This course is focused upon better business performance, through better planning and control of the business by top management. Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) is the traditional name for the process, although some have tried to introduce alternative titles, such as Integrated Business Management and SOFplan – Sales, Operations, and Financial Planning. The process is about ensuring that the top-level plans in the business – covering product management, sales, marketing, operations, resources, finance, engineering, human resources, IT – are all balanced to achieve the strategic plans of the organization, in the medium to long term.
Financial Planners
Cost Analysts
Professional Advisers
Account Personnel
Business Consultants
Professionals who require a more in-depth understanding of integrated planning & budgeting techniques
Accountants responsible for budget preparation & management reporting
Why do organizations need S&OP?
Where does it fit in the hierarchy of ERP and Supply Chain systems?
What are the benefits that can be achieved?
Who does what?
An introduction to the 5 step Sales & Operations Planning process.
Step 1 of the process.
Managing the product or service portfolio.
New product introduction, phasing out old products.
What is the overall objective of demand planning?
The essential difference between forecasting and demand planning.
The inputs to the demand planning process.
The logic of demand planning.
The outputs from demand planning – the data required to be passed on.
Demand planning exercise.
Demand planning & demand management.
The demand planning meeting.
What is the overall objective of supply and resource planning?
The inputs to the supply planning process.
The logic of supply planning.
The outputs from supply planning – the data required to be passed on.
The inputs to resource planning.
The logic of resource planning.
The outputs from resource planning – the data to be passed on.
A supply and resource planning exercise.
The supply & resource planning meeting.
What must be integrated?
What must be reconciled?
Who must be involved?
What is the agenda for the pre-S&OP meeting?
The importance of the financial numbers.
Identifying gaps between the budget and the S&OP numbers, and discussing potential action plans to close the gaps.
Planning the agenda for the executive S&OP meeting.
Publishing the information for senior management.
Who must be involved? Who runs the meeting?
The agenda for the S&OP meeting.
The review of each family to consider the balance of demand and supply.
The review of the overall financial numbers.
Decisions to be taken, the minutes of the meeting.
Identifying what can be improved in the next cycle.
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