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

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.

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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?

New Brochure out today

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Extract from Supply Chain Design and Optimzation -  Outperforming the Competition brochure. 

Oliver Wight Supply Chain Design and Optimization is an integrated market-driven process that helps you to design, plan and manage your supply chain to satisfy customers in the most profitable way.

A proven, practical approach, it takes into account the realities of your existing supply chain footprint but shifts the paradigm from cost containment and reduction, to driving product innovation and speed to market, so you can capture benefits that would otherwise pass you by.
Benchmarking your supply chain performance against your peers as well as best-in-class, Oliver Wight Supply Chain Design and Optimization will allow you to develop a supply plan in line with your business strategy, and build strategic relationships with suppliers and customers, however far up- or down-stream they are. The result is mutual capability and integrated strength and all the benefits that come with it.

Whether yours is a single site organisation or a multi-national, multi-site enterprise, Oliver Wight Supply Chain Design and Optimization means you can build a roadmap for sustained improvement, with clear and measurable milestones along the way. And the results are always spectacular: an optimised supply chain typically improves perfect order ratings by 17%. In an age when consumers are increasingly demanding and less loyal, that is an advantage well worth taking.

"Supply chains that deliver best-in-class service,
do so at half the cost of their peers"

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Upcoming Dates for your Diaries

Conferences/Seminars/Forums

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The links will take you to the Oliver Wight EAME website.

The Supply Chain Forum

05 March 2013
Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire 

 Supply Chain Design and Optimization Webinar

11 April 2013
Global 

Integrated Business Planning Innovation Summit

25 April 2013
Jumeirah Carlton Tower, London, UK  

SAPICS 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibition

02 June 2013
Sun City, Johannesburg, South Africa

15th Annual Europe Supply Chain & Logistics Summit

25 June 2013
Berlin, Germany 

Sales and Operations Planning Innovation Summit

17 October 2013
Berlin, Germany 

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

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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?

Supply Chain Design & Optimization - Building Supply Chain Relationships

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Extract from the Wight Paper.

With continued economic uncertainty and increasing global competition, the customer remains king. Whilst money may be tight, there seems no let up in consumer demand for superior service, increased value and competitive price. Inevitably, this brings ever-greater pressure for efficiency gains and performance improvement. The health of an organisation depends more than ever on its ability to successfully meet the needs of its customers. In today's business environment, this cannot be achieved merely through internal business improvement; it is dependent on optimisation of the entire supply chain.

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.

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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.