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SEVEN's Spring newsletter published
SEVEN’s Spring newsletter has just been published, containing information on our latest SAP offerings, the Supply Chain Council Regional meetings, and the trilogy of articles on ‘Organisational Greatness’ that have been published in the European Business Review. If you haven't seen the newsletter and would like to have a read then please click here.
Supply Chain Council – UK&I Regional Meetings - 10th & 13th February
You are invited to join us at one of the Supply Chain Council’s UK&I regional meetings to learn about the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR®) model and how to apply Supply Chain Excellence in your organisation. Find out how the SCOR® model can be used to drive competitive advantage, drive down costs, and identify risks to your organisation. Network with fellow professionals, get updates on the Supply Chain industry, and learn how the model has helped organisations streamline and improve their bottom line.
Subjects Covered
Inventory Optimization SCOR® Framework
The SCOR® programme from the Supply Chain Council is a great way to analyse your Supply Chain performance and to benchmark it against companies in similar industries.
Supply Chain Risk Management
Sean Culey CEO of SEVEN has been invited to present at these events and will be talking about Supply Chain Risk Management. Sean’s presentation examines how to develop risk management and supply strategies using SCOR® that are aligned to and support the competitive strategies of the end-to-end Supply Chain.
Fresh Connection: Simulation game
The Fresh Connection Supply Chain simulation game will demonstrate the power of having an aligned strategy and the trade-offs and impacts of decisions taken in the work place.
Dates/Venues
Friday 10th February - Best Western Studley Castle, Castle Road, Studley, Warwickshire, B80 7AJ
Monday 13th February - Burnham Beeches Hotel, Grove Road, Burnham, Buckinghamshire, SL1 8DP
Agenda
0930 - 1000 Coffee
1000 - 1115 SCOR®
1130 - 1230 Supply Chain Risk Management
1230 - 1300 Lunch
1300 - 1530 Fresh Connection
1530 - Close
They will be interactive and fun workshops where you will gain new insight into subjects that matter to you! Car parking is available.
Operationalising Excellence: Making it Happen – Series of Articles in European Business Review
We are very pleased to announce that the third of a trilogy of articles our CEO, Sean Culey, has written on the subject of ‘Operationalising Excellence’ for the highly prestigious European Business Review magazine, has just been published.
This article follows on from the previous two published in August and November. It is Part