Posts Tagged "sales and operation plan"

In one of my latest articles – “SAP Supply Chain Monitoring Best Practises” I spoke about a Supply Chain Executive’s winning formula. Included in that winning formula is #2 Maintain strategic focus Define Key Initiatives & Metrics. I would highly recommend re-reading that article as this one builds on it. What astonishes me is how many companies do not use standard SAP reporting to measure key metrics. SAP provides up to 300...

“Move a thousand people forward a foot at a time, rather than moving one person forward by a thousand feet” In 2007, when JetBlue left hundreds of passengers stranded on nine planes for over ten hours during an ice storm, they knew they had to make colossal business changes. They made those changes by taking a day to map out their bad weather operations on Post-It notes, identifying one thousand pain points. That’s right… One...

You haven’t concentrated enough on Strategy and then Execution. There are plenty of books written about bringing companies from good to great. Most of these books have all the right buzzwords from all the best experts. What companies need to first focus on is strategy.  Steve jobs had Apple focus on four great products when he returned to Apple in 1997. As for execution, Steve also brought his top 100 people on retreats and focused on...

There are a few ways to create a world class supply chain. When I talk about Supply Chain I’m starting at the Sales and Operations Plan and integrating all key functions to make that plan a success. Oliver Wight I’ve recently completed participating in a project based on the principals of the Oliver Wight system of Sales and Operational Planning excellence.  What I admire about this methodology is that it is a very holistic approach...