Course Details

Technical Training on Sales and Operations Planning is available here. This training is designed for VP's and Directors for Operation, Finance, Sales/ Marketing, Engineering (Technical Resources), Human Resources, Information Technology (IT), Supply Chain and Procurement As well as the next tier of executionist personnel from each of these respective functional areas.

Learning outcomes:

• What are the S&OP activities for guiding and controlling the business
• What are the roles of the participants
• The significance of planning at the product family level
• How S&OP links with other planning and control processes
• How to attain the desired planning and business outcomes
• What the role of S&OP is in supply and demand balancing
• What are each of the S&OP process steps
• How to identify the planning factors
• How to identify the desired planning & business outcomes
• What is needed to calculate an inventory plan
• How are customer service, inventory and backlog are related
• Learn what the outputs are from the S&OP process steps
• What are the key cost criteria needed in comparing production approaches
• Understand the relationship to resource determination
• How to measure, monitor and improve the S&OP process/results
• What are the eight (8) building blocks for successful S&OP employment