| Conferences & Events |
Sales Forecasting Management Forum--Executive Roundtable University of
Tennessee (UTK) Executive Director Paul Dittman, Member Companies and
Marketing & Logistics Department Professors
Tom Mentzer, Mark Moon,
Ken Kahn September 5-7, 2007 Knoxville Marriott
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Previous Webcast 5/8 --
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
View Recorded Webcast
Previous Webcast 4/3 --
Best Practices Leadership Forum
-- How to Extend SAP for effective Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern
Mr. Padman Ramankutty, CEO, Intrigosys, LLC.,
former CEO and Founder, Bristlecone, Inc.
View Recorded Webcast
Previous Webcast 2/27 --
Best Practices Leadership Forum
--S&OP Best Practices:
A Case Study
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
1pm Eastern, 12noon Central,
10am Pacific
Dr. Chris Gopal, Partner,
Deloitte Consulting and former VP Operations Strategy, Dell, Inc.
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Steelwedge Momentum:
Three New S&OP Clients
Spansion, the largest company
exclusively focused on Flash
memory solutions.
EDS, a leading global technology
services company delivering
business solutions to its clients.
Honeywell International Inc.
a diversified, technology
and manufacturing company,
serving customers worldwide.
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Industry Blogs
Here are the Industry Blogs that
we watch, and you might want to:
www.crmblog.org
www.supplychainer.com
www.andyonenterprisesoftware.com
www.siliconvalleywatcher.com
blogs.ittoolbox.com/crm
blogs.ittoolbox.com/supplychain
www.vics.org/blog
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Sales and Operations Planning for Integrated Business Management
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Recap of the Steelwedge Best Practices Leadership Forum Webcast,
May 8, 2007, featuring George Palmatier,
Principal at Oliver Wight Consulting
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Beginning with Production Planning back in the 70’s and 80’s we have seen a maturation and evolution of S&OP into integrated business management with supply chain collaboration at the present time. S&OP is about cross-functional integration across the business entity including—Demand (Marketing and Sales), Supply (Manufacturing, Materials, Logistics, Purchasing and Supply Chain), New Products (Research, Development and Engineering), Finance (Planning and Accounting) and Support (HR, Quality Assurance, Customer Service)
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Extending SAP for Sales and Operations Planning
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| Recap of the Steelwedge Best Practices Leadership Forum Webcast,
April 3, 2007, with Padman Ramankutty, CEO,
Intrigo Systems, LLC. |
Sales and Operations Planning is needed now more than ever because the 21st Century marketplace is moving at the speed of light. Changing markets, new technology, contract manufacturing, outsourcing, off-shoring and other factors require a faster, more accurate formal process for corporate decision-making to balance demand and supply, understand product volume and mix, establish a forward-looking monthly cadence that links strategic planning to tactical detail.
The successful enterprise with an effective S&OP process will have better customer service, lower inventories, shorter fulfillment times, stable manufacturing, clear visibility and clear communications. It will be able to out-maneuver it’s competition in distributed manufacturing and global product launches.
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Steelwedge VP Business Development Chris Givens Talks About Collaborative Sales & Operations Planning
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- PEP: S&OP has been around for 25 years,
but it seems to be a hot topic. Why?
CG: While the vision and value proposition for S&OP is not new, and has always been compelling, it has taken awhile for enabling technology to catch up with the vision. Collaboration, workflow and performance management solutions combined with a good ERP backbone, and optimization engines, have provided the fundamental building blocks for helping to make S&OP a feasible reality.
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