Steelwedge Software

Steelwedge Software

Valentine’s Day and Your Day Job: What Does Your Planning Say About You?

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 12:04 AM PST

Last week, I had the pleasure of listening in on a thought-provoking discussion led by Chris Turner, co-founder of StrataBridge Consulting on the S&OP Control Paradox.  Chris dropped a series of compelling statistical breadcrumbs about the rapidly changing path for creating and operating a competitive global business.  His numbers showed the aggregate impacts of natural disasters, oil prices, internal complexity and technology adoption on businesses of all kinds.  But his main point wasn't about WHAT is driving integrated business planning in global organizations: Chris urged the audience to take a hard look at HOW they were putting their planning to work.   Integrated Business Planning, which brings together strategic and operational planning into a single line of sight, got its start in the 1980's as Sales & Operations Planning, with large companies looking to balance demand and supply planning for better organizational control.  For business in that era, having a solid annual  plan that controlled inventory, production and distribution from one view of demand made absolute sense.  But in today's world of changing customer demand, growing global supply chains with intricate interdependencies, and massive disruption, can we afford to "lock in" our planning at the cost of limiting growth?… Read the rest

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