The Value of Alignment: Sales, Operations & Finance
Discover the critical role SIOP alignment plays in harmonizing sales, operations, and finance for improved outcomes.
Collaboration & Judgment Can Achieve Wonders
Supply chain success can be achieved through effective collaboration and strategic judgment. These insights lead to transformative results.
SIOP: How Far Should You Look into the Future?
SIOP guides strategic forecasting to determine the optimal horizon for planning and future-proofing your supply chain operations.
SIOP is Not a Supply Chain Project
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 [...]
SIOP Success is a Straight Line to People
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. [...]
Involve Your Supply Chain for SIOP Success
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 [...]
SIOP beyond Borders
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. [...]
SIOP as a Win-Win-Win-Win
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 for SIOP Success
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 [...]