UTK Supply Chain Strategy & Management Forum
Nov 4-6, 2008
Contact:
Dr. John P. (Paul) Dittmann
Director of Corporate Partnerships
Demand & Supply Integration Forums
The University of Tennessee
College of Business
310 Stokely Management Ctr.
Knoxville, TN 37996-0530
jdittman@utk.edu

Webcast July 8 - Best Practices Leadership Forum: Five Easy Fixes: How you can quickly improve your S&OP Performance
Dr. David L. Anderson, Managing Director of Supply Chain Ventures
Tuesday, July 8, 10AM Pacific, 12Noon Central, 1PM Eastern

Webcast May 20 - Best Practices Leadership Forum: Steelwedge Solutions Summit - Roadmap to Mastering S&OP and Preview of One-Click Planning
Steelwedge Vice President Business Development Chris Givens
Tuesday, May 20
1pm Eastern, 10am Pacific
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Webcast April 29 - Best Practices Leadership Forum: Emerging Trends in S&OP
Deloitte Consulting Strategy & Operations Director Bob Boehm, Senior Manager John La Bouff and Steelwedge VP Solutions E.J. Tavella
Tuesday, April 29
1pm Eastern, 10am Pacific
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Webcast March 25 - Best Practices Leadership Forum: Managing Demand and Supply Uncertainty in S&OP
Professor Blake Johnson, Consulting Assistant Professor Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University Consulting
Tuesday, March 25
1pm Eastern, 10am Pacific
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Webcast Feb 26 - Best Practices Leadership Forum: Demand and Supply Integration--The Strategic Imperative of S&OP"
Dr. Theodore P. Stank,
Head, Department of Marketing & Transportation UTK
Tuesday, Feb 26
1pm Eastern, 10am Pacific
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Previous Webcast Jan 22 - Best Practices Leadership Forum: S&OP--How to Make it Work
Tom Wallace, Author and Educator
Tuesday January 22, 2008
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Steelwedge Momentum

2008-05-13 - Steelwedge Named
"A Company To Keep An Eye On in 2008"

2008-05-06 - Leading Analyst Firm's Report Calls Steelwedge Software the "Dominant Player" in the Pure Play Sales and Operations Planning Category

New Steelwedge Blog

Your opportunity to Participate in an ongoing dialog regarding S&OP and Collaborative Forecasting.
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The Steelwedge Solutions Summit -
Roadmap to Mastering S&OP: A Preview of One-Click Planning

(Editor’s Note: This is a recap of the Steelwedge Best Practices Leadership Forum Web Seminar, May 20, 2008, featuring a presentation by Steelwedge Vice President Business Development Chris Givens, with SVP Sales & Marketing Chris Whitted and Vice President Solutions E. J. Tavella.)

The Steelwedge Product Vision - Become the Industry Standard for Collaborative Sales Forecasting and Pure Play Sales & Operation Planning for Small to Large Enterprises

• Provide the most differentiated functional solutions to support pre- and post- S&OP processes around demand, supply, financial and operational planning
• Provide a comprehensive S&OP solution specifically targeted to enable the process
• Provide the most cost effective, flexible and easiest to use solution in the market
• Deliver the solution On-Premise and as a self-service SaaS-based (onDemand) solution to support small to large enterprises

The Steelwedge Workbench --

The Five Cornerstones of S&OP

1. Engage Sales and Finance
2. Enable Collaborative Forecast
3. Balance Supply and Demand
4. Measure and Monitor Performance
5. Automate process: “One-Click Planning”

Pure Play S&OP: A New Application Category
“Steelwedge is the dominant player in this category”

• Fresh approach in solving S&OP
• Targeted S&OP application versus extension of neighboring functional area
• Focus on capturing demand insights from disparate functional areas, and
• Building and communicating the consensus operational plan
  Source: AMR Research, 2008

Steelwedge Product Development Process Highlights

• Key Development Drivers
  • Overall Product Strategy
  • Existing Customers
• Prospects & New Customers
• Feature releases every 8-10 weeks
• Major releases every 6 months
• Next Major Release is 5.0 in Q308 featuring “One-Click” Planning
• Phased roll-out of One-Click Planning beginning with release 4.4 at end of Q208
  
  

Steelwedge is Committed to:

1. The Vision of Becoming an Industry Standard for S&OP
   
2. Helping our customers become more profitable and competitive by Mastering S&OP
   
3. Working closely with Customers and Partners to enhance our product