The S&OP/IBP Evolution Continues

When S&OP was first defined back in 1981 by Walt Goddard who was Oliver Wight’s partner and future president of the Oliver Wight companies who became one of the greatest influences upon my career, the focus of S&OP was the balance of Supply and Demand over an 18 month horizon, which was the message that I heard when I attended one of the first S&OP courses presented in the UK in 1983. Then back in the mid 1990’s the iconic ‘5-Step’ IBP process was developed by Oliver Wight by which time I was a managing partner of Oliver Wight Europe.

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