Sales & Operations Planning Summit

Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Las Vegas
Palms Place Hotel
info@theiegroup.com
+13109336017

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...........
http://www.theiegroup.com/SOP/Overview.html