Steelwedge Software

Steelwedge Software

Need to Handle Change? “There’s an App for That”

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 02:52 PM PST

  Based on a recent Steelwedge survey of more than 160 business leaders: -89% are either experiencing or seeing signs of external volatility/change impacting their business and -91% are planning on internal change (products, channels, services, markets) to also create planning challenges Given that the majority of respondents face the need to manage some sort of change within their demand-supply networks, why is it that their S&OP processes are based on the paradigm of "business as usual?"  Why is the emphasis on a very rigid, prescriptive approach to managing the S&OP process when business does not behave in that manner?  It is disheartening, but not surprising to see the schism between the corporate strategic goals and the goal of the S&OP process. But this too, is beginning to change. During a series of integrated business planning seminars in Europe last week (Feb 7th, 8th and 9th), we discussed these issues with an audience of manufacturers and distributors from London to the Netherlands and we got the same perspective on anticipating change. In fact, since Europe is reeling under a tough financial climate, they expect to see significant amounts of change and volatility happen. It was our observation that European IT organizations are more entrenched in traditional, inflexible ERP systems which constrains their ability to respond rapidly to market conditions.  Add to that, the challenge of managing a proliferation of stand-alone systems for demand planning, supply planning, and business intelligence that require significant integration to work together.… Read the rest

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