Mission and Operations Planning Course (M&OP)

This Oliver Wight course on Integrated Planning for the government sector - Mission and Operations Planning Course (M&OP) - is designed to help you, and your team, learn the best practices for Sales and Operations Planning/Integrated Business Planning that are widely applied by industry today.

There's mounting interest in Sales and Operations Planning within the government sector, which is looking to leverage private industry best practices to improve their operational performance. But some in not-for-profit organizations question how applicable practices used in the private sector are to the government sector.

We have developed this course to help managers in government services better understand the tangible results that are reasonable to expect from utilizing Integrated Planning best practices in your organization. We will not only demonstrate the best practice principles, we will guide you on how to best apply those principles.

Because the "business for profit" terminology often gets in the way of change and improvement, this class speaks the language of the government services sector. You will leave the seminar with a better understanding – explained in your terms and applicable to your agency -- of how to apply best practice Integrated Planning principles to your government work. Whether you think of your process as Demand and Operations Planning or Integrated Logistics Planning or Integrated Acquisition Planning or Integrated Supply Chain Planning as an accurate nomenclature, this course will help you understand how the application of integrated planning best practices can be used to improve performance and reduce costs.

Mission and Operations Planning (M&OP) is:

• A process led by senior management in government that evaluates and revises time-phased projections for mission parameters; funding sources; demand, supply, product and portfolio changes; strategic projects; and the resulting financial plans. This is done at the aggregate level on a monthly basis, typically over a 24-month, or longer, rolling planning horizon.
• A decision-making process that realigns the tactical plans for all mission functions in all geographies to support the agency's strategies, goals, and targets.
• A consensus process for committing to a single operating plan to which executives of the management team hold themselves accountable and allocate the critical resources of people, equipment, materials, time, and money to meet mission objectives.

If you are a management team member of a government agency or a not-for-profit organization who is involved in planning processes or forecasting demand, you will find this course provides answers on how to better operate in these times where budgets and performance are being challenged.