Sales and Operation Planning (S&OP)

Course details

This workplace focused course encourages learners to use critical thinking to develop new understandings about their working environment. S&OP is a structured process to develop demand scenarios and supply strategies and ensure that these are in balance before being committed to be executive level management.

Practical activities during the course will help learners to use experiential leaning to better understand the principles of S&OP.
S&OP is a powerful tool for businesses to manage the end to end supply chain for excellent customer service as well as superior returns on investment. Businesses are now realizing that coordination with customers and suppliers is the key to better integration of operations to minimise waste.

This AZTech training course will feature: interaction to encourage learners to :

• Think of the end to end supply chain
• Manage risk as part of the process
• Understand the marketing dimension to S&OP
• Use manufacturing planning techniques
• Focus on organization culture

 
What are the Goals?

By the end of this AZTech training course, participants will be able to:

• Understand where S&OP fits into business planning
• Demonstrate the value of balancing supply and demand
• Realise the importance of executive level commitment
• Use critical thinking to focus improvement efforts
• Diagnose their orgaizations position in the maturity model of S&OP

Updated on 01 October, 2018