Events for 2014

Oliver Wight sponsors a number of forums and summits across Europe, along with a number of our own events  focused on current business issues including supply chain optimization and integrated business planning (IBP), as well as providing good networking opportunities. Below are the forthcoming events for 2014.

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Advancing S&OP to Integrated Business Planning

03-05 February 2014
Radisson Blu Hotel, Amsterdam

The Supply Chain Forum

04 March 2014
Whittlebury Hall, UK

Oracle Value Chain Summit

18 -19 March 2014
Amsterdam

SAPICS Annual Conference

01 - 03 June 2014
Sun City, Johannesburg, South Africa

Supply Chain and Logistics Summit

16 -18 June 2014
Palau de Congressos de Catalunya, Barcelona

The Supply Chain Forum

21 October 2014
Eastwood Hall, UK

The Oliver Wight Conference

18 -19 November 2014
Sheraton Brussels Airport Hotel, Brussels

FREE to register - Next IBP Webinar with Liam Harrington and Andy Walker

Integrated Business Planning Webinar

Wednesday 6th November 2013, 14:00 GMT

Liam Harrington

Andy Walker

Hosted by Oliver Wight Partners, Liam Harrington and Andy Walker

Business performance; it's your responsibility
You wouldn't accept under-performance driven by poor planning and silo behaviours if it was your business so why do you live with them in your organisation today?  Your organisation needs Integrated Business Planning, but done right...
This webinar will clearly demonstrate how Integrated Business Planning (IBP) allows an organisation to plan for success and then align the entire organisation to execute against this common plan.
Listeners will:

• Discover how IBP allows senior management to plan and manage the entire organisation in rapid time
• Learn how to cosy-effectively align all elements of strategic and tactical plans
• Influence executive decisions quicker, easier and more effectively
• Understand powerful steps to help your long-term planning issues

Free to register click here or for further information call Zoe Davis on +44 (0) 1452 397209.

More information can be found at the following wtg blog.

S&OP Innovation Summit 30-31 October 2013

Sales and Operations Planning Innovation Summit

30 October 2013 - 31 October 2013 

Oliver Wight is Gold Sponsor of the Sales and Operations Planning Innovation Summit in Berlin. 

Across the two days delegates will have opportunity to meet with Oliver Wight partners, Paul Archer, Andrew Walker and Birgit Breitschuh. Paul, who will be chairing Day One of the summit, will also be presenting a workshop at 11.15 on Day One on The Transition of S&OP to Integrated Business Planning.

Paul Archer, Oliver Wight Partner, presenting
The Transition of S&OP to Integrated Business Planning workshop,
30 Ocotber 2013

Upcoming Workshop from Oracle and Oliver Wight

Get more value from your value chain with Integrated Business Planning
Find the path to unlocking your company’s financial potentialThursday 17th October 2013 at the Oracle Customer Visit Center, Munich, Germany

Workshop Overview and Agenda
Oracle and Oliver Wight invite you to join us to learn more about Integrated Business Planning and how this highly effective process can be used to unlock your company's full financial potential. Companies successfully implementing Integrated Business Planning have realized the following improvements by having an effective, integrated business management process in place for aligning and realigning their strategic, business and operational objectives and core processes across all functions in their organizations:

• Reducing working capital by 25% 
• Increased forecast accuracy by 25% 
• Increased on-time delivery by 10-50% 
• Reducing obsolete inventory by 50% 
• Increased sales revenue by 15% 
• Increased productivity by 30% 
• Understanding the financial impacts of business scenarios that Integrated Business Planning delivers

Upcoming Events from Oliver Wight

Oliver Wight sponsors a number of forums and summits across Europe, along with a number of our own events  focused on current business issues including supply chain optimization and integrated business planning (IBP), as well as providing good networking opportunities. Below are the forthcoming events for 2013.

Click the link below for further information.

Integrated Business Planning Interactive Workshop

17 October 2013
Munich, Germany

Sales and Operations Planning Innovation Summit

30 October 2013
Berlin, Germany

Integrated Business Planning Webinar

06 November 2013
Webinar

Filming with supply chain optimisation experts Oliver Wight and ITN Productions

 
Want to see a behind the scenes video of our filming for @itn & @ciltuk new global #logistics & #transport channel?

"Business improvement specialists, Oliver Wight, have teamed up with ITN, to film an exciting documentary uncovering the secrets of Supply Chain success. This 'behind the scenes' footage was shot on location at Oliver Wight customer, Quality Furniture Company (QFC)

The new ITN film is being produced for the Global Logistics and Transport news channel, a collaboration between ITN Productions and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT). The film aims to capture the current state of global supply chains and how to manage them."

Liam Harrington

Features Quality Furniture Company and Oliver Wight associate, Liam Harrington.

