Sales & Operations Planning: The Self-Audit Workbook

Three separate checklists. Executive S&OP - Sales Forecasting - Master Scheduling How effective are your processes for balancing demand and supply? This workbook will help you get the answers and start on a path for improvement. The book provides ample room to keep running notes, a place to assign responsibilities and record due dates for those assignments. A companion Excel file for all of checklists is available for download. It ready to project on a screen and is perfect for a groups session. It does the scoring and calculation for you. Also you can customize the questions for your specific situation. Today's world is one of increasing demand volatility, greater complexity and rapid rates of change. These factors call for highly effective, robust processes to manage supply chains that can extend to half a world away. Sales & Operations Planning: The Self-Audit Workbook can enable you to: * Assess your current processes for balancing demand and supply across your entire supply chain. * Gain consensus on the most important areas for improvement, and generate enthusiasm and energy for those improvements. * Manage the improvement tasks effectively - by showing assignments and target completion dates, thereby facilitating follow-up. The checklist items are based on key principles, which are fundamental to the issues at hand. These principles are included in individual lists - one each for Executive S&OP, Forecasting, and Master Scheduling. Also included is an important appendix - one that focuses on raising and resolving conflict.