Sales Planning vs. Demand Planning: Getting Sales Back Into S&OP
Featured Presenter:
Danny Smith, Vice President, Industries, Steelwedge Software
In recent years, functions other than Sales – including Supply Chain and Finance – have often taken ownership of predicting future sales. The process has become an aggregation exercise done by specialists, and the name itself – demand management – indicates that the Sales team is not intimately involved. But true S&OP requires Sales to “own their number,” which delivers company-wide benefits because Sales is the closest to the demand signal.
In this webinar you will learn about:
- The Sales Planning Challenges
- The Keys to Success
- How a Sales Planning Platform Can Help You Hit Your Number
10. September 2012:
• Facebook: 900 Million
• LinkedIn: 177 Million
• Twitter: 140 Million Today:
• Facebook: 1.3 Billion
• LinkedIn: 277 Million
• Twitter: 646 Million
Social Listening for Competitive Advantage:
Bruce Richardson, Chief Enterprise Strategist, Salesforce
From Steelwedge Webinar April 2014 “Social Supply Chain: Linking Sales Intelligence to Supply Chain and Finance”
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5%
5%
8%
10%
13%
12%
15%
22%
3%
6%
5%
5%
6%
7%
10%
9%
12%
8%
14%
16%
3%
7%
7%
6%
8%
10%
11%
6%
12%
14%
13%
Other
Lack of external cross-functional collaboration
Managing relationships + processes with outsourcing partners
Cost volatility
Logistics constraints, performance, or costs
Supplier performance/variability
Lack of visibility across supply chain
Supply chain talent
Lack of internal cross-functional collaboration
Supply chain network complexity
Difficulty or inability to coordinate and synchronize end-to-end SC processes
Forecast accuracy + demand variability
Ranked First
Ranked Second
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Sum = 51%
42%
30%
29%
32%
31%
20%
17%
11%
16%
Q07. What do you consider to be the top three obstacles to achieving your organization's supply chain goals and objectives?
14%
6%
... and it has been this way for years!
Despite Spending All That Money on Planning …
Tim Payne, Research Vice President, Gartner
From Steelwedge Webinar June 2013 “From Re-think Your Planning Technology Priorities”