
Financial ROI: Optimal Efficiency, Optimal Effectiveness.
Operational ROI: Refined Process, Refined Delivery.
Post-Project ROI: The Benefits of a Productive Agency Relationship.
The Five Most Important KPIs for Services CompaniesJeanne Urich
The 5 financial metrics critical to the success of services organizations.
How to apply these KPIs to drive new levels of growth and profitability.
Near, and long term, recommended actions.
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
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/
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/
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
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/
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/
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/
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.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.