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S&OP: Structural & Over-optimistic Positivism?


Last month I visited two different clients, in both cases for delivering an S&OP Master Class, and I subsequently attended their Demand Review meetings. Always interesting, a bit of theory that is applied into practice immediately afterwards. Part of the Master Classes was a simple S&OP Maturity Scan, mainly included to make people think. What...

S&OP a painful process? Maybe we should finally start blaming ourselves!


It is the main theme of 2014. Again. Books, magazines, blogs, opinion and expert articles, advertisements galore! But how often do you happen to bump into something really new? When was the last time that you were surprised by a truly original view? It seems so logical. A process in which the plans of the different business functions are...

S&OP? I have better things to do!


Without doubt, S&OP has been one of the most popular management buzzwords of the past decade. Gurus, consultants, blog writers and recently also software suppliers have claimed the topic. S&OP is hot and everybody wants to get a piece of the cake. Rightly so, because S&OP is a powerful concept with huge potential. Potential, that more often than...