Abstract
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes and systems are instrumental for defining medium to long term planning scenarios for global supply chains in the automotive industry. S&OP facilitates the definition of realistic plans across internal and external supply chains. Long term plans for sales, production and supply chain capacities form the framework for achieving customer service level requirements as well as internal turnover and efficiency targets. By considering the effects of unplanned events in the long-term stages of supply chain planning, necessary actions can be defined and taken early. As a result, the resilience of supply chain operations grows.
ZF Friedrichshafen AG, a German tier-1 automotive supplier is engaged in a programme for establishing standardised S&OP processes that utilise standard IT systems. The keynote speech will highlight the importance of defining end-to-end processes across business functions, taking a human-centric approach when implementing these processes and the related IT systems as well as modelling and managing the complex dataspaces at the core of the S&OP systems.
Profile
Mr Gregor von Cieminski joined ZF Friedrichshafen AG in 2009 and has served in expert and leadership roles in the area of Supply Chain Management. He has implemented and optimized supply chain planning systems at production plants world-wide and managed teams responsible for end-to-end supply chain planning processes. He is past-chairperson of IFIP Working Group 5.7 on Advances in Production Management Systems.