How to successfully address the industry’s challenges and avoid pitfalls

The metals industry has been showing increasing interest in S&OP in recent years. The reasons are clear: working capital is under permanent high pressure, raw material availability and prices are more volatile than ever due to global events such as Covid and conflicts of various kinds, and customers are becoming more demanding.

In this OMP e-book, we outline the principles of deploying S&OP in the metals industry and offer our best recommendations for running a more effective S&OP process, based on lessons learned in recent projects.