Key Features: -Covers all aspects of S&OP, such as proper roles, agendas, schedules, cost planning, forecasting, capacity planning, and measurements -Describes in an easy-to-read detailed format how senior executives must be engaged for this process to return the maximum benefits of operational excellence, improved profits and shareholder value -Explains how S&OP supports Lean Manufacturing, connects with ERP, and improves end-to-end supply chain performance -Teaches how to balance the supply and demand elements of overall sales rates with rates of production, aggregate inventories, and order backlogs -Discusses how S&OP can help improve supplier relations, shorten customer lead-times, lower inventories, stabilize production rates, and improve service to end-users -Features audit criteria for confirmation of a high-performance S&OP process

An effective sales and operations planning process is essential to successfully implementing any integrated management system, such as enterprise resources planning or supply chain management. Enterprise Sales and Operations Planning: Synchronizing Demand, Supply and Resources for Peak Performance illustrates the effective real world implementation of this powerful process.

The sales and operations planning (S&OP) process is a major baseline for high-performance companies because, when done correctly, it keeps supply and demand in balance at the volume and detailed mix level, integrates and builds teamwork between general management, sales, operations, finance and product development, and links the company's strategic and business plans to its detailed processes and tools used to run the business on an hourly basis. However, due to a lack of state-of-the-art guidance, most firms still aren't achieving the substantial end-to-end supply chain, profit and shareholder value improvements that this process can help deliver. This comprehensive guide delineates how to accomplish successful top management planning using a step-by-step approach and explains how to implement and execute robust S&OP process excellence. It details the ease with which S&OP can be implemented and how it can be done correctly with little capital while still returning many times the investment. While achieving excellence takes practice, you can expect to begin seeing results almost immediately. Key Features Covers all aspects of S&OP, such as proper roles, agendas, schedules, cost planning, forecasting, capacity planning, and measurements Describes in an easy-to-read detailed format how senior executives must be engaged for this process to return the maximum benefits of operational excellence, improved profits and shareholder value Explains how S&OP supports Lean Manufacturing, connects with ERP, and improves end-to-end supply chain performance Teaches how to balance the supply and demand elements of overall sales rates with rates of production, aggregate inventories, and order backlogs Discusses how S&OP can help improve supplier relations, shorten customer lead-times, lower inventories, stabilize production rates, and improve service to end-users Features audit criteria for confirmation of a high-performance S&OP process WAV offers free downloadable audit criteria for confirmation of S&OP process excellence and materials for training or course instruction - available from the Web Added ValueTM Download Resource Center at www.jrosspub.com.

The authors present a dynamic approach to effectively link sales and marketing planning directly to the operations side of a business. Demonstrates how to create a connection between a company's business plan and each department's operations, accurately anticipate changes in customer's needs and significantly improve a firm's competitive position with an enhanced level of customer satisfaction.

The challenges facing today's sales executives and their organizations continue to grow, but so do the expectations that they will find ways to overcome them and drive consistent sales growth. There are no simple solutions to this situation, but in this thoroughly updated Second Edition of Sales Growth, experts from McKinsey & Company build on their practical blueprint for achieving this goal and explore what world-class sales executives are doing right now to find growth and capture it—as well as how they are creating the capabilities to keep growing in the future. Based on discussions with more than 200 of today's most successful global sales leaders from a wide array of organizations and industries, Sales Growth puts the experiences of these professionals in perspective and offers real-life examples of how they've overcome the challenges encountered in the quest for growth. The book, broken down into five overarching strategies for successful sales growth, shares valuable lessons on everything from how to beat the competition by looking forward, to turning deep insights into simple messages for the front line. Page by page, you'll learn how sales executives are digging deeper than ever to find untapped growth, maximizing emerging markets opportunities, and powering growth through digital sales. You'll also discover what it takes to find big growth in big data, develop the right "sales DNA" in your organization, and improve channel performance. Three new chapters look at why presales deserve more attention, how to get the most out of marketing, and how technology and outsourcing could entirely reshape the sales function. Twenty new standalone interviews have been added to those from the first edition, so there are now in-depth insights from sales leaders at Adidas, Alcoa, Allianz, American Express, BMW, Cargill, Caterpillar, Cisco, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Deutsche Bank, EMC, Essent, Google, Grainger, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intesa Sanpaolo, Itaú Unibanco, Lattice Engines, Mars, Merck, Nissan, P&G, Pioneer Hi-Bred, Salesforce, Samsung, Schneider Electric, Siemens, SWIFT, UPS, VimpelCom, Vodafone, and Würth. Their stories, as well as numerous case studies, touch on some of the most essential elements of sales, from adapting channels to meet changing customer needs to optimizing sales operations and technology, developing sales talent and capabilities, and effectively leading the way to sales growth. Engaging and informative, this timely book details proven approaches to tangible top-line growth and an improved bottom line. Created specifically for sales executives, it will put you in a better position to drive sales growth in today's competitive market.

Within this book, you'll be able to "go inside" a baker's dozen companies and learn how they use Sales & Operations Planning to run their businesses better. You'll meet large companies and smaller ones, household names and names not widely known, companies whose products you use and companies whose products you've never heard of. You'll also hear from the consultant who helped them implement S&OP. The Best Practices Companies are: Agfa Amcor Cast-Fab Coca-Cola Midi Danfoss Eclipse Eli Lilly EMS Interbake Foods Norse Dairy Products Pyosa The Scotts Company Unicorn Medical Learn: What is this thing called S&OP and why do successful companies use it? What's involved, what are the steps, and how does it work? Where does S&OP work? With which kinds of products? With which kinds of customers? Does it help with the New Product Development and Design process? How are the demand and supply plans for the detailed product mix managed in a way that is consistent with the volume plans from S&OP? Is S&OP really needed in a company using Continuous Improvement methods like Lean Manufacturing or TQM/6 Sigma? How does S&OP work with Supply Chain Management: outside the company, with customers, and with suppliers? In what size company does S&OP work best? How does it work in privately-held companies, global companies and companies using a matrix organization structure? Does S&OP survive ownership or organization changes? How can a company be sure that its financial plans match its operational plans?