Steelwedge Agility Webinar Series
Featuring Nari Viswanathan, VP of Product Marketing and Management, Steelwedge
Join Steelwedge as we round up the best of the best in practice, process, and case study lessons learned from a dynamic year of "S&OP Agility" thought leadership webinars. We'll summarize our favorite insights from industry pundits and practitioners alike. At this live webinar, you'll learn how the industry's leaders are rethinking, rescoping, and researching how to turn static S&OP planning practices into more agile business opportunities.
As a bonus, we'll give you a peek at the future in terms of what you can -- and should -- be getting from your S&OP technology.
Learn the 5 trends that can power your company's planning in 2013:
• Adopt and automate your unique process: build your own app
• Act faster with better analytics
• Leverage the power of cloud
• Mobilize your planning!
• Reduce Time to Value
To learn more about S&OP, please visit: http://www.steelwedge.com/solutions/
In fact, new research published in May 2012, shows that there is a GAP between the importance of business agility, and businesses actual ability to be nimble enough to respond to change with their business plans.90% of business executives interviewed said that agility was critical for their businesses to compete, yet-Only 27% feel that they are agile enough.So where should you start in creating your business agility? According to leading research firms such as Gartner and International Data Corporation, manufacturers across all markets worldwide, are turning the Sales & Operations Planning—or S&OP—to bring together a single view of their business for better market responsiveness. In fact, S&OP is the #1 application–and the most urgent area of inquiry for manufacturers.
Conclusion: Up to 77% of the enterprises surveyed may not be advancing their S&OP process competency at a rate of change requisite to remain competitive when considering current market factors impacting Enterprise Risk such as the continued acceleration of Supply Chain Network Complexity, Emerging Market Sales, High Demand Volatility and the exponentially increasing volume of Corporate Data.
Conclusion: Nearly 70% of the companies surveyed have trouble integrating the market change signals they pick up mid-cycle into their demand and supply decision making, forcing a reactive vs. proactive posture that yields sub-optimized results.
Conclusion: Close to 85% of the companies surveyed lack the collaborative and analytic tools to perform the dynamic and complex tasks required to complete an Executive S&OP cycle by the certified Best Practice standards taught industry wide.
Conclusion: More than 90% of the businesses surveyed spend disproportionately more time (up to 70% more hours than needed) sourcing, aggregating, translating and distributing data, than they do invested in value adding strategic collaboration around the unique demand-supply trade off decision-making discussions that lead to consistently predictable enterprise performance aligned with plan.
Conclusion: An alarming 90% of the companies surveyed show a recognized gap in Business Agility.
There are often gaps between enterprise applications that are filled with off-line business processes, many times in Excel. Steelwedge Business Apps leverage the planning data collected from across your system landscape and drives these company-specific processes.Steelwedge offers a growing library of Apps and enables users to create their own Apps. Please contact SW with your
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Better collaborationAnalyze cross-functional data fasterNo more “information black holes”