Sales&Operations Planning Innovation
09/09/2010-10/09/2010
Boston, MA
The path towards integrated Sales and Operations Planning has only just begun… Learn how your peers are trying to change people, improve processes and address systems to ensure that demand, supply and resources are synchronized to achieve increased performance and greater results. Hear and discuss the key accomplishments to date and the business challenges that still lay ahead.
Challenge&Opportunity
Effective planning is central to business success. In the modern business environment technological developments and the advances of globalization have created unparalleled opportunities for businesses to expand their markets. But new opportunity has opened the door to new challenges.
As competition intensifies, businesses have never been under as much pressure to consistently provide the products their customers want, when and where they want them. Shifting customer expectations and the increasingly global nature of S&OP and partnerships place formidable demands on planning, as the number of relevant variables balloons and the predictability of data becomes increasingly uncertain.
This summit will focus on the solutions offered by innovative S&OP strategy, demand planning and business forecasting. The Summit will comprise of learning objectives, illustrated intermittently with a number of illustrative case studies:
•How to create S&OP excellence with optimal communication, collaboration and co-ordination
•Aligning business objectives! Successful approaches to bringing the different department goals together for a tighter and more unified forecast between finance, marketing and supply chain
•Processes to ensure effective communication between forecasting&planning divisions and the supply chain so that in the instance of high risk or volatile products, operations are aware and can manage the upper and lower ranges of a product efficiently
•Best practice of sharing information and increasing the planners awareness of what is going on in other parts of the organisation
•How to create an integrated demand planning process that can be updated and communicated throughout the business to supply chain, finance, product management
•Consensus forecasting&active forecast reconciliation – how is this tied into other forecasts?
and much more………..
Confirmed Speakers Include:
•Justin Honaman, Director, Customer Intelligence, Coca-Cola
•Sean McNamara, Vice President, Operations, Nikon Precision inc.
•Crystal Henkel-Kimmes, Business Partner Operations, Yahoo!
•Kris Lutz, Director, Sales&Operations Planning, Staples
•Richard Sherman, Director, Supply Chain Council
•Carl Offhaus, Director, SC&Consumer Services, Stanley-Black&Decker
•CJ Welhage, Vice President, Supply Chain Systems, Sony
•Deepak Yadav, Sr. Director, Business Planning, Sharp
•Kevin Watt, Project Planner: S&OP Project Manager, Pfizer
•Tom Bacon, S&OP Director, Frontier Airlines
•Tom Wallace, Author & Teacher, TF Wallace & Company
•Shekar Natarajan, Director, Supply Chain
•Jane Barrett, Vice President, Industry Value Chain Strategies, Gartner
•Bob Lockamy, Demand & Operations Planning Director, IMERYS
•Brad McCollum, Sales & Operations Planning Director, Jarden Consumables
•Kevin Chynoweth, VP, Supply Chain Management, Fairchild Semiconductor
•Kathy Knopoff, Sr. Director Business Operations, RIM
•Jeff Harrison, Finance Director, Tyco Electronics
•Eric Beylier, VP, Global Supply chain & Procurement, TETRA Technologies
•Craig Faulkner, Sales & Operations Planning Associate, W L Gore & Associates
•Lora Cecere, Partner, Altimeter
•Eric Eger, Director, Demand Planning, SanDisk
For more information:
http://www.theiegroup.com/SOP/Overview.html
info@theiegroup.com
+13109336017
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