Assuming you have made some big choices and so are clear on your organisation’s strategic direction – how are you going to bring your strategy to life
Tag Archives: Sales & Operations Planning
In-House, Big Consultants or a Boutique Firm?
At the inaugural IBF London meet-up on Tuesday (www.ibf.org) to hear an interesting presentation from the Business Integration Manager at McCormick (UK) Ltd. on the efforts they have been making to improve demand planning and S&OP within their business. One of the topics which came … Read More →
The Impossible Horizon Question
We’re often asked how long the horizon should be for Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)/ Integrated Business Planning (IBP). 12 months, 18 months rolling, 2 year ends, 24 months, or something else. As usual it depends! If your over-riding interest is in hitting the year-end … Read More →
Leading S&OP – Beware the Dark Side
If you are reading this because you found StrataBridge via a Google search, you are quite possibly a supply chain professional thinking about how best to develop Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) or Integrated Business Planning (IBP) within your organisation. You may well be thinking … Read More →
The Growth-Control Paradox – A Webinar
VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) is the new normal in global business. After decades of building finely wrought supply chains, it took just a few days of “Black Swan” events in the past year to break them apart. In fact, 2011 was a record-breaking … Read More →