About 10 years ago I was working as Accenture consultant in Europe on an implementation of common data and processes for Sara Lee. This project was implementing ERP and APS systems across 15 operations companies in 10 countries and must have roughly cost a 100 million Euro. Through a vendor selection model it was decided to use SAP R/3 and the then little mature APO … Continue reading Where is the S&OP visionary?
My article ‘The four phases of IBP’ , is published in the AFP Exchange, an American financial magazine. If you followed my blog, you’ve already read it and can actually check the editorial mistakes. I saw a couple 🙂 Check it out here: 4 of a kind – The four phases of IBP There is an other article to come soon I hope. Thanks for following me and … Continue reading My published IBP article
There is a lot of garbage on any topic on the internet, so we can’t be surprised if we find some S&OP garbage floating around. Sometimes though, it can come from somewhere you wouldn’t expect. In this case it came from a Professor Operations Planning & Control on a pretty respectable site, which I follow regularly. I write this because I care about the topic. … Continue reading Yet another S&OP expert
This blog has been published recently as an article in the AFP Exchange. Check it out here: 4 of a kind – The four phases of IBP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is often seen as a natural progression from Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), which came to life in the 80’s to align sales and operations. As S&OP found its origin in the supply chain, IBP … Continue reading The four phases of IBP
The slogan for the March 2012 IE group summit in Berlin is ‘IBP innovation’. As innovation is defined by ‘the act of introducing something new’ it is good to see that the IE group wants to start thinking beyond the current definition of IBP. Integrated Business Planning is often seen as a natural progression from S&OP, which came to life in the 80’s to align … Continue reading Integrated Business Planning innovation I
This is the last in a series of four articles on leading an effective S&OP/IBP culture. The first article was on effective S&OP/IBP behaviour. The second article on leading S&OP/IBP change. The third article discussed on how to lead sustainable S&OP/IBP and introduced the ‘S&OP leadership quadrant’. This fourth article is about leading S&OP/IBP across geographies. Leading S&OP/IBP across geographies Once a company starts crossing the borders other complexity … Continue reading Leading S&OP/IBP across geographies
Many articles and whitepapers have been written on how to overcome the process and technology aspects of S&OP. Not many S&OP whitepapers have been written on how to include and overcome behavioural and cultural aspects of S&OP. I will write four articles that will provide you with some thoughts and guidance to address behavioural and leadership challenges when implementing and sustaining effective S&OP. In my … Continue reading Leading an effective S&OP culture
We’re are still on our quest to crack the code of S&OP before the IE group S&OP summit ‘Cracking The Code of S&OP’ next week in Boston. Like symbologist Robert Langdon in the ‘Da Vinci Code’ we have to solve complex puzzles, cryptic messages and overcome hurdles and change to unlock the code to one of the most important business processes of our time: S&OP! … Continue reading Cracking the code of S&OP II
Globalization is pushing companies to plan and operate more and more across the borders of their country of origin. This will have an impact global S&OP/IBP processes as well. In my previous blog (the fifth out of this serie from six) on this topic https://supplychaintrends.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/the-impact-of-company-culture-on-ibp-part-iv-geography-2/ I used Geert Hofstede’s ground breaking work on cultures to explore what could be preferred cultural drivers to implement and … Continue reading The impact of company culture on IBP part VI: Geography 3
Most people would agree that communication is an essential part of running effective S&OP/IBP processes. Or maybe we should say that communication is part of running an effective business! According to the results of the S&OP pulse check 2011, 144 participants from 30 countries indicated in two ways the importance of communication: 1. They voted as key reason to implement S&OP: ‘Improving cross functional communication’ … Continue reading S&OP and communication; just listen!
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