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Home 〉Supply Chain Consulting 〉Integrated Demand and Supply Planning 〉Executive S&OP and IBP
Move away from siloed planning, competing incentives, and reactive responses. Begin to orchestrate your business proactively for maximum agility, efficiency, and value generation. Balance supply and demand. Shape sales to availability and supply to forecasts. Determine supply/demand gaps with sufficient lead time to act. Identify shortfalls and upside opportunities vs. financial plans, and begin to use Planning as a strategic weapon to achieve your key business objectives.
S&OP/IBP Review, Opportunity Assessment and Improvement Roadmap: Evaluate your S&OP/IBP processes and performance vs. maturity models and best practices. Identify gaps, charter improvement initiatives, and develop a roadmap for cross-functional planning improvement.Option to combine with Demand, Inventory, and Supply scope to create an end-to-end Integrated Planning opportunity assessment and roadmap (recommended).
S&OP/IBP Process Design, Playbook and Rollout: Design and/or improve your S&OP/IBP approach and process, create a Playbook to document and capture your cadence, roles, responsibilities, RACI charts, process maps, meeting agendas and outcomes, and then roll out the process with implementation support from our expert practitioners at whatever level of engagement is best-fit for your needs – from executive education workshops to full-time change management support. Achieving S&OP/IBP maturity and creating a truly collaborative and proactive, forward-looking environment of integrated planning is a journey over time. Walk the path to bright with Chainalytics at your side to ensure your progression.
S&OP/IBP Technology Requirements Development: Determine and document the needs of your business and formulate requirements for selection and use of S&OP/IBP enabling technologies and/or modules, within your core planning technology or as a separate and integrated layer supporting your cross-functional planning processes.
S&OP/IBP Technology Selection Support: Get the experts on your side before and during engagement with providers to select a new planning technology. Create RFPs, use cases and demo scripts, scoring criteria, and facilitate workshops and the overall selection project.
S&OP/IBP Technology Implementation and Transformation: Implement or re-configure your S&OP/IBP technology, from process design, to change management and PMO, to user acceptance testing and end-user training. Translate requirements into configuration specifications, create optimized solution architecture, implement functional and technical designs, test, tune, and go-live.
Chris concurrently serves as Chief Scientist for Chainalytics and the Executive Director of MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics. At Chainalytics, Chris pioneered the Freight Market Intelligence Consortium which he presently co-leads.
In his role as Executive Director of the Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is responsible for the planning and management of the research, education, and corporate outreach programs for the center to include the Supply Chain Exchange and the Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) graduate program. He is also the founder of the MIT FreightLab – a research initiative that focuses on improving the way freight transportation is designed, procured, and managed. Prior to joining MIT, Chris held senior management positions in supply chain consulting, product development, and professional services at several companies, including Logistics.com, SABRE, and PTCG.
Chris holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Transportation and Logistics Systems, a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI).
Inam leads the global Freight Market Intelligence Consortium (FMIC) at Chainalytics. In this role, he develops intelligence solutions for the transportation market using machine learning and data visualization techniques. FMIC offers unparalleled visibility to transportation rates and market data across the globe, making it the most powerful and trusted source of freight market intelligence.
Prior to joining Chainalytics, Inam led the engineering team at Transplace, a third party logistics provider, where he developed and innovated such service offerings as network optimization, site selection, procurement, and transportation optimization. These services helped many shippers balance the cost and service trade-offs across their large, complex networks.
Inam holds a Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas in Applied Operations Research, a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Oklahoma State University.