DDS&OP is a bi-directional tactical reconciliation hub in a Demand Driven Adaptive Enterprise (DDAE) Model between the strategic (annual, quarterly and monthly) and operational (hourly, daily and weekly) relevant ranges of decision making. DDS&OP sets key parameters of a Demand Driven Operating Model (DDOM) based on the output of the Adaptive S&OP process (strategic information and requirements). 

DDS&OP also projects the DDOM performance based on the strategic information and requirements and various DDOM parameter settings.  Additionally, DDS&OP uses variance analysis based on past DDOM performance against critical metrics (reliability, stability and velocity) to adapt the key parameters of the DDOM and/or recommend strategic changes to the business.

Despite spending enormous sums on technology and improvement methods, most businesses are under siege. The inability to drive adaptation to an increasingly more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (“VUCA”) set of circumstances has resulted in an unprecedented rate of failure across organizations of all shapes and sizes. Worse yet, the necessary component to break the cycle is being distorted by antiquated models, methods, rules, and tools held over from decades past. The industry is stuck in a rut, and that rut is getting deeper and deeper. Learn how to turn strategy into an operational model that can enable a company to survive and thrive in this VUCA world.