S&OP Process
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Focused on the big issues, making effective decisions, driving action and growing your team
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Focused on the big issues, making effective decisions, driving action and growing your team
Focus on the big issues, never getting bogged-down in detail.
Make effective decisions, and engage the full team in implementing them
Generate high-impact actions – and see them executed
Anticipate issues and opportunities and place you in a position to respond early
Drive continuous improvements in service, cost and working capital
Run every month, on time with full engagement
Make good use of everybody’s time
Take stock of your strengths and weaknesses, set priorities, engage your team, plan the improvements
We work with you to assess your current process, comparing it with a best-practice model and measuring its performance in terms of service, cost and working capital.
Together we measure the drivers of performance and find the key levers that deliver the greatest benefit for your available resources and investment.
We help you to set targets, engage your team and plan your improvement programme.
We provide ongoing support and mentoring as you make the changes
Top-level process design for your future-state S&OP process
Roles responsibilities and accountabilities in the new process
Targets and measurement scorecard to track service, cost and working capital as well as key drivers such as forecast accuracy, production plan attainment and asset utilization
Project plan with deadlines, roles and responsibilities
Change management plan
Changes implemented and benefits delivered by your team with our guidance.
Get expert input and suggestions for improvement
We observe your S&OP process, read your reports and provide expert, objective feedback.
We work with you and your team to identify improvements and plan their implementation
Report containing our observations and outlining the strengths and weaknesses of your process.
Suggested improvement areas, potential benefits and approach towards gaining them.
Working sessions with your team to share our observations and suggestions
Ongoing mentoring and support to implement the changes.
Grow your team’s understanding of S&OP and Supply Chain Management
We provide hands-on, experiental training programmes, to grow your team’s understanding of S&OP and Supply Chain concepts.
We focus on collaboration and growing a cross-functional mindset.
Our experiential learning approach, gives your team the opportunity to learn through experience using simulations and practical exercises.
This approach is highly engaging, provides constant, immediate feedback and demonstrates the application of Supply Chain theory in practice.
The Fresh Connection is an innovative web-based business simulation game that engages participants in operating a virtual company. The juice manufacturing company’s performance has been declining. In teams of 4, participants must get the company back on track as quickly and efficiently as possible..
This business simulation game covers the end-to-end Supply Chain and introduces topics such as Supply Chain segmentation, analytics and measurement, S&OP, resilience and Supply Chain risk management.