Oliver Wight Event with Oracle Tomorrow 6th June 2013, UK

Get more value from your value chain with Integrated Business Planning
Find the path to unlocking your company’s financial potentialThursday 6th June 2013 at Oracle, Blythe Valley Park, Solihull, United Kingdom

Workshop Overview and Agenda
Oracle and Oliver Wight invite you to join us to learn more about Integrated Business Planning and how this highly effective process can be used to unlock your company's full financial potential. Companies successfully implementing Integrated Business Planning have realized the following improvements by having an effective, integrated business management process in place for aligning and realigning their strategic, business and operational objectives and core processes across all functions in their organizations:

• Reducing working capital by 25% 
• Increased forecast accuracy by 25% 
• Increased on-time delivery by 10-50% 
• Reducing obsolete inventory by 50% 
• Increased sales revenue by 15% 
• Increased productivity by 30% 
• Understanding the financial impacts of business scenarios that Integrated Business Planning delivers
  
  

This week's event! Integrated Business Planning Innovation Summit

Integrated Business Planning Innovation Summit

25 April 2013 - 26 April 2013 

Oliver Wight is delighted to be returning as Gold Sponsor to the Integrated Business Planning Innovation Summit. 

 

Managing Uncertainty with Integrated Business Planning

Oliver Wight workshop presented by Andrew Purton, Managing Partner - Oliver Wight EAME LLP.

Andrew Purton

Debbie Bowen-Heaton

The last five years have seen businesses having to deal with unparalleled levels of uncertainty. The debate continues - when will we come out of recession, and how quickly? The view of many organisations still seems to be that S&OP only "works" in a stable environment and so devote a large amount of time to working around the process. In this session, Andrew will demonstrate how Integrated Business Planning is the key to helping organisations deal effectively with uncertainty and make timely decisions in order to secure a profitable future.

Andrew will also be chairing day two of the summit. He will be joined across the two days by his colleague, Debbie Bowen-Heaton, Partner of Oliver Wight. Delegates will have opportunity to meet with Andrew and Debbie both at the stand and through scheduled 1-2-1 meetings. 


Event Photos

Andrew Purton talking to an attendee

Andrew Purton and Debbie Bowen-Heaton at the Oliver Wight stand

 

Integrated Business Planning for High Performance Businesses

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Extract from the Oliver Wight Executive Guide




Today, Integrated Business Planning sits at the heart of many organisations as the management process that runs the entire business. 

Integrated Business Planning provides the perfect platform for innovation, creating opportunities for you to drive sales up and costs down. It allows you to allocate resources to the most productive activities and react swiftly to ever-changing market conditions, to meet customer demand in the most efficient and profitable way. 

The real power of Integrated Business Planning is in enabling effective decision-making to control the future direction of your company. It makes the critical link between the strategic plans of your business and current reality, acting as an early warning system for any performance gaps. 

Integrated Business Planning gives your senior executive team an accurate and holistic view of your business over a 24 to 36 month horizon. Unforeseen events can be detected early and addressed with speed and agility through planned actions rather than fire-fighting. Which means you’ll always remain on course to achieve your business goals.

Click here to download the full guide. 

New Event Date added! 23 April 2013

JDA and Oliver Wight Integrated Business Planning Workshop - 23 April 2013

The ability to respond to changing market conditions is the key to business success. The Integrated Business Planning and S&OP Workshop will help you understand how to stay ahead of your competition.

Since 2007, businesses have experienced unprecedented levels of market volatility, and this volatility has led to wholesale adoption of Integrated Business Planning practices and S&OP processes. However, many companies are now concluding that management of such an important process is inefficient when relying on Excel, email and Powerpoint. JDA S&OP is designed to specifically address these requirements.
The workshop will enable you to:

• Understand how to manage the “gap” between the current plan and the annual operating plan.
  
• Analyse and view data through multiple lenses and to cope with a regional/global matrix process
• Administer the S&OP process itself using workflow, exceptions and audit trails
• Identify performance gaps early to ensure optimal profitability
• Learn how appropriate aggregation underpins the process of timely decision making
• Understand the importance of enabling accountability through transparent impact analysis and providing a “corporate memory”
• Support adoption through familiarity and ease of use
  

For further information and to register for the workshop click here

 

Integrated Business Planning for Effective Decision Making - Creating the decision imperative

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Extract from the Wight Paper.

Today, Integrated Business Planning sits at the heart of many organisations as the management process that runs the business, covering all the core functions from product development and operations, to sales, marketing and finance.

Its real power is in enabling the key decisions that influence the future direction of the company and the achievement of the strategic plan. As the capability of a business’s processes mature, these decisions become increasingly complicated and their timing ever more critical. 
 

