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8 S&OP “How To’s” with Lora Cecere

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 11:38 AM PDT

[Ed. note: In our May webinar, Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights and the Supply Chain Shaman blog, unveiled the results of a new study on supply chain agility and the role of S&OP in improving an organization's response capabilities. Following the webinar, Lora took a few questions from the audience but we couldn't get to all of them, so we threw out a short answer challenge. Answer 16 questions from the webinar as succinctly as possible. Here are the first eight in the series. -R] What is the most surprising thing you discovered researching the importance of agility? That only 13% of companies effectively tie S&OP planning to agility. How do you achieve agility when faced with long lead times (1 yr+)? I believe that the longer the lead times the greater the impact that agility techniques can have on the supply chain.  This is accomplished by modeling demand and supply volatility and building playbooks to anticipate these impacts on supply chain reliability.  A mature S&OP process helps companies to align against variability.  How can you visualize the process of sales and operations for long-term future, if this is so volatile? Through role-based dashboards. What is your perspective of impact of “external changes” on stable industries such as mining, oil, gas etc?  Customers simply need coal, oil or gas they do not care how these products are e.g.… Read the rest

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