Thought Leadership
A deep well of knowledge, and extensive experience, our consultancy is uniquely positioned to offer strategic insights and innovative solutions. Our wisdom, honed through years of industry expertise, ensures that our recommendations are not only practical but also visionary
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Lessons learned from a
lifetime of planning
Alignment is the most common root challenge
Most business leaders believe education about S&OP processes is their core challenge. However, we have seen that the challenge is beyond education. Driving deep alignment across teams and establishing the most valuable, viable, and supported path forward is the root challenge business leaders face
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Collaboration must be intentional
Collaboration is not just a soft skill. It requires engineering underwritten by data harmonization, information flow, and decision enablement, to ensure that the right, relevant and strategic conversations are occurring
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Digital processes are key to lasting success
It is important to start by creating a streamlined, simple, and standard process, but companies who stop there often fail. Supporting the process with technology to digitize the content anchors the process and unleashes the full potential for effective collaboration and the ability to scale
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Best practice without customization often fails
Implementation of textbook S&OP best practices belong in academia and often fail if the organization's ways of working aren't considered. Leveraging an organization's existing processes and adapting S&OP best practices to fit lead to successful process implementations
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Beware of creating unintentional silos
Ownership of S&OP responsibilities are best shared and distributed across functions, being integrated into existing roles. Companies who try to segment resources into an "S&OP department" miss the value of learning to run the business through cross-functional collaboration
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Processes don’t need to be linear to be successful
Traditional S&OP processes are developed and implemented in a linear, waterfall fashion. However, working in a modularized approach and deploying solutions to the most relevant, targeted areas is key to driving the biggest impact and establishing a successful process at most organizations
