S&OP Training
High Impact
Nexview training courses are a mix of instruction, team building, case studies, and exercises that produce outputs participants can put to use immediately.
Custom Agendas
Most of our training engagements support improvement efforts and we usually work with an executive sponsor and project manager to match the agenda and participants with overall objectives. We often build agendas that involve engagement across management teams, rapid assessments, and initial workshops. Agendas can range from 1 day to a few weeks if we build in an assessment. We can be all on-site, over video conference, or a combination. We serve clients globally.
Cross-Functional Participation
As S&OP is a cross-functional process, so too are the best training seminars. We work with you to determine the participants that best fit your org structure and objectives. Our fixed-fee model avoids clients having to prioritize participants. We also sometimes also build in abbreviated sessions just for the management team to make the best use of their limited time.
Tools & Methodologies
We introduce our tools and methods that we use on longer engagements to give your team a jumpstart on improvement.
Sample Topics & Tools
- S&OP connections to strategy, finance, supply chain processes, and overall planning
- Benchmark your process to best practices
- Roles & responsibilities
- KPIs
- Achieving and measuring results
- Report formats
- Supporting information systems
- Running more effective S&OP meetings
- Change management, project management
- Case studies and sample designs
Demand Planning Training
In-depth or Summary Level
We offer a specialized course in Demand Planning that includes the characteristics described above for S&OP, but focuses on the subject of Demand Planning. The course can be tailored for Demand Planners, those looking to build a Demand Management function, or situations that need to raise the emphasis on Demand Planning in the organization. We often also build agendas with clients that include both Demand Planning and S&OP topics.
Sample Topics
- Demand Planning connections to strategy, finance, supply chain processes, and overall planning
- Components of a world-class process
- Benchmark your process to best practices
- Roles & responsibilities
- Quantitative methods and applications
- KPIs
- Achieving and measuring results
- Report formats
- Supporting information systems
- Industry differences and points of emphasis
- Collaborating with trading partners (CPFR)
- Change management, project management
- Case studies and sample process designs
Integrated Business Planning for Upstream Oil & Gas
We have a specialized consulting practice and training course dedicated to the upstream industry. We believe this to be a unique combination of our S&OP/IBP expertise and experience working with Exploration & Production companies.
Our training content is derived from many projects
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What others have said
“I now know what steps to take.”
“Excellent instructor, I wish to join him again in other workshops.”
“I liked the examples from each lesson.”
“Knowledgeable instructor, very accommodating.”
“Eric gave us a clear and concise presentation to fit our needs.”
“Though the course is designed for manufacturing, it is highly usable for service industries as well.”
“I liked that the concepts from the presentation were reinforced by the case study.”
“I really like the templates shared during the course, they are very useful!”
“We are now pumped up and determined to design and deploy our own S&OP process!”
“Eric has real world experience and knowledge of best practices that can help all levels of the organization.”
Primer included with S&OP courses for each participant
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