What Sales & Operations Planning really is and What it can do for you

When sales and operations activities are not aligned and integrated, small problems can quickly escalate into large issues, which can adversely impact a company's performance. As each area of the company jostles for position to satisfy it's own priorities, valuable time and resources are wasted, ultimately leading to poor business performance.

It seems that every company today is implementing Sales and Operations Planning or looking to improve it. Most are implementing a meeting or a series of meetings, or a forecasting process where they try to get sales to commit to the supply chain - often without much success. Certainly most will fail to engage the executive on any kind of permanent basis.

What is a great shame is to see a process invented and developed by Oliver Wight misused and misunderstood to such an extent that most companies will never get the fantastic benefits the process can deliver.

Oliver Wight call the process Integrated Business Management - S&OP.

Oliver Wight run seminars on a regular basis where you will learn how it is that Oliver Wight customers get the benefits it seems others do not. You will have it explained why all the functions in the business greet the process with enthusiasm and commitment once they understand what it can really deliver in terms of alignment, growth and performance. In particular why it is that the executive team uses this process to really manage the business in an integrated fashion.

These seminars are free except of course for your time.

Seminar programme

Seminar Dates for 2008:
12 March 2008 - Oxfordshire
10 April 2008 - Northamptonshire
16 October 2008 - Cheshire

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