Sweet & Innocent: Independent S&OP & Forecasting in a Growing FMCG Business
Virtual Best Practices Conference: Business Planning, Forecasting & S&OP/ IBP
Sweet & Innocent: Independent S&OP & Forecasting in a Growing FMCG Business

You will learn:

  • The importance (and difficulty) of a one number forecast in an FMCG business
  • How to gain consensus within S&OP
  • To ensure the purpose, vision and values of a company are reflected in the S&OP process
  • Why Innocent chose to make responsibility for the S&OP process independent of Supply and Sales
  • Best practices based on Innocent's journey to S&OP maturity
author
Simon Ketteringham
Head of Business Delivery
Innocent Drinks
Simon currently works as the Head of Business Delivery at Innocent drinks, responsible for the forecasting and S&OP teams. Prior to this, he led their Business Change team, delivering technology change group-wide. This included the transformation of the Supply Chain Planning systems and a refresh of all the end user computing infrastructure to empower the entire team to work at optimal capacity. Simon’s career has seen him complete a 3-year stint with the Foreign and Commonwealth office in the UK civil service, but the bulk of his experience is at Innocent Drinks where he has worked in a number of Supply and Sales roles. Simon holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Oxford.
author
Jennifer Thornton
Business Delivery Team Leader
Innocent Drinks

Jenn came to S&OP via a range of FMCG roles across both demand and supply. She has driven our S&OP team and processes at innocent since 2013, developing the S&OP partnering model and exploring what being a fast growing, responsible, entrepreneurial business means to our processes and the people who embody them. Jenn is our Global Business Delivery lead.