My Global S&OP Journey

“My Global S&OP Journey” is intended to help those who have been asked to start a Global S&OP process. In this article, I share the lessons I learned. For a successful Global S&OP process we need: Leadership that works very closely with Marketing, Operations, and Finance; a Global S&OP team is comprised of cross-functional people; data that are credible; everyone uses the same metrics to measure performance; all participants speak the same language; and all the key stakeholders actively participate and use feeback to improve the process. JAY NEARNBERG | Mr. Nearnberg is Global Head, Demand Planning and S&OP Excellence for Novartis Consumer Healthcare. He is a true visionary and strategic leader with a successful track record of consistently improving supply chain processes. For over 25 years, he identified game changing opportunities in demand planning, forecasting, customer collaboration, and Sales and Operations Planning. As Senior Director at Pfizer Consumer Healthcare (formerly Wyeth Consumer Healthcare), he built a Demand Planning organization, implemented SAP s Demand Planning application, and created the S&OP process. He is a veteran of Warner- Lambert Company, now part ...