Sales and Operations Planning The Executive Guide

Sales and Operations Planning The Executive Guide
Author: Thomas F Wallace
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2014-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780997887792

Sales & Operations Planning has emaerged as an essential set of management tools in this age of global operations, supply chains that extend half a world away, and increasingly demanding customers. Its primary component - Executive S&OP - has rightfully been called "top management's handle on business." The mission of this book is to tell the busy executive what he or she needs to know about Executive S&OP. Written in clear, understandable language, this book can easily be read in the course of an evening or two - or on a plane ride from Chicago to L.A.

Enterprise Sales and Operations Planning

Enterprise Sales and Operations Planning
Author: George E. Palmatier
Publisher: J. Ross Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2002-10-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781932159004

An effective sales and operations planning process is essential to successfully implementing any integrated management system, such as enterprise resources planning or supply chain management. Enterprise Sales and Operations Planning: Synchronizing Demand, Supply and Resources for Peak Performance illustrates the effective real world implementation of this powerful process.

Sales and Operations Planning

Sales and Operations Planning
Author: Thomas F. Wallace
Publisher:
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2008-03
Genre: Sales
ISBN: 9780997887723

Implementing S&OP now, or getting ready to? This book will make your implementation more sure-footed, less risky, and more successful. Bob & Tom cover all aspects of successful implementation, from composition of the Executive Team to the nitty-gritty of the S&OP spreadsheet design. Already operating S&OP? Learn how to improve the process and make it more effective and beneficial. The 3rd Edition explains S&OP and How It Works, How To Implement It, with Low Cost, Low Risk, Quickly, with High Impact. How to Make It Better . . . and Better We've added new or enhanced material on: * Implementation Methodology * The "People" Part Implementation * Change Management * New Product Introduction * Highly Variable Supply * Managing Risk * Graphical Displays (in color) * Software Selection Criteria * Fixing a Broken S&OP Process * Examples from Real World Companies "Recommended reading for the CEO, as well as marketing, engineering and operations executives . . .

The Oliver Wight Class A Checklist for Business Excellence

The Oliver Wight Class A Checklist for Business Excellence
Author: Oliver Wight International, Inc.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2010-12-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118040597

The Oliver Wight Class A Checklist for Business Excellence The leading business improvement specialists who educate, coach and mentor people to lead and sustain change on the journey to business excellence and outstanding business performance * Managing the Strategic Planning Process * Managing and Leading People * Driving Business Improvement * Integrated Business Management * Managing Products and Services * Managing Demand * Managing the Supply Chain * Managing Internal Supply * Managing External Sourcing

Integrated Tactical Planning

Integrated Tactical Planning
Author: Rod Hozack
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2021-02-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119784751

The experts at Oliver Wight provide business leaders with invaluable information for integrating the tactical planning process Integrated Tactical Planning (ITP) is an essential process for regularly re-aligning product, demand, and supply plans in the short term, thereby giving the Executive team the confidence that operational activities are being well managed, unless they formally hear otherwise. This cross-functional re-planning process is vital to responding to change, increasing competitiveness, and reducing costs. Integrated Tactical Planning: Respond to Change, Increase Competitiveness and Reduce Costs helps senior executives devote more time to strategy and other value-added activities by deploying ITP practices throughout their organization. Written by the leadership team at Oliver Wight, one of the world’s most respected firms for effectively integrating business processes and improving business outcomes, this authoritative resource offers a contemporary view of the processes, behavior change methods, and new technology for implementing ITP processes. Throughout the text, the authors share business-proven concepts, define fundamental terms, and provide real-life examples of how Integrated Tactical Planning has been applied in various industries and businesses. Clear and accurate chapters cover essential topics including strategy alignment, product and demand plan execution, supply scheduling, performance improvement, and more. Presenting the information necessary to get an organization started on its Integrated Tactical Planning journey, this book: Describes how to manage and align product portfolio changes and new products within a single management process Explains the mechanisms and behavioral requirements for an organization to successfully execute Integrated Tactical Planning Offers methods for improving reaction time and cost-effectively responding to changes in Demand and Supply Reviews different design and deployment strategies, structures and roles, and the key ITP elements such as process definition and sustainability Features a comprehensive case study that details the challenges and results experienced by an Oliver Wight client company that implemented Integrated Tactical Planning Integrated Tactical Planning: Respond to Change, Increase Competitiveness and Reduce Costs is a must-have book for senior executives, leaders, managers, and planners at organizations of any size across all industries.

Customer-Anchored Supply Chains

Customer-Anchored Supply Chains
Author: Gary Flaharty
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2015-06-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1480818771

Customer-Anchored Supply Chains introduces oilfield service executives to the twin concepts of customer-anchored supply chains and customer-applications as important concepts for setting supply-chain strategy to build sustainable competitive advantage. Written for the executive responsible for leading the supply chain organization, Customer-Anchored Supply Chains presents leading practices for supply chain, proven in many other industries, in straightforward terms, showing the applicability to the oilfield service industry. The Customer-Anchored Supply Chain: Takes ownership for the broad supply chain from its suppliers suppliers to its customers customers. Segments its business by customer-application to focus its efforts on providing the products and services its customers value as captured in critical success factors. Sets its strategic goals to simultaneously achieve supply-chain imperatives (HS&E and quality), shareholder-driven goals, and customer-anchoring goals. Drives customer requirements deep into the sales and operations planning, manufacturing, and procurement processes. Implements supply-chain initiatives to tighten the links in the supply chain value stream to deliver the products and services the customer wants in short lead times, at the lowest cost and with less inventory. Delivers on the promise of building sustainable competitive advantage.

High Growth Handbook

High Growth Handbook
Author: Elad Gil
Publisher: Stripe Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1953953379

High Growth Handbook is the playbook for growing your startup into a global brand. Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth tech companies including Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they’ve grown from small companies into global enterprises. Across all of these breakout companies, Gil has identified a set of common patterns and created an accessible playbook for scaling high-growth startups, which he has now codified in High Growth Handbook. In this definitive guide, Gil covers key topics, including: · The role of the CEO · Managing a board · Recruiting and overseeing an executive team · Mergers and acquisitions · Initial public offerings · Late-stage funding. Informed by interviews with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), and Aaron Levie (Box), High Growth Handbook presents crystal-clear guidance for navigating the most complex challenges that confront leaders and operators in high-growth startups.