Planificación de la demanda en Fabricante de hielo con John Galt - ERP Spain.com - España y América Latina

Learn how Reddy Ice moved from forecasting in Excel to building an award-winning S&OP

There are major benefits from building a mature forecasting and S&OP process. By managing the demand fulfillment process from end to end, companies are able to build customer satisfaction while reducing their costs to execute. However, spreadsheet-based processes are unable to truly deliver these benefits, due to their manual nature and difficulties in organization.

Many companies attempt to make the shift to a more structured and organized process to manage their planning process end to end, but often these initiatives run into roadblocks that prevent these companies from reaping the rewards of mature planning.

Reddy Ice has been able to make this key shift to a more mature process and system. In just a few months, this new process has begun to drive major improvement in customer service, while simultaneously decreasing logistics costs.

This session will focus on the success that Reddy Ice has had in building this process, and will demonstrate how to overcome some of the obstacles that your company may face in making a similar shift.

Topics to be covered:

-How to begin shifting from spreadsheets to a sustainable S&OP process

-How to avoid major stumbling blocks that can interfere with the transition

-The importance of good change management across the business in building the S&OP process

-How to handle thousands of items and customers with minimal headcount and working hours

-How to use the planning process to mitigate risk and protect customer satisfaction while reducing costs