Webinar:S&OP Has Been Promoted to Integrated Business Planning & Management

S&OP Has Been Promoted to Integrated Business Planning & Management

Webinar Details

This broadening of Sales and Operations Planning is evolving into what some companies call Integrated Business Planning or Integrated Business Management. Integration and alignment of all plans within the enterprise takes S&OP to the executive suite by enabling companies to ensure their supply chain decisions are synchronized with corporate strategy. Emerging process and technology capabilities can enable the executive management team to evaluate the business more holistically. The senior leaders of the business now have the capability to measure the financial trade-offs of different strategies and then execute optimal scenarios within the new product, marketing, sales, and supply management groups in a coordinated fashion.  
Join Larry Lapide, Ph.D., Director, Demand Management, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT-CTL), Colleen Crum, Managing Principal, Oliver Wight, and Fred Baumann, Vice President, JDA Software to discuss exciting new process innovations including insights from the Demand Management Solutions Group (DMSG).
Dr. Lapide is the Research Director of the DMSG and at MIT-CTL is responsible for managing its initiatives in Demand Management and Supply Chain Strategy Alignment.

Colleen (Coco) Crum will also share her insights from deploying best practices in S&OP.  As an author, consultant and educator with Oliver Wight Americas since 1995, Coco has assisted companies across the manufacturing spectrum, including agricultural chemicals, consumer goods, electronics, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and aerospace and defense industries.  She has co-authored books on S&OP, Supply Chain Management, and Demand Management.


Webinar Description

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) has been widely deployed for over 20 years as a key enabler of balancing supply with demand. S&OP has delivered value but has often been constrained and limited as an operational function. Companies are beginning to understand that the foundational alignment of supply and demand plans created within S&OP have far greater potential when more closely linked and aligned with an enterprise’s new product, financial and strategic plans.

Webinar Agenda

• The Evolution of S&OP to Integrated Business Planning to Support Worldwide Operations
• Contrasting the Differences Between S&OP and Integrated Business Management
• How Functional Mindsets Must Change to Move to an Integrated Process
• Technology Architectures Required to Support the Process
• The Value Proposition of Making the Transition to Integrated Business Planning & Management