With the coming of age of the field of sales and operations planning, a cadre of experts has risen to promimence. While some of these “experts” are indeed “John-come lately’s” capitalizing on a new trend, others have decades of experience. The opportunities to learn from this small group of specialists who have grappled with S&OP challenges across multiple industries, circumstances and times is enormous. Several sources of expertise exist — academics with active consulting activities and deep practical experience, traditional manufacturing-field experts, and technologists with experience in automation. Of these sources, Steelwedge has found the insights and best practices developed by academics and certain industry consultants to be particularly valuable. Sales and Operations Planning experts Dr. Tom Mentzer and Dr. Kenneth Kahn are two examples from the academic world.
And this month, Steelwedge is pleased to announce its partnership with Tom Wallace, an extremely well known author, academic, and “S&OP Guru.” As part of our association with Tom, he has kindly agreed to lead a Web Seminar on January 22nd on the topic of how to make S&OP work. It’s worth a listen.
