August 11, 2017 Earlier this week, I spoke to APICS Ventura County on the topic of SIOP (Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning). It was a great conversation because it was really interactive with probing questions on not just the theory and concepts but how to "make it work" - [...]
Setting strategy or designing a sales, inventory and operations planning (SIOP) process requires forecasting. How far into the future do you look and why? Whether setting strategy or designing a SIOP (sales, inventory and operations planning) process, one of the most important questions to consider is how far into [...]
The full benefits of SIOP (Sales Inventory Operations Planning), also known as S&OP, blossom when it's treated like an organization-wide strategic initiative instead of a narrower supply chain project. Although the supply chain and operations resources typically coordinate the SIOP process as their skills align best with the majority [...]
The technical aspects of SIOP, also known as S&OP, still have to filter through people. Success happens when everyone in an organization is operating from a single integrated plan. As with everything in business success, SIOP (sales, inventory and operations planning) success is a straight line back to people. [...]
For greater success with your SIOP process reach out to your extended supply chain for collaborative ordering, product development opportunities, and logistics improvements. The best SIOP (Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning) processes that deliver significant returns on investment involve the extended supply chain. Since SIOP is about how to [...]
In today’s interconnected business environment amplify SIOP’s reach and potential to include all supply chain partners, even globally. SIOP (Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning) is one method to align demand with supply while also aligning the various functions within an organization to deliver strategic objectives and maximize business value. [...]
LMA Consulting Group offers clients an opportunity to align demand with supply to drive exponential results through our 4Excel proprietary process. Our favorite end-to-end supply chain project supported a SIOP (sales, inventory and operations planning) project for growth. Although we enjoy SIOP projects as they are one of the [...]
4 EXCEL is a LMA Consulting Group proprietary process to help businesses engage executives and employees to execute integrated plans that improve overall performance. Our most successful clients are constantly thinking about where they are headed. They think about why they are going there - how does it fit [...]
November 18, 2015 I've been partnering with clients to design and implement SIOP (sales, inventory and operations planning) programs the last several years as I've found them to be a GREAT way to achieve several results simultaneously: 1) Support growth 2) Improved service levels/ quicker turnaround of deliveries (shorter [...]
