Oliver Wight

Sales and operations planning has been the gold standard for procurement teams, but a more comprehensive approach called integrated business planning may be the future, says Ben Sellers at Oliver Wight.

Dig deep enough, and it will become evident that inventory is a symptom of other business issues, in reality, ownership of inventory should reside with the entity that owns the “root cause” of inventory.

Change is hard for any organization, but Princess Auto, a nearly 90-year-old Canadian hard goods retailer, changed its collective thinking and brought a new level of efficiency to its inventory planning and how product flows to its customers.

Who owns inventory? stop the blame game, it’s a common question, but the wrong question to ask, this white paper explains why and what you should be asking.

This white paper details Robert Hirschey’s experience in working with companies to develop education as a strategic advantage, Hirschey has worked as an executive at both the operating and strategic levels.

This white paper shows how to evaluate and communicate the value of improving the credibility of the demand plan, several templates are included to help in quantifying and documenting the return on investment.

Learn how to drive return-on-investment with trustworthy demand management - the need to improve demand plan performance is not just something to whine about, it becomes a business imperative.

This is about the five question concept, a simple way of structuring information and discussions for each of the review steps within the sales and operation process, and an integrated business planning process.

In this white paper, we discuss a series of five questions - simple 'must-haves', which can be applied to any organization and which can be used in each of the five IBP review meetings to ensure they address the key issues facing the business in a standardized way, validate the plans and make required decisions.

Learn the key to the effective execution of Sales and Operations Planning S&OP and Integrated Tactical Planning plans.

This white paper, Effective Execution of S&OP/IBP Plans through Integrated Tactical Planning, gives you an in-depth look at this planning process, how to recognize the symptoms of non-integrated processes and to remedy them.

Establishing how demand execution is fully integrated with demand planning and integrated business planning will go a long way in reducing chaos.

With the impacts of the Coronavirus continuing to advance, how can we be prepared for events like these?

Learn how to make chronic inventory problems a thing of the past.

This white paper is an entertaining, quick read about Paul McGuire’s experiences in turning around supply planning processes.