For Steelwedge clients the IBP journey begins with Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and matures into the power of automated collaboration and analytics.
In the Steelwedge Webinar Series learn from industry experts like Stanford University Professor Blake Johnson Ph.D, Supply Chain Shaman Lora Cecere, Author/Educator Tom Wallace and Former Aberdeen Group Principal Supply Chain Analyst, now Steelwedge VP of Product Management, Nari Viswanathan.
Companies want to be more agile in driving growth regardless of volatililty in the global business environment. But there is no clear, consistent industry standard definition of business agility. To better understand what this means and how organizations like yours are using S&OP to drive supply chain agility, Lora Cecere, Founder of Supply Chain Insights and former Supply Chain Analyst and Partner with Altimeter Group, conducted a survey of business professionals in April about the importance of agility in business planning . On May 15th, Lora will be sharing her analysis of this research during her featured webinar.
View recorded webinar to learn how others are prioritizing and enabling agility in their organizations. Get tips from Lora and Steelwedge’s VP of Product Marketing, Nari Viswanathan on how you can use S&OP to drive better resilience in your operation.
May 15, 2012 @ 10AM PDT
Most businesses are organization-driven: built to move supply to customers. Yet in today’s highly volatile global business environment, successful businesses are realigning to become much more agile to adjust to change, with a focus on becoming demand-driven: starting with the customer. This transformational sea change in Supply Chain strategy needs to be driven top down. It must be collaborative. It must have an end-to-end S&OP process. And, it should have process-enabling planning technology.
Roddy Martin, SVP Global Supply Chain & Manufacturing Transformation at Competitive Capabilities International and former Supply Chain leader and distinguished analyst at AMR, will lead this interactive session with examples from some of the best demand-driven organizations such as Proctor & Gamble. He’ll also offer insights for businesses at any stage of demand-driven transformation, including:
Nari Viswanathan, VP of Product Marketing and Management at Steelwedge, a former Supply Chain analyst at Aberdeen Group, will add perspective on S&OP solutions to jump start the journey to end-to-end demand driven process.
April 11, 2012 @ 10AM PDT
The converging forces of internal complexity and external market volatility are driving business leaders from across the enterprise to look for new, more agile solutions to inform business decisions. In fact, 90% of attendees at Steelwedge's first Agility Series webinar in February said change and uncertainty are impacting their ability to do their jobs.
Tom Wallace has found fascinating examples of nimble businesses like Dow, Applied Materials, Procter & Gamble and Staples using S&OP as the engine for collaboration and decision making for applications far beyond its original scope in supply/demand balancing such as:
Nari Viswanathan, VP of Product Marketing and Management at Steelwedge, a former Supply Chain analyst at Aberdeen Group, will add perspective on S&OP solutions to jump start the journey to end-to-end demand driven process.
March 13, 2012 @ 10AM PDT
On February 7, Steelwedge kicks off its 2012 Agility series of live webcasts with Chris Turner, co-founder of strategy, innovation and operations consulting firm StrataBridge and Ed Lewis, VP of Product Planning at Steelwedge. This session, The S&OP Paradox, will explore where S&OP sits at the cross hairs of planning to plan and planning to change. It will address how to optimize your company's approach to drive growth, regardless if you are new to S&OP, or you are evolving your existing strategy and process.
Recorded February 7, 2012
View recorded webinar to hear thought leader and leading industry analyst Lora Cecere talk about the results from her latest S&OP research report titled "Solving the S&OP Puzzle".
The focus of this thought-provoking webinar will be on highlighting the maturity phases that companies go through with respect to S&OP and the benefits that they gain along the way. Lora has clearly defined five maturity phases to help illustrate this point.
Some of the topics that will be covered are:
Recorded Tuesday, December 13, 2011
A Partner with Altimeter Group and the author of enterprise software blog "Supply Chain Shaman".
The blog focuses on the use of enterprise applications to drive supply chain excellence.
If you're wondering about the future of Sales & Operations Planning, it's here already.
Today we see companies using Sales & Operations Planning for purposes far beyond its original missions of balancing demand and supply and integrating financial and operational planning.
View recorded webinar to learn why leading edge companies have made improving their Sales & Operations competency a key focus area, and what they are doing to advance their process maturity.
Recorded Wednesday, November 30, 2011
S&OP Author and Educator
The Steelwedge cloud-based IBP platform powers better business agility with real-time "what if" scenario planning and modeling, business analytics and reporting. Companies at all stages of Sales & Operations Planning rely on Steelwedge technology and deep domain expertise to support their journey to link business strategy and operations.
End Spreadsheet Confusion. While SCM, ERP and CRM systems have improved efficiencies, these systems were not designed to work together. In fact, they contribute to a sea of siloed big data, that large organizations are increasingly challenged to cut through. So, most companies default to a collection of disparate spreadsheets for executive-level planning. Yet, spreadsheets lack the data management, analytics and process automation needed to reconcile and align functional plans to create one view and drive effective executive decision-making.
Collaborative Planning Gets Results. C-level executives depend on Steelwedge for sales forecasting and planning, consensus forecasting, balancing demand and supply planning, "what-if" modeling, rough cut scenario planning, connecting S&OP with financial planning and measuring performance against revenue and customer service targets. Integrated Business Planning pays: most customers save $5-$10 million per $1 billion in revenues.
Steelwedge Solutions, Services and Best Practices Drive Time to Value. Based on recognized industry S&OP best practices, the Steelwedge IBP Platform is backed by Executive S&OP, S&OP Sales, S&OP Operations and S&OP Collaboration. Steelwedge Services include an Integrated Business Planning Assessment, Strategic Consulting, Business Planning Improvement, Steelwedge University, Technology Implementation and Outsourced Planning Services.
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