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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University of Tennessee --
8th Annual World Class Sales Forecasting Management Conference
May 13-15, 2008
For more info: http://bus.utk.edu/ivc/forecasting/

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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Best Practices Leadership Forum--
S&OP Series with APICS...

Dec 11-- Part 3: Best Practices:
Lessons learned from the field
Dave Garwood,
President, R.D. Garwood, Inc.

Dr. Richard L. Dawe,
Golden Gate University

Michael D. Ford,
Principal, TQM Works Consulting
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Nov 27-- Part 2: S&OP Implementation: A Case Study
Len Couture,
Managing Director, Bluewolf Group
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Oct 30-- Part 1:S&OP Closing the Chasm Between Theory and Practice
Dave Garwood,
President, R.D. Garwood, Inc.
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Previous Webcast July 31 --
Best Practices Leadership Forum -- Implementing a Collaborative Planning Forecasting and
Replenishment Program
Ron Ireland,
Principal, Oliver Wight Consultants
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
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Previous Webcast May 8 --
Best Practices Leadership Forum -- Sales and Operations Planning for Integrated Business Management
George Palmatier,
Principal, Oliver Wight Consultants
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
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Previous Webcast April 3 --
Best Practices Leadership Forum -- How to Extend SAP for effective Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
Mr. Padman Ramankutty,
CEO, Intrigosys, LLC., former CEO and Founder, Bristlecone, Inc.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern
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Steelwedge Momentum:
New Clients and Partners

1/29/2008 -- Mobile Computing Solutions Provider Psion Teklogix Selects Steelwedge Software for Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) Initiative

01/16/2008 -- Steelwedge Software Announces SAP Powered by NetWeaver Certification for its Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) Solution

New Steelwedge Blog

Your opportunity to Participate in an ongoing dialog regarding S&OP and Collaborative Forecasting.
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Demand and Supply Integration (DSI)
Will Improve Corporate Performance

Historically, companies have separated the processes used to plan for and manage demand, and then supply the resources and labor to meet that demand. The problem with this business model is that the companies using it are often unable to consistently ensure that supply meets demand.
Too often, the right hand (demand) and left hand (supply) functions are not synchronized, resulting in a shortage of the products that customers actually want; and a surplus of products that are not wanted.
Companies are trapped in a pattern of reacting to the whims of the marketplace without developing a proactively designed supply capacity.
To create more efficient and effective models, companies must acknowledge that they need to integrate demand and supply systems.

Sales & Operations Planning: How To Make It Work

(Editors Note: This is a recap of the Steelwedge Best Practices Leadership Forum, January 22, featuring presentations by Author and Educator Tom Wallace and Steelwedge Software VP Business Development Chris Givens.)

Tom Wallace: Let’s begin with a quadrant analysis of the four fundamentals of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)--Demand, Supply, Volume and Mix. Demand and Supply on the horizontal axis will be influenced by Volume and Mix on the Vertical axis...

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Chris Givens: There are five cornerstones to making S&OP work with Steelwedge Software. They are: (1) Engaging Sales and Finance; (2) Enabling collaborative forecasting across functions; (3) Balancing Supply and Demand; (4) Measuring and Monitoring Performance; and (5) Automating the process...

Sales & Operation Planning (S&OP): Improve On-Time Delivery, Reduce Inventory, Lower Manufacturing Costs

In a manufacturing company, every additional dollar of revenue gained results in a few percentage points, mere cents, to the bottom line in terms of net profits. However, every dollar saved in terms of cost reductions results in a dollar sent directly to the bottom line. For decades, manufacturing companies have been buying, implementing, and using software systems in an attempt to generate a tangible return on that investment by driving bottom line savings through more cost effective operations. It is obvious that we need them to control and document the business processes and movement of goods, services, and dollars from inventory management to invoicing, but many of those systems have failed to deliver a tangible ROI.