Almost every organization has something called S&OP. Much fewer organizations have an S&OP where real decisions are made, instead of a monthly scorecard where everyone continues to run their own plan.
In two days you learn what makes the difference: a tight process, honest figures, and a meeting where the right people cut through the right issues. You design your own S&OP cycle and test it directly in a simulation.
Supply chain managers, demand and supply planners, operations managers and sales leaders who want to introduce S&OP or pull it out of the doldrums. Also highly effective as a joint in-house launch with the entire S&OP team.
Previous experience: experience in a planning, operations or sales role; theoretical S&OP knowledge is not required.
Your trainers implement S&OP in production and trading organizations and are themselves involved in monthly S&OP meetings with clients, under the leadership of Rik Poulus [verifying]. The simulation is built on their real-life case studies.
That’s right. Most participants have a process that is faltering. In the training, you analyze where your cycle is stuck and go home with concrete repairs, from agenda design to behavioral agreements.
Yes. S&OP scales: in a small and medium-sized manufacturing company, it’s a tight five-person monthly meeting; it’s not a bureaucratic circus. You learn to tailor the cycle to your size.
60 minutes of intake + 5 working days of analysis + feedback. Free of charge and without obligation.
