Sales & Operations Planning – How do you rate?
Article from IT Magazine on S&OP and Lean
Without doubt two of the hottest business practices around at the moment are:
- “Class A” Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and
- Lean Manufacturing
A simple “yahoo” search reveals the enormous number of companies implementing S&OP and Lean, and the benefits they are actually obtaining. There is even an S&OP specific “self-assessment” checklist for companies to do their own evaluation. Let’s discuss Lean in a future article and focus on S&OP for this article. (more…)