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S&OP & IBP

Process design, cycle time, approval gates, consensus, scenario planning. The workflow that turns a forecast into a plan your organisation will actually follow.

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S&OP console, cycle lock

Course moduleintermediate

Module 6: Scenario planning and what-ifs

The sixth module of the Planning Foundations course. How to model what-if scenarios without disrupting the baseline plan. The overlay approach, comparison, and promotion.

Kislay S12 min

Course modulefoundational

Module 4: The S&OP cycle and sequential gates

The fourth module of the Planning Foundations course. How the S&OP process turns a forecast into a published plan. Sequential gates, consensus, cycle lock, and why most S&OP cycles take three days when they should take four hours.

Kislay S14 min

Conceptintermediate

Why scenario planning fails: the overlay problem

Most scenario planning tools copy the entire baseline plan and let you edit the copy. This breaks the moment the baseline changes. The fix is sparse overlays, and almost no tool does it correctly.

Kislay S7 min

Conceptintermediate

The 4-hour S&OP cycle is not a goal. It is a consequence of design.

Most S&OP cycles take three days because they are designed to take three days. The cycle time is a function of process architecture, not effort. Change the architecture and the time collapses.

S&OP & IBP

Module 6: Scenario planning and what-ifs

Module 4: The S&OP cycle and sequential gates

Why scenario planning fails: the overlay problem

The 4-hour S&OP cycle is not a goal. It is a consequence of design.

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