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What’s Your S&OP Maturity Score? Answer 9 Questions to Find Out

Posted: 09 Dec 2014 11:26 AM PST

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) maturity is based on a progressive assessment of where your organization is in relation to the six layers that drive supply and operations planning success. The main reason supply chain executives should strive for S&OP maturity is for sustainability. It shouldn't go unnoticed that each S&OP process needs an owner […] The post What’s Your S&OP Maturity Score? Answer 9 Questions to Find Out appeared first on Steelwedge.

S&OP: Move from Looking Back to Looking Forward with What-If Scenarios

Posted: 18 Nov 2014 11:57 AM PST

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is a collaborative planning process designed to answer the question: Can we satisfy the request for product? The challenge is to identify and solve problems while they're still low level and before they can escalate to disrupt the supply chain. In the course of developing executive S&OP or integrated business […] The post S&OP: Move from Looking Back to Looking Forward with What-If Scenarios appeared first on Steelwedge.

Boost S&OP with Top-Down and Bottom-Up Strategy

Posted: 02 Nov 2014 12:34 PM PST

Have you lost faith in Sales forecasts? Does Sales consistently over or under estimate future sales activity? A multi-billion dollar global manufacturer is struggling. Two divisions of the company are at odds on how best to achieve world-class forecast accuracy. Regional sales account representatives provide forecasts well above historical sales levels. Why? Because inventories made […] The post Boost S&OP with Top-Down and Bottom-Up Strategy appeared first on Steelwedge.

Three Criteria for Selecting S&OP Technology

Posted: 21 Oct 2014 01:28 PM PDT

Even though, according to Gartner, organizations are expected to spend about $10 billion in 2014 on supply chain planning technology, poor forecast accuracy and demand variability remain the top obstacles to meeting supply chain goals. These have been the top two obstacles for the last seven or eight years for sales and operations planning (S&OP). […] The post Three Criteria for Selecting S&OP Technology appeared first on Steelwedge.

Six Details to Consider in Forecast Accuracy Measurement

Posted: 12 Oct 2014 01:50 PM PDT

What's your forecast accuracy telling you? Stop and ask a few questions. Forecast accuracy is an important performance metric in any effective S&OP process, but it can be measured in various ways. Comparing your company's accuracy to an industry standard will be difficult to impossible if you don't know the details behind the measurement. More […] The post Six Details to Consider in Forecast Accuracy Measurement appeared first on Steelwedge.

S&OP Technology Drives the Alignment that Enables Agility

Posted: 30 Sep 2014 09:39 AM PDT

Alignment and agility go together. The overall goal for S&OP as agility increases is to align on sales, orders, and shipments, but additionally to be able to align on market data, such as distributor pull through, retail sales, supplier inputs, and market drivers. Each goal along the way to S&OP maturity will require orchestration with technology […] The post S&OP Technology Drives the Alignment that Enables Agility appeared first on Steelwedge.

Who Has the Best Supply Chain? And Is That the Right Question to Ask?

Posted: 11 Sep 2014 02:50 PM PDT

How do you “rank” a supply chain? How can you compare the supply chain of a consumer packaged goods company to that of an automaker or a pharmaceutical company? Each one faces unique challenges, courts diverse customers, and encounters different risks. Gartner makes its annual assessment with its Supply Chain Top 25. It’s a relative […] The post Who Has the Best Supply Chain? And Is That the Right Question to Ask? appeared first on Steelwedge.

New Documentary Examines the Evolution from “Supply Chain” to “Value Chain”

Posted: 05 Sep 2014 01:11 PM PDT

The traditional notion of supply chain management takes a linear approach to moving goods from the supplier’s supplier to the customer’s customer. Anyone involved in the industry knows that today’s marketplace dynamics are anything but linear. So a “supply chain” becomes a bit of a misnomer. The term “value chain” was popularized in the 1980s […] The post New Documentary Examines the Evolution from “Supply Chain” to “Value Chain” appeared first on Steelwedge.

S&OP Agility is About Maturity

Posted: 29 Aug 2014 09:39 AM PDT

Agility in the supply chain is the ability to recalibrate the plan while maintaining comparable cost, quality and customer service. According to research by Supply Chain Insights, 85% of supply chains have experienced a disruption and 90% are grappling with skyrocketing costs and supply volatility. The ability to address these issues to maximize opportunities and […] The post S&OP Agility is About Maturity appeared first on Steelwedge.

Using S&OP to Reach Equilibrium – 5 Qualitative Factors

Posted: 27 Aug 2014 08:59 PM PDT

Equilibrium is the state at which market supply and demand are in balance. It's common sense to want to produce the amount of product that the market will bear, but that has traditionally been a difficult goal to achieve given the nature of change in today's markets. Sales and operations planning (S&OP) as an integrated […] The post Using S&OP to Reach Equilibrium – 5 Qualitative Factors appeared first on Steelwedge.

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