Successful planning doesn't just happen!

Integrate insights from all the functional planning disciplines of your business to produce superior performance results through a single, fully integrated operating plan

"Successful performance isn't the product of a single department. Sales, Product Management, Manufacturing and, Finance all need to be on the same page if your company is to achieve superior business performance and maximum profitability. Getting and maintaining functional plan alignment is the key to success."

What does it take to make it happen?

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) is now a complete, Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process where the executive team continually achieves focus and alignment across all the critical functions of the organization. IBP is a communications and decision-making based process that sets the direction, priorities and boundaries for the rest of the organization. Through the IBP process, the executive leadership team and supporting staff members regularly and routinely review customer and marketplace demand and key "constrained" supply resources and regularly "re-plan" the business across an 18 to 24 month rolling planning horizon; including the deployment of their strategic plans by continually reviewing new market directions, new products and projects and integrating them with the demand, supply and financial management of the business enterprise.

Who should attend? General Managers and their leadership team members, financial managers, demand managers, sales forecasters, marketing and sales managers, product managers, customer service managers and supply chain managers.