This course is focused upon better business performance, through better planning and control of the business by top management. Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) is the traditional name for the process, although some have tried to introduce alternative titles, such as Integrated Business Management and SOFplan – Sales, Operations, and Financial Planning. The process is about ensuring that the top-level plans in the business – covering product management, sales, marketing, operations, resources, finance, engineering, human resources, IT – are all balanced to achieve the strategic plans of the organization, in the medium to long term.
Financial Planners
Cost Analysts
Professional Advisers
Account Personnel
Business Consultants
Professionals who require a more in-depth understanding of integrated planning & budgeting techniques
Accountants responsible for budget preparation & management reporting
Why do organizations need S&OP?
Where does it fit in the hierarchy of ERP and Supply Chain systems?
What are the benefits that can be achieved?
Who does what?
An introduction to the 5 step Sales & Operations Planning process.
Step 1 of the process.
Managing the product or service portfolio.
New product introduction, phasing out old products.
What is the overall objective of demand planning?
The essential difference between forecasting and demand planning.
The inputs to the demand planning process.
The logic of demand planning.
The outputs from demand planning – the data required to be passed on.
Demand planning exercise.
Demand planning & demand management.
The demand planning meeting.
What is the overall objective of supply and resource planning?
The inputs to the supply planning process.
The logic of supply planning.
The outputs from supply planning – the data required to be passed on.
The inputs to resource planning.
The logic of resource planning.
The outputs from resource planning – the data to be passed on.
A supply and resource planning exercise.
The supply & resource planning meeting.
What must be integrated?
What must be reconciled?
Who must be involved?
What is the agenda for the pre-S&OP meeting?
The importance of the financial numbers.
Identifying gaps between the budget and the S&OP numbers, and discussing potential action plans to close the gaps.
Planning the agenda for the executive S&OP meeting.
Publishing the information for senior management.
Who must be involved? Who runs the meeting?
The agenda for the S&OP meeting.
The review of each family to consider the balance of demand and supply.
The review of the overall financial numbers.
Decisions to be taken, the minutes of the meeting.
Identifying what can be improved in the next cycle.
Because supervisory levels are the link between the executive and senior management levels, achieving the organization's objectives, increasing productivity and overall performance of the organization, affects the effectiveness and efficiency of supervisors' performance.
And because of the skills of supervisors in any organization in need of continuous development, and to acquire advanced tools and methods that reflect on the deepening of these skills and activate their role in motivating individuals working, and push them to commit to the goals of the organization.
You need this conference to learn about supervisory skills and advanced methods, to be able to play an effective and supervisory role in your organization.
Managing an office has become an increasingly sophisticated and complex job. The increased demand for speed and accuracy, knowledge of new technology, and an increasingly diverse workforce bring challenges and also opportunities for growth. This dynamic and in-depth course explores some of the more advanced skills which can help an office manager to work more confidently, creatively, and effectively.
As a supervisor, the success of your organization rests in your hands. This course provides you with the opportunity to develop highly effective and essential supervisory skills that will strengthen teamwork and organizational success. Also, this course will help you manage everyday operations with greater ease. Furthermore, it will help you leverage both your managerial and people skills to meet your new challenges as the 21st-century supervisor.
This course is designed for participants to introduce to key issues and themes in international development.
Participants will explore and engage in academic debates and discussions around a set of key factors that shape, influence, and constrain the development and prosperity of nations.
The course will explore a number of key themes in international development, including how questions of gender and generation shape the impact of poverty; how processes of globalization, migration, and violent conflict impact development; and how development and the environment are linked.
It also considers what exactly we mean by poverty, and how different ways of understanding poverty feed into different approaches to tackling it.
It will also consider development institutions: what are the key institutions in the architecture of international development? How do they differ, and what are the challenges and opportunities they present? Through this module, participants will gain a solid background in the various factors which shape current approaches to and debates on international development.
By introducing participants to a range of problems in economic development, we will look to analyze how economic theory and models can explain the lack of development in some nations. We will apply such theory to real-world economies to understand the nature of the problems they face and how effective policies can be in tackling the problems.
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