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Next Steelwedge Webcast -- Forecasting and Consensus Planning in a Rapidly Changing Environment June 15, 2005, 1pm Eastern, 10am Pacific Principal Speaker - Christine Pfefferle, Director of Global Demand & Order Management, Tellabs Register here for this webcast Sales and Forecasting Management Forum Executive Roundtable , September 7-9, 2005, University of Tennessee Click here for more info Previous Webcasts — Extending SAP for Global, Integrated S&OP , May 25,2005 Stu Reekie, Air Products Click here to view recording New Product Forecasting: Consideration and Issues , April 20,2005 Professor Kenneth Khan, University of Tennessee Click here to view recording Seven Keys to Better Forecasting , March 16,2005 Dr. John T. (Tom) Mentzer, University of Tennessee Click here to view recording |
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| Predicting Future Demand in a Rapidly Changing Environment | ||
| By Christine Pfefferle, Director of Global Demand & Order Management, Tellabs | ||
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Early in 2001, during the telecom industry downturn, Tellabs, a major supplier of data networking and bandwidth management solutions for telecom service providers, launched a global forecasting initiative to more accurately predict future demand for its equipment. The goal was to better align the operations plan with a more accurate picture of customer demand.
..Historically, Tellabs' planners had cobbled together forecast data from multiple systems - a problem compounded by mergers and acquisitions- using unwieldy spreadsheets, manual processes spanning multiple departments, and only a minimal amount of analysis. The resulting forecasts were often inaccurate. In the post-boom economy, flexible and accurate planning would not only be critical to stabilizing current operations, but would play a center-stage role in strategic decision-making across the entire organization.  |
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| Using S&OP to Improve Revenue and Margin |
The Non-Technical Manager's Guide to Successful System Implementation
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| By Anders Gjerde, Senior Manager, Steelwedge Software, Inc. | By Bichalu Narasimmaraj, Senior Sofware Engineer, Steelwedge Software, Inc. | |
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This article focuses on what is at the core of S&OP -- how to balance supply
and demand. In so doing, we will explore what S&OP can learn from other industries..
..Current best practices in S&OP fall short of best practices in other industries in two areas:
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In a post bubble economy companies expect all departments, especially IT, to do more for less. With reduced budgets and manpower, IT has been squeezed between a rock and a hard place…
..This article examines some common pain points of deploying and maintaining an Enterprise system, and provides the non-technical manager with a set of key questions for uncovering potential hick-ups in implementing (or evaluating) a new system.
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