Sales & Operations Planning - Best Practices: Lessons Learned from Worldwide Companies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781412082105)

Since 1977 John has helped manufacturers and distributors to improve their management controls and productivity levels, through hands-on consulting and company-focused education sessions on: logistics, supply chain management, ERP and manufacturing resource planning (MRPII); S&OP; sales planning, forecasting and demand management; distribution resource planning (DRP); and master production scheduling (MPS).

John has guided companies to successful improvements in their processes and systems through a process management approach. Many of them have reached the coveted "Class A" or "World Class" level of achievement. His experience spans the electronics, consumer goods, food, medical products, capital goods, construction equipment, pharmaceutical and chemical industries.

John was a co-founder of Partners for Excellence in 1991. For nine years he was a Principal of The Oliver Wight Associates. For five years he provided and managed consulting for two major software vendors. Prior to that, the positions he held included: MRPII Project Manager, Materials Manager, Production and Inventory Control Manager and Corporate Planner/Master Scheduler.

John holds an MBA (Summa Cum Laude) from the Rochester (NY) Institute of Technology and a BS in Business Management from the University of Dayton (OH).

John is certified at the fellow level (CFPIM) by the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS). He is a frequent speaker at international, regional and chapter meetings of many professional and industrial groups and has published numerous papers and articles concerning Management Improvement and Control. He was co-editor of the Sixth Edition of the APICS Dictionary, and a six-year member of the Master Planning Committee of the APICS Curricula and Certification Council.