{"id":706,"date":"2010-02-08T11:14:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T18:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/?p=706"},"modified":"2010-02-08T11:14:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T18:14:26","slug":"rockin-the-sop-process-at-fender-musical-instruments-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/2010\/02\/08\/rockin-the-sop-process-at-fender-musical-instruments-corporation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockin' the S&OP Process at Fender Musical Instruments Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Anderson<\/p><\/div>\n

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John Becker<\/p><\/div>\n

Monday, 8:05am: your boss calls you into his office and says, \u201cI just got back from the Supply Chain Forecasting & Planning Conference<\/a>.\u00a0 We need to start a S&OP process!\u201d\u00a0 He hands you a 9 inch thick textbook and barks \u201cget it going!!.\u201d<\/p>\n

So you dutifully read the textbook, gather your team, collate the data, and have your first S&OP meeting.\u00a0 It is a resounding and utter . . . failure.\u00a0 \u201cThis data isn\u2019t correct, the sales are off by $1.35!, that\u2019s 0.002%\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWhat do I care about OEM capacity, I have a trade show next week!\u201d\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t have time for another meeting, I have work to do!\u201d\u00a0 Sound familiar?\u00a0 It does to us, as we lived this nightmare twice.<\/p>\n

However, we lived to tell this tale, and currently have a solid but basic S&OP process in place at Fender Musical Instrument Corporation.\u00a0 Furthermore, we are on the path to implement a full-fledged S&OP process across our organization including subsidiaries and over-seas offices.<\/p>\n

In Phoenix at the IBF Conference on Feb 22-23<\/a>, we will offer some insights into what to do when the best laid plans fail; how we learned from our mistakes, changed tactics, and ultimately got on the right track.\u00a0 We will discuss how we won over a management team who had lost faith in our data, a sales organization who were indifferent to our efforts, and a marketing team who didn\u2019t realize that S&OP could help them in their effort to create the \u201cSpirit of Rock n\u2019 Roll.\u201d\u00a0 Please bring questions and your own war stories of successes and failures from the S&OP front.<\/p>\n

Of course, we welcome hearing your S&OP challenges here too!<\/p>\n

John Becker
\nVP of Global Supply Chain Planning
\nFender Musical Instruments Corporation<\/p>\n

Mike Anderson
\nManager of Global Demand Forecasting
\nFender Musical Instruments Corporation<\/a><\/p>\n

See JOHN BECKER & MICHAEL ANDERSON <\/strong>from FENDER <\/strong><\/strong>Speak in Phoenix at IBF’S:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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$695 USD for Conference Only!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

February 22-23, 2010
\nPhoenix, Arizona USA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Monday, 8:05am: your boss calls you into his office and says, \u201cI just got back from the Supply Chain Forecasting & Planning Conference.\u00a0 We need to start a S&OP process!\u201d\u00a0 He hands you a 9 inch thick textbook and barks \u201cget it going!!.\u201d So you dutifully read the textbook, gather your team, collate the data, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[65,34,137,35,36,37,74,38],"class_list":{"0":"post-706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-forecasting-and-planning","7":"tag-demand-forecasting","8":"tag-demand-planning","9":"tag-fender","10":"tag-forecasting","11":"tag-ibf","12":"tag-sop","13":"tag-sales-forecasting","14":"tag-supply-chain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}