Solventure NV

For a company that has grown from local family bakery to global supplier of sweet bakery products, the importance of reliable and mature planning has never been greater. Over the past years, Poppies Bakeries has invested heavily in developing a stronger approach to Sales and Operations Planning. With growing demand volatility, fluctuating costs and increasing sustainability expectations, the company needed a more stable and transparent planning process to support its international ambitions.

With over 65 years of expertise, Wolf Oil Corporation is one of the leading manufacturers of cutting-edge lubricants in Europe. With an extensive portfolio of over 560 products, delivering to 127 countries worldwide, the business needed to balance their global supply chain to ensure the utmost quality throughout every manufacturing stage.When a company scales as fast as Wolf Oil Corporation, its supply chain must keep pace. Over the past decade, the Belgian lubricant manufacturer significantly expanded its global footprint with more employees, more regions, more products and more complexity. To support this growth, Wolf Oil needed a smarter and future proof way to plan, balance and steer its end to end supply chain.

For a fresh food company that operates at high speed and with products that have very limited shelf life, planning must be precise, connected and transparent. With three thousand people, rapid growth and products sold in thirty seven countries, What’s Cooking - a European Fresh Savoury Food Group- needed a more reliable and aligned planning system to keep up with rising complexity.

Destrooper Biscuits operates in diverse domains under one unified portfolio. What appears to be a simple product, such as their well known Belgian butter biscuit or “lukke”, actually results in more than one hundred and fifty finished goods. This level of variety creates significant production and supply chain complexity.

Met hun boek ‘Practical guide to sales & operations planning’ willen S&OP-experts Eric Wilson en Imane Sabeh supply chain professionals de kneepjes van het vak bijbrengen. Het boek reikt een praktische roadmap aan voor zowel de implementatie als de optimalisering van het S&OP-proces. Daarbij worden alle aspecten – van mensen over processen tot de technologie – meegenomen. Doordat de secties in het boek zijn ingedeeld op basis van het maturiteitsniveau, krijgen lezers meteen ook een graadmeter voor hun eigen niveau. Value Chain Management had een verhelderend gesprek met Eric Wilson over de rol van S&OP vandaag en hoe het boek daarop inpikt.

De supply chain driehoek – opgebouwd rond service, cost en cash – is uitgegroeid tot een vaste waarde om de mechanismen van de supply chain in kaart te brengen. Bedenker Bram Desmet voegde er onlangs de ecologische en sociale dimensies vanuit het aspect duurzaamheid aan toe.