Webinar: S&OP: How to achieve both greater profitability and customer responsiveness

Beyond the spreadsheet to achieve S&OP maturity and a connected and agile supply chain

Unprecedented market volatility and complexity are putting traditional methods of S&OP under pressure. How is it possible to be both more agile and more efficient? Research shows that ‘best in class’ S&OP is helping organisations become more profitable while becoming more customer centric. Meanwhile, the laggards are bound to fixed processes, resourcing forecast errors and unanticipated issues.

S&OP is not new, however, what is new is the appreciation of the role it has to play in creating an agile, efficient and connected business. It is no wonder that according to recent JDA research that the top supply chain initiative that organisations are planning to pursue is the deployment of best in class Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) along with Integrated Business Planning (IBP).

This webinar is designed to help organisations achieve the higher levels of S&OP maturity that enable both improved profitability and customer responsiveness. You will learn how supply chain segmentation is being applied to capitalise on the differences between customers in order to provide both greater efficiency and profitability. Moreover, can a supply chain be both responsive to customers and more efficient? Professor Godsell of Warwick University will explain the latest thinking on the ‘customer responsive supply chain’. Hans Georg Kaltenbrunner, VP of Industry Strategy will talk about best practice in Segmentation, and new thinking on creating an end-to-end collaborative environment using new 'flowcasting' techniques.

In summary this webinar will provide practical guidance on how to evolve from a spreadsheet-bound regime of supply and demand balancing to a connected and agile environment that helps to encourage a collaborative and connected approach to S&OP and IBP.