Analysing EFT’s First S&OP Survey: Part 3, Is It All Worth It?

This is the final article in a three-part article series analysing the first S&OP survey carried out by eft and Hughenden Consulting.

The survey polled 131 global supply chain executives, mostly from large manufacturers, around three sets of questions:

 (1.) How are companies faring on the S&OP journey?;

(2.) Are we all doing the same thing once we get going?; and

(3.) Is it all really worth it?

In this article series, we are examining people’s responses to these sets of questions in more detail.

My last article analysed the major inconsistencies we found in the survey questions related to how companies are living the S&OP process. I referred to Gartner’s “Five-Stage Sales and Operations Planning Maturity Model for Supply Chain Leaders” and found that most of survey respondents appeared to be stuck at level 2, “Anticipate”. These companies mainly use S&OP to achieve short-term, operationally focused and ‘siloed’ objectives.

In this article, I will analyse the final set of survey questions that challenge us to consider whether S&OP is really worth the effort. I often hear industry professionals talking very positively about S&OP’s benefits, but in very generic terms. We wanted to find out what specific benefits companies had achieved and how long they took to pay off. Finally, we wanted to explore the relative importance that people play in achieving breakthroughs to S&OP success as compared to processes and systems.

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