Sales and Operations Planning e-book
  a detailed description of the technique and implementation issues

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Sales and Operations Planning - One of the quickest and simplest but most effective manufacturing planning techniques is Sales and Operations Planning. No fancy software is required; most companies just use a spreadsheet. Sales and Operations Planning not only provides a tool to show how manufacturing can meet sales and marketing's objectives but also provides a remarkably precise forecast of financial output for the coming months and so is a tool to help you deliver the most important business objectives.

Sales and Operations Planning is not difficult to learn or apply to most businesses. Our experience in helping companies apply this technique is that they quickly develop a dramatically improved visibility of the future. Sales and Operations planning is currently used in over 50% of manufacturing companies around the world.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Choice of families
• The review process
• Sales planning
  • Sales forecasting
  • New products
• Production planning
• Rough cut capacity planning
• The draft plan
• Partnership meeting
• The sales and operations planning meeting
• Summary

The e-book now comes with 2 template Excel(97) workbooks, compiled from the best examples we have seen, for companies with either dedicated critical resources or critical resources shared across families. The workbook for companies with dedicated resource come set up for 5 families and includes a summary sheet for the critical resource (operators is used as an example). The workbook for companies with common resources includes a sheet for sales and production forecasts and either the order book or inventory calculation plus 2 sheets for the rough cut capacity planning calculation for 2 critical resources. Both workbooks have full instructions to enable them to be applied to whatever kind of business you have.

A Sales and Operations planning e-book is now available in .pdf format which can be read and printed like a book (requires the free Adobe Acrobat reader installed).

You can purchase this 10 page e-book securely by credit card (via PayPal) for just £4.95 (about US$8 or €7) by clicking the image at the top of the page. Full instructions are included on the download page.

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