As if companies don’t have enough challenges on a day-to-day basis, there are natural disasters to deal with too. After immediate safety and basic needs are met, company leaders need to take care of their stakeholders’ future livelihoods: their company’s abilities to compete and create opportunities. The hurricane season of 2017 will be remembered for […]
Why Your S&OP Initiative is on the Back Burner
Perhaps the absence of a Sales & Operations Planning process (or a well-functioning one anyway) has caused your team some missteps. Perhaps you are scaling up and need to get your act together internally. Perhaps you’ve lost a key heavy-lifter you depended on. Perhaps corporate is on you and you need to be better prepared […]
Does Your S&OP Process Need Portfolio Review?
While most developed companies have implemented some form of an S&OP process, many have yet to include the Portfolio Review component as part of their regular monthly meeting cadence (e.g. Demand Review, Supply Review, Pre-S&OP, Executive S&OP). As S&OP has evolved to integrate more functions of the company, Portfolio Review has been one of the […]
Benchmark Your S&OP Process – Survey Results, 2017
Results from Nexview’s 3rd annual Key Topics in S&OP are now available for download, here are some highlights. The survey covers: Sponsorship Design elements Challenges people are having Results they’re getting Strategic topics being discussed in S&OP S&OP maturity IT Enablement We had 32 participating companies this year representing industries such as consumer products, life […]
S&OP Readiness: 7 Components for Success and Sustainability
Despite the fact that S&OP is in its fourth decade of recognized existence, many companies have yet to implement a formal version this cross-functional management process. Several see the need though as their businesses grow in complexity, or new executives come in and want to implement what they’ve seen work well in prior lives. When […]
