{"id":1230,"date":"2011-07-06T16:10:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T20:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2011-07-06T16:10:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T20:10:33","slug":"best-of-the-best-sop-conference-an-sop-newbies-point-of-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/2011\/07\/06\/best-of-the-best-sop-conference-an-sop-newbies-point-of-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of the Best S&OP Conference: An S&OP "Newbie's" Point of View"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although our company is considered to be ahead of many companies where our S&OP Process is concerned, I am what might \u00a0be considered to be a \u201cnewbie\u201d in the S&OP arena. I began my journey working in Demand Planning (unfortunately we did not use S&OP then) and now work in supply planning, My direct manager is also the company\u2019s S&OP Group Leader<\/a> and he brought our team to the recent APICS\/IBF Best of the Best S&OP Conference<\/a> to learn more about the process.\u00a0 I spent the entire conference in the Level 1 sessions<\/a>, and learn I did!<\/p>\n

The two day conference<\/a> is a fast paced learning session that will give you an insight to S&OP if you use it at your company like we do now.\u00a0 The conference delivered excellent presenters (HOOAH!), great topics, and was outstandingly well organized. There were \u00a0two levels, one for the more experienced practitioners in S&OP, and one for the less knowledgeable.\u00a0 I stuck with the sessions on the \u00a0level 1 track and learned something from them all. Everything from \u201cResolving Conflict in the Monthly S&OP Monthly Process\u201d to \u201cHow S&OP Can Support New Product Launches\u201d.<\/p>\n

I would encourage any one reading this who is close to planning to attend any \u201cBest of the Best S&OP Conference\u2019s<\/a>\u201d in the future. My manager<\/a>, since he paid for it, is especially satisfied that I attended and actually got something out of a conference that I went to.<\/p>\n

Gary A. Zambo, CPIM
\nSupply Planning Consultant – Central Service Team
\nSC Johnson – A Family Company<\/p>\n

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Although our company is considered to be ahead of many companies where our S&OP Process is concerned, I am what might \u00a0be considered to be a \u201cnewbie\u201d in the S&OP arena. I began my journey working in Demand Planning (unfortunately we did not use S&OP then) and now work in supply planning, My direct manager […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":874,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[82,60,61,62,41,64,65,66,34,39,68,69,35,42,44,36,48,81,37,73,74,38],"class_list":{"0":"post-1230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-forecasting-and-planning","7":"tag-apics","8":"tag-best-practices","9":"tag-business-forecasting","10":"tag-collaborative-forecasting","11":"tag-data-cleansing","12":"tag-demand-forecast","13":"tag-demand-forecasting","14":"tag-demand-management","15":"tag-demand-planning","16":"tag-economic-forecasting","17":"tag-executive-sop","18":"tag-forecast-accuracy","19":"tag-forecasting","20":"tag-forecasting-metrics","21":"tag-forecasting-system","22":"tag-ibf","23":"tag-institute-of-business-forecasting-and-planning","24":"tag-inventory-management","25":"tag-sop","26":"tag-sales-operations-planning","27":"tag-sales-forecasting","28":"tag-supply-chain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}