When meetings are focused on decision-making, your whole S&OP process runs more smoothly. They improve business alignment, speed up decisions, and ensure everyone is working toward the same goal. With clear, decision-focused meetings, S&OP becomes a powerful tool to drive performance, improve forecasting, and streamline operations…
Sales & Operations Planning
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) – The Greatest Success Factor
The MD holds the one position in the business with influence over every function and executive. That’s critical because S&OP requires cross-functional alignment. When supply chain leads S&OP, as is often the case, there’s a natural limitation. Supply chain can handle the analysis—demand planning, supply plans, and number crunching—but they can’t enforce changes in other areas like sales, finance, or customer service…
How to Improve Your Supply Chain
Here are the 9 easiest, fastest, and most effective ways to boost your Supply Chain performance. And discover the respective term of each area in these 3 categories: Short, Medium, and Long…
Warehouse Design’s Three Common Mistakes
What are the things that people get wrong most of the time in warehouse design? Here’s what Malcolm Walker, LB Manager Consulting, thoughts about it. Related articles on this topic have appeared throughout our websites, why not check them out? Robobyrne:...
How to Prevent Your 3PL Contract from Harming Logistics Performance
Many companies today are outsourcing to 3PL providers as a way to improve logistics performance. If it's done right, putting logistics in the hands of 3PL partners can certainly make a positive difference. However, it's also not unknown for companies to make...
Why Back Orders are the Bane of Supply Chain
As a supplier in a supply chain, it’s vital to recognise when you have a back order problem and, make no mistake, it is a problem. There are a number of reasons why back orders are the bane of supply chain—the ugly stepchild of good-looking line-fill rates. ...
5 Reasons to Care About Great Inventory Management
A quick look at five reasons why great inventory management has a positive impact on supply chain performance. Inventory; the term for inanimate materials which don’t actually do anything except sit in one place until technology, people, vehicles and...
Sales & Operations Planning – What is it?
In this short video, Steven Thacker and Rob O'Byrne explain what Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) is all about. They answer key questions: What IS Sales and Operations Planning? What is it NOT? Why do it? What are the benefits of S&OP? How do you know if...
Sales & Operational Planning Myths
Myth #1: “We don’t need S&OP in our department; that’s a ‘supply chain thing.’” Reality: Yes, it is a supply chain thing – and a sales & marketing thing – and a manufacturing thing – and a finance thing – and an R&D thing – and, last but not least, it’s a...