Sales Inventory & Operations Planning October 19, 2011

Early-bird price $895 per attendee until September 9th 2011

Best practices in S&OP
This workshop is a practical guide to designing and implementing an internal collaboration process to improve your planning and integrate into the business management.

Implementing an efficient and cost-effective Sales and Operations Planning Process brings together all elements of Sales, Marketing, Finance and Operations into one integrated set of plans.

We will discuss the key components of the S&OP process – the mechanics, reports, consensus and hand-offs as well as the metrics. Participants will walk away with practical insights to all aspects of S&OP and pre-formatted excel templates for use in their process.
What will you learn?

- The key components of an effective Sales and Operations Planning process
- How to implement a quick-hit S&OP process using our five-step approach
- How to achieve a consensus demand forecast for use in supply chain planning
- How to identify and present supply constraints
- How to create and use sales, production and inventory plan templates to balance supply and demand
- How to apply the principles of exception in S&OP
- How to create and use a supply chain score-card