{"id":1655,"date":"2013-01-15T15:23:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T20:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2013-01-15T15:23:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T20:23:15","slug":"creating-a-worldwide-sop-model-at-elanco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/2013\/01\/15\/creating-a-worldwide-sop-model-at-elanco\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Worldwide S&OP Model at Elanco"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tracy<\/a>

Tracy Cherba<\/p><\/div>\n

S&OP is such a basic concept, yet so difficult to implement effectively across the globe. \u00a0It\u2019s hard enough trying to get one S&OP process<\/a> created, but how do you go about creating a process that works together across time zones, language barriers and cultural differences?\u00a0 It\u2019s a journey that takes time, patience and consistency.<\/p>\n

Elanco is a world leader in developing products and services that enhance animal health, wellness and performance across the globe.\u00a0 In order to make sure that everyone understands the impacts of demand and supply decisions around the world, we had to develop a process that would facilitate the communication and decision making process and make sure that the right conversations were taking place at the right time.<\/p>\n

I was brought into the role of S&OP Global Leader with the assignment to create a process that would enhance our level of communication, create a consistent process that could be replicated across 5 geographic regions and provide tools \/ training<\/a> that would work for all levels of the organization. S&OP is not a new concept to Elanco and has evolved over the years to mean many different things to different people within the company.\u00a0\u00a0 The key is working with all of the S&OP levels (Executive, Affiliate, Site, External Manufacturers, etc.) and S&OP participants (SC, Marketing, Finance, Quality, etc) to come up with a process that can work for everyone!<\/p>\n

The first thing I did was ask for S&OP packets across the different areas of the organization \u2013 examples from a manufacturing site, a sales affiliate and an external manufacturing hub.\u00a0 Who knew that this request would produce so many inconsistencies?\u00a0 And in some cases it proved to be impossible to locate the packets at all.\u00a0 Those packets I did locate, didn\u2019t necessarily tell anyone what needed to be done next but included numerous amounts of slides.\u00a0 Many of the meetings were long, didn\u2019t include the right people and really didn\u2019t have concrete actions coming out of them.\u00a0 There were some examples where the S&OP processes were very good and could be replicated to other areas.\u00a0 Developing a set of tools and training to facilitate the S&OP meetings was a necessary first step.\u00a0 This includes setting expectations on what metrics will be reviewed, who will participate, what information will be communicated and the timing of the meetings.\u00a0 It can\u2019t just be left to up to those with \u201cSupply Chain\u201d in their title!<\/p>\n

The Elanco S&OP structure includes an Executive level, 5 regions, sales affiliates located all over the world, 5 manufacturing sites and 5 external manufacturing hubs. If we didn\u2019t have the right people in the room with a clear understanding of what the goals were \u2013 this was never going to work!\u00a0 We couldn\u2019t have \u201cpart-time\u201d players\u2026\u00a0 and we HAD to have leadership support throughout all levels of the S&OP structure.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve learned a lot along the way\u2026\u00a0 The S&OP rollout continues to be a journey that evolves as we learn more.\u00a0 We\u2019ve learned a valuable lesson along the way that one size does not necessarily fit all.\u00a0 We\u2019ve also learned that the global nature of this effort means that patience and flexibility need to be your friend!\u00a0 While S&OP may be a basic concept \u2013 creating an S&OP process that people across the globe feel is valuable isn\u2019t so basic!<\/p>\n

I will also be elaborating on our Global S&OP Journey at IBF’s Supply Chain Forecasting & Planning Conference,\u00a0February\u00a024-26, 2013<\/a>. \u00a0Hopefully, we’ll see you there.<\/p>\n

Tracy Cherba<\/strong>
\nSupply Chain Global Leader – S&OP\/OSSCE<\/strong>
\nElanco Animal Health\/ Eli Lilly & Co.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

S&OP is such a basic concept, yet so difficult to implement effectively across the globe. \u00a0It\u2019s hard enough trying to get one S&OP process created, but how do you go about creating a process that works together across time zones, language barriers and cultural differences?\u00a0 It\u2019s a journey that takes time, patience and consistency. Elanco […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[244,65,34,245,35,246,36,247,37,38],"class_list":{"0":"post-1655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-forecasting-and-planning","7":"tag-consensus","8":"tag-demand-forecasting","9":"tag-demand-planning","10":"tag-elanco","11":"tag-forecasting","12":"tag-global-sop","13":"tag-ibf","14":"tag-lilly","15":"tag-sop","16":"tag-supply-chain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655"}],"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\/1300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}