S&OP/IBP Business Improvement Specialists

Oliver Wight principals are leading business improvement specialists who educate, coach, and mentor people to lead and sustain change on the journey to business excellence and outstanding business performance. The largest worldwide consultancy of our type, we have offices in North and South America, Europe, and the Asia/Pacific region.

Oliver Wight consultants specialize in Sales and Operations Planning/Integrated Business Planning (S&OP/IBP). Providing knowledge transfer, facilitation, coaching, mentoring, and motivational support, they have come out of industry with a wide variety of hands-on experience, and their capabilities include:

• Strategic Planning
• Sales and Operations Planning/Integrated Business Planning (S&OP/IBP)
• Demand Planning
• Retail S&OP
• Supply Chain Management
• Retail Collaboration
• Software Selection
• Distribution Management
• Performance Measurement
• Process Acceleration
• Managing and Leading People

Bring them to the table with your executives and managers to develop a winning plan for success. Combined with our private and public courses and our books, articles, and case studies written by the experts highlighting clients' successes, our products and services can ensure a compressed time to benefit.

Sales and Operations Planning/Integrated Business Planning (S&OP / IBP)

The Oliver Wight Companies are the recognized leaders when it comes to Sales and Operations Planning/Integrated Business Planning (S&OP/IBP). While Oliver Wight originated the Sales and Operations Planning process and pioneered its early development, Oliver Wight Americas' business improvement specialists carry on this tradition by continuously innovating and improving the S&OP process and its technology to meet the increasingly rigid demands placed on today's manufacturing industries. The ultimate goal is to foster the evolution of S&OP into Integrated Business Planning.

A properly-implemented Integrated Business Planning process realigns company plans in response to change, including the integration of financial plans. It drives gap-closing actions to address competitive priorities, upper-quartile performance, and to deliver management commitments. It deploys the business strategy. Integrated Business Planning consists of a proper structure, integration of business reviews and reconciliation, strategy alignment and deployment, risk and contingency planning, financial integration, performance measurement, and behaviors.

To compress time to benefit, Oliver Wight has developed strategies and tools:

FastTrack S&OP/IBP is one such innovation. It is a highly-focused, short-term program that enables companies to integrate demand and supply planning, inventory planning, new product development, financial planning, and strategic initiatives to achieve improved business results. It is designed to deliver business results fast - in 90 days or less.

Another is the Enterprise Sales & Operations Planning Tool, which enables an effective S&OP/IBP process and provides a critical link between the traditional ERP system and the senior-level planning process. Oliver Wight Americas' S&OP/IBP consultants are seasoned manufacturing professionals who can help your company assess its needs, develop an effective process, and transfer knowledge to your team enabling them to operate and maintain its S&OP/IBP process to attain significant business results.

Reduce costs, free up capital, and improve productivity - fast using the FastTrack to Results approach!