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Business Improvement Specialists

Oliver Wight 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 provide 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:

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Strategic Planning
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S&OP and Demand Management
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Integrated Business Management
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Supply Chain Management
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Retail Collaboration
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Software Selection
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Distribution Management
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Performance Measurement
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Process Acceleration
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Managing and Leading People

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

Sales & Operations Planning / Integrated Business Management

The Oliver Wight Companies are the recognized leaders when it comes to Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP).   While Oliver Wight originated the S&OP 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 today's manufacturing industries must meet. The ultimate goal is to foster the evolution of S&OP into Integrated Business Management.

A properly-implemented Integrated Business Management 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 Management 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 SOP is one such innovation.   It is a highly-focused, short-term program that enables companies the ability 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 process and provides a critical link between the traditional ERP system and the senior-level planning process. Oliver Wight Americas' principals are seasoned manufacturing professionals who can help your company assess its S&OP needs, develop an effective process, and transfer knowledge to your team enabling them to operate and maintain its S&OP process to attain significant business results.

S&OP Research Study: Exclusive research study reveals valuable insights about how companies do S&OP.  The focus is on people, processes, technology and performance management issues. This report introduces S&OP Maturity Model along with many recommendations for users.
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Oliver Wight Business Improvement Specialists