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S&OP: Should Not Be a Hammer Seeking a Nail

Supply Chain Shaman

Organizations use S&OP as a hammer in search of a nail. As a contrarian voice in the industry, I want to share some research to steer the conversations towards a more fact-based dialogue. (I In this post, I want to focus on tactics that work and don’t drive success based on recent research of 107 business respondents.

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5 Recommendations towards a Resilient S&OP

Logistics Viewpoints

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) as a process has been around since the 1980’s. While the terminology evolved, the underlying thesis of S&OP has stayed the same, i.e., bridge the divide between sales forecasts and operational plans while respecting the budget.

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Direct Spend Management: A Checklist for Enabling Shared Value with Direct Suppliers

Logistics Viewpoints

Or they may have expertise in manufacturing processes and have flexible capacity to allow contract manufacturing for new product introduction. An example of this is Vendor Management Inventory and Capacity Collaboration for contract manufacturing. Nari Viswanathan is a six times SDCExec Supply Chain Pro to Know award winner.

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Lassoing S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

To align S&OP. As companies transitioned from regional to multi-national organizations, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes proliferated. The average company has seven S&OP processes, but a global chemical company averages over 30. Businesses are different. Reporting Structure.

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Lassoing S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

To align S&OP. As companies transitioned from regional to multi-national organizations, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes proliferated. Today, the average company has seven S&OP processes, but a global chemical company averages over 30. Each defining S&OP differently.

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Can S&OP become more continuous? Automation is key.

ToolsGroup

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), a process often focused around a monthly meeting, is evolving into a more continuous process. S&OP is a process where decisions are traditionally made once a month as a part of an executive review. Or as Gartner Research states, “The No. January 2016).

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Why Organizational Alignment is Critical to the Supply Chain Response

Supply Chain Shaman

Now the writing follows the research. I mix the quantitative research with my observations and interviews, and the posts seem to roll from my fingers. If you would like to participate in a current research study, we would love your help and participation in the contract manufacturing study. It was a struggle!)