S&OP Course - intelichain

Simplifying S&OP | Practical Online Course

Join a five-session engaging webinar series and learn how to overcome challenges and lead your organization to a successful S&OP process.

5 Online sessions

Sessions length: 3 hours, total of 15 hours

Upcoming course starts in May

Instructed by 3 experienced leaders

About the Course

Course Agenda

Best-practice theory & effective training materials
S&OP meeting templates
S&OP analytics that, focus on business value
Actual use-cases
Knowledge sharing & discussion

Where and When?

Tuesdays, 09:00AM-12:00PM, EST
Online webinar
The upcoming course starts in May
Additional courses sill be commence in July and September

Our Instructors

Roei Aviram

CEO & Founder, Intelichain

S&OP is a dance between demand and supply, orchestrating the perfect rhythm of demand driven inventory and fulfilment

Former Head of Supply Chain Planning & Operations (SC&O) at EY Israel
Supply Chain Planning Lecturer at department at Azrieli College of Engineering in Jerusalem
Sr. Director of Global Supply Chain at AL Group
Plant manager (GM) experience – Automotive Industry, South Carolina, USA
Supply chain management leadership roles at TEVA Pharmaceuticals
Acknowledged as the top 5 global influencers in Supply Chain Planning in 2023 by CIO VIEWS
Master Degree in Supply Chain Management & Logistics
Excellence in Supply Chain Management Program, Coller School of Management, Tel-Aviv University
Senior Management Executive Program at EY, Orlando, USA
Lean-Six Sigma/ OpEx IWS certified
Bsc. Industrial Engineering

Chris Turner

S&OP Expert & Founder StrataBridge

Designed properly S&OP/IBP offers a platform to connect strategy development, deployment and delivery, establishing the capability to both deliver now and grow tomorrow

Innovator, educator, adviser and coach on developing ‘S&OP/IBP’ as a means of connecting decision-making across organizations and building the capabilities for change and growth
A highly respected facilitator, Chris has a unique ability to understand and simplify complex issues and opportunities and translate these into coherent action
Consults with organizations around the world; across industries, countries, and cultures
Regular speaker and facilitator at international conferences, corporate retreats and workshops
Founded StrataBridge in 2000, advising leaders in fast-moving, growth-oriented organizations – we all need to be now! – on strategy, innovation, change and growth
Prior to forming StrataBridge, formerly part of leadership team of Oliver Wight EAME, 1989-2000

Eric J. Tinker

Managing Principal, Nexview Consulting, LLC

S&OP is the enterprise platform for leadership development and continuous improvement

Consulting leader with 25+ years of experience helping global and midmarket clients achieve large-scale change within their organizations
Consulted and taught S&OP and supply chain including the supporting processes, systems, and organization improvement techniques across 5 continents
Client documented results from projects exceed $500MM USD
Industry experience in Consumer Goods, Chemicals, Life Sciences, High Tech, and Energy among others
Conference speaker and author of several published articles
Author Sales & Operations Planning RESULTS and S&OP Jumpstart!
Former leadership roles at Deloitte & Touche, Celerant Consulting, other consulting firms, and Hughes Aircraft
MBA University of Southern California, MS Mechanical Engineering California State University, BS Aerospace Engineering Syracuse University
Certified Public Accountant, Six-Sigma Black Belt

Course Syllabus

Portfolio Planning

Introduction to S&OP / IBP process
S&OP best practices
S&OP use cases & benefits
Portfolio planning foundations
Assortment review
NPI & EOL management
Promotions & events
Portfolio meeting simulation using best practice templates

Demand Planning

Demand planning foundations
Demand segmentations
Forecasting KPIs
Consensus demand forecast
(practical approach for unbiased consensus)
Demand planning process

Supply Planning

Supply planning foundations
Inventory optimization
Supply planning 5 leading strategies
Master Planning (build a feasible production plan)
Supply KPIs
Supply planning process
Supply meeting simulation using best practice template

Pre & Executive S&OP

How to dollarize product units to financial units
Scenarios planning (Demand & Supply imbalances to be mitigated)
KPIs Root-cause analysis
Risks & Opportunities mapping
Data-driven decision-making & effective data visualization
Pre-S&OP meeting simulation using session best practice template

Use-Cases & Wrap-Up

An exercise using a case-study with real data where participants and instructor will execute a demand plan S&OP panel experts involving guest speakers
S&OP panel experts involving guest speakers discussing key challenges, success stories & failures in their S&OP Journey

Course Benefits

The course training materials will be given free of charge by the end of the course
Participants are provided with a 2-hour valuable consultation upon request with one of our experts, free of charge