Tag Archives: S&OP

The Growth-Control Paradox – A Webinar

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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

Joined-up Decision Making – What’s Your Perspective?

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StrataBridge Decision-Making Honeycomb

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

Putting the ‘T’ into Leadership

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No, it’s not an example of our bad spelling; it’s a way of overcoming ‘silo thinking’ and looking at a critical leadership quality necessary for establishing joined-up thinking and behaviour. Beyond the Function… Most big, positive changes in business – for example, bringing to life … Read More

In-House, Big Consultants or a Boutique Firm?

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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

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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

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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

S&OP… IBP… WTF?

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S&OP IBP WTF

While we have been intimately involved in the creation, development and use of these types of processes over the last 20 or more years, we think the name game is getting out of hand.