Executive S&OP:
Top Management’s Handle on the Business
 September 9, 2008

Please join us as Robert A. Stahl presents a workshop on Executive S&OP. S&OP has been around for quite a while and remains one of the most prolific supply chain topics today. This is because S&OP, properly done, aligns energy at the leadership level. Many companies are finding that when this is done, the power becomes boundless.

Confusion sometimes exists, however, because the term S&OP is used to describe a whole range of topics dealing with balancing demand and supply – at both the volume and mix levels. The ‘executive portion’ sometimes gets lost and misunderstood.

This talk will focus on the understanding and learning how to effectively implement the executive portion of S&OP, called Executive S&OP.

Executive S&OP is a set of processes to make decisions involving the general manager (president) of the business and his or her staff. Its mission is to balance demand and supply at the aggregate or volume level, and to align operational planning with financial planning so to run the business with one set of numbers. Additionally it is a forum for controlled discussion about the setting of supply chain policy and strategy.

In today's rapidly shifting global economy, if this process is not done well, a management team will constantly find itself behind the eight ball, with little time to worry about anything else . . . clearly a competitive disadvantage at best.

Come learn:
1. What is authentic Executive S&OP
2. What makes it work
3. What makes it fail
4. How to implement effectively at low risk & low cost