Comments on: Excel, S&OP and the Comfortable Old Chair http://www.steelwedge.com/blog/excel-sop-and-the-comfortable-old-chair.html Best Practices in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:43:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Bonnie A. Dale http://www.steelwedge.com/blog/excel-sop-and-the-comfortable-old-chair.html/comment-page-1#comment-5927 Bonnie A. Dale Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:50:36 +0000 http://www.steelwedge.com/blog/?p=361#comment-5927 I had trouble with seeing your page properly via the latest version of Opera. Looks good in IE and Firefox however.Hope you have a nice day. I had trouble with seeing your page properly via the latest version of Opera. Looks good in IE and Firefox however.Hope you have a nice day.

]]> By: Frank Freehand http://www.steelwedge.com/blog/excel-sop-and-the-comfortable-old-chair.html/comment-page-1#comment-5911 Frank Freehand Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:00:10 +0000 http://www.steelwedge.com/blog/?p=361#comment-5911 Unless the Exel solution works standalone and allows the planner to work remotely and create plans, adjustplans, modify execution data feeds etc. it is pretty much a gimic by Steelwedge The key to an Excel solution is the loosely coupled freedom it gives planners and all others to modify data, the plan, etc. to simulate potential outcomes then share. There are Exel based solutions for S&OP that allow for this completely remote approach built much more like a "Blackberry" or Lotus Notes and less like an SAP server. It takes alot more work to build a solution as such but is what makes it rapid to deploy This approach truly does let the organization have its cake and eat it to but from what we have discovered not what Steelwedge offers Unless the Exel solution works standalone and allows the planner to work remotely and create plans, adjustplans, modify execution data feeds etc. it is pretty much a gimic by Steelwedge

The key to an Excel solution is the loosely coupled freedom it gives planners and all others to modify data, the plan, etc. to simulate potential outcomes then share.

There are Exel based solutions for S&OP that allow for this completely remote approach built much more like a “Blackberry” or Lotus Notes and less like an SAP server. It takes alot more work to build a solution as such but is what makes it rapid to deploy

This approach truly does let the organization have its cake and eat it to but from what we have discovered not what Steelwedge offers

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