Kinaxis Event Alert: Sales & Operations Planning Innovation Summit 2013

OTTAWA, Canada, Jan. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Kinaxis®, the provider of RapidResponse®, a robust enterprise cloud service for supply chain management (SCM) and sales and operations planning (S&OP), today announced that Trevor Miles , will present at the Sales & Operations Planning Innovation Summit, which takes place January 31 – February 1, 2013 at the Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas.

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Event Details:

The S&OP Innovation Summit will focus on the solutions offered by innovative supply chain planning and business forecasting. It will comprise of learning objectives, illustrated with a number of case studies, to include:

• Strategies to engage senior leadership in the S&OP process, as well as methods to facilitate this
• Using the S&OP process as the vehicle to drive accountability for results
• Learn how to optimize the role of sales and operations planning in your company
• Operations, supply chain and forecasting - an approach to a repeatable S&OP cycle
• The relationship between integrated business planning and S&OP

Kinaxis will be exhibiting at the event in Booth #1.

Trevor will serve as the conference chairperson for Day 2 of the event, February 1, 2013. As the chairperson, he will introduce each speaker, lead the Q&A after each session, and comment on key highlights discussed. Trevor will present the session "Is an Operations Control Tower the Next Phase of S&OP/IBP?" on Friday, February 1st at 10:00 am.

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For more information on the Sales & Operations Planning Innovation Summit, click here. 

About Kinaxis

Kinaxis delivers a cloud-based solution at the heart of planning and response management for value chain operations. Large manufacturing companies with complex supply chain networks and volatile business environments rely on RapidResponse for collaborative planning, continuous performance monitoring, and coordinated response to plan variances across multiple areas of the business. With RapidResponse, enterprises are able to attain a control tower solution that encompasses a full spectrum of supply chain related business processes, including such functions as: S&OP, supply and capacity planning, demand planning, and supplier collaboration. As a result, Kinaxis customers have replaced disparate planning and performance management tools and are realizing significant operations performance breakthroughs. From a single product, customers are able to make both long-term and real-time demand and supply balancing decisions quickly, collaboratively, and in line with the shared business objectives of multiple stakeholders.

Contact:
Melissa Clow
613.592.5780

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