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Sales and Operational Planning
Sales and Operational Planning
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) is a process that engages Sales, Operations, Finance, as well as Product Development to collaborate for development of an integrated set of plans that all are committed to support the business. It should not be seen as a sales plan thrown over the wall to operations as a production plan. The purpose of S&OP is to balance supply and demand, to plan effectively based upon the best information available at a given point in time.
The output of the S&OP process should be one integrated set of plans that shows;
Key financial forecasts
Rough cut capacity plans
Key raw material requiements
Lean Manufacturing
Lean Manufacturing
Lean is a transformative strategy that businesses embrace in order to improve competitive advantage and increase value to its customers. Here are some of the tools & techniques we specialise in;
Value Stream Mapping
5's - Workplace Organisation
OEE - Overall Equipment Effectiveness
TPM - Total Productive Maintenance
SMED - Single Minute Exchange of Die
Factory Workflow and Layout
Pull System Implementation
Kanban Implementation
Structured Problem Solving
Operations Management
Operations Management
To be affective at operations management, employees need to understand the strategy and have measures that are aligned to the overall business objectives. The day to day tasks become less about firefighting and more about issues management with action plans and structured problem solving to get things on track. Improvements become more sustainable and the business is less likely to revert back to old ways and inefficiency.