Planning took center stage at the Best of the Best S&OP conference in June 2017. Pamela Lindsey, director of global supply chain operations for Ciena, talked about the job of linking supply, demand and revenue. Pete Alle, VP of supply chain for Oberweis Dairy, said, “We need to speak the language of the business and use metrics that are relevant to the people running the business.” And Jason Breault, a business recruiter with LifeWork Search, who specializes in the supply chain planning space, said, “There is a huge disparity between what skills companies want to hire versus what students are studying.”
