S&OP - Sales and Operation Planning

Marino Associates can assist you in establishing a formal S& OP process. The process of insuring that your demand and supply is in balance is not always understood and often overlooked as one of the solutions in:

1. Improving Customer Service
2. Lowering Inventory
3. Lowering Lead Times
4. Stabilizing production rates and lower cost of expediting
5. Improving the dynamics of the factory
6. Linkage of all key strategic and tactical plans

We will establish process that links the company's strategic plans and business plans to the detailed day to day processes.

We believe that all other improvement strategies and plans fall under the S& OP umbrella and need to be aligned and managed as a close loop process.

We assist in the development of an S& OP processes that becomes a company's view into future requirements and will allow them the time to react to:

• Changes in the forecast
• New Product Introduction
• Sales and Marketing initiatives
• Issues in the supply chain
• Issues with factory capacity

The processes we will develop with your team enhances your ability to react to future issues.