Planning & Control

You should consider Planning & Control for your business if:

• You are struggling to attain consistent delivery of operational performance goals and financial objectives

• You are experiencing rapid growth and can no longer manage effectively using an informal and non-integrated processes

• Complaints from customers about poor delivery and quality are escalating

• You are experiencing daily surprises from violent and unpredictable swings in forecast accuracy

• Inventory write-offs are increasing

• Costs are unpredictable

• People are consumed by daily firefighting

• You are receiving complaints from suppliers about orders being placed inside stated lead times

• You are constantly expediting materials for production

• Priorities in product development seem to be constantly changing and launch dates missed

• Trust in data used for planning is poor

• Your organization uses multiple databases and information sources, with more planning done in spreadsheets than in planning systems

• A blame culture exists where supply chain or operations function attribute failures to other functions as a reason for poor performance