However, the very practicality of structuring the Integrated Business Planning process so it really does enable effective and timely decision-making, is a challenge, which shouldn’t be underestimated. The most difficult decisions are those relating to issues, which will face the business in the future, since by definition, the future is unknown and there will always be unforeseen events, and circumstances that are subject to variation. Nonetheless decisions made today will have a defining effect on the business in one, two, or five year’s time. Deferring or avoiding these decisions can prove fatal. The key lies in configuring the Integrated Business Planning process, so it creates the same practical and emotional response for the decision-maker when reviewing future planned performance as it does when they are faced with the reality of past or current performance. It then becomes clear they have to act immediately to recover the situation.



Click here to download Wight Paper.

An Executive Guide to Performance Benchmarking

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Measure to improve

Extract from our Executive Guide.

A healthy supply chain is fundamental for business success. If not a revelation, it is a realisation that has well and truly dawned for companies of the recession generation. Whilst the world has certainly got much smaller, it has also become more complex, which means a real understanding of your supply chain is ever more critical. Making big decisions without full understanding of your supply chain is obviously a very risky business. Performance benchmarking allows you to identify precisely where you are – in absolute terms, and in relation to your competitors and peers – so you can then plan where you want to be, and how to get there. And the benefits need little explanation: improved customer service; increased productivity and efficiency; reduced cost, inventory and waste; lower capital requirement; enhanced portfolio development and management; reduced environmental impact; and improved competitive advantage.

  

 

"Providing best in-class service can halve your supply chain costs"

    
 
Whatever the industry, an optimised supply chain can be the difference between those organisations that succeed and those that do not. But if you don’t know how well you are performing, or what best-in-class performance looks like, how do you know where you can improve, or by how much? Ignorance is not bliss; in fact it’s a very dangerous practice. If your competitor’s supply chain is delivering better service than yours, you’ll find out eventually but unless you take the initiative, it might be the hard way. Critically, benchmarking your supply chain performance will allow you to identify performance gaps and provide a financial evaluation of the gains that can be made off the back of improvement action. And you can expect the potential savings to be many times the cost of benchmarking itself; gains typically run to £millions.

 

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20 questions you should ask about Integrated Business Planning - Part 2

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An Executive Guide to Integrated Business Planning
(Part 2)

 

 

	At what level of granualarity should you be planning for IBP?
	How does IBP exert control over the supply chain?
	Does IBP require a dedicated IT solution?
	How does globalisation and increase supply chain complexitiy impacted planning frequency?
	How does IBP allow for flexibility in supply chain planning?
	Can IBP optimise inventory?
	How long does it take?
	How much does it cost?
	What personnel do you need to commit to IBP?
	How do you get started?

20 questions you should ask about Integrated Business Planning - Part 1

To download full guide
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An Executive Guide to Integrated Business Planning
 (Part 1)

	What is Integrated Business Planning (IBP)?
	What are the principle goals of IBP?
	What are the biggest challenges implementing IBP?
	Who in the organisation owns the IBP process?
	How is the success of IBP measured?
	Is IBP only suitable for organisations of a certain size or level of planning sophistication?
	What are the key factors to consider in establishing a successful IBP process?
	How does the monthly IBP review process work?
	How do you decide which information is critical to the IBP process?
	How do you make sure data for IBP is clean, accurate and current?

New Oliver Wight EAME Workshop Brochure - 2013 Dates

 

More than ever, the health of an organisation depends on its ability to successfully meet the needs of customers. As demand for superior service, greater value and competitive pricing increases, businesses have to optimize performance not only within their own four walls, but up and down the supply chain too. In the headlong rush for improvement, companies often launch in to tackling processes and the corresponding tools with enthusiasm and vigour, but overlook the importance of people and behaviours. This is why we’ve developed a suite of educational workshops, designed with you and your people at the centre.

Building on popular workshops from previous years, our 2013 programme is packed with the latest thought-leading methodology and practice, and industry insight. With refreshed content and a renewed focus, you will find old favourites updated for today’s business environment, alongside the introduction of some exciting new workshops.

Click here to view the Digital Workshop Brochure.

Integrated Business Planning (IBP)

Today, at the leading edge of management thinking and practice, Integrated Business Planning (IBP) extends the concepts established by S&OP to all aspects of company planning and execution; from the boardroom to operational levels. IBP can most simply be described as advanced sales and operations planning (S&OP) but integration is what distinguishes IBP from its predecessor and it brings a truly strategic perspective. S&OP was originated by Oliver Wight more than twenty-five years ago and even in its purest form, S&OP has its short-comings in today’s business environment. If S&OP is a process designed for the supply chain to plan the factory (or factories), then IBP is designed for the executive team to plan the entire business - and in a fully integrated way.