Published: 24 July 2024
Organizations often focus on improving forecast accuracy to advance S&OP business outcomes. However, to elevate outcomes, supply chain planning leaders must leverage their supply step to manage demand variability and frame alternatives in terms of financial impact and implications.
Organizations often focus on improving forecast accuracy and maturing demand planning as the primary means to improve business outcomes.
Supply chain planning leaders often miss the opportunity to leverage supply planning to more effectively deal with demand variations. They are not advancing their supply step to enable decision making around risks to and opportunities in the global supply response, including implications for service, cost, cash and revenue.
The imbalance in the focus on these capabilities is hindering the organization’s ability to orchestrate plan alignment and optimize business outcomes.
Supply chain planning leaders looking to increase executive engagement and elevate the outcomes
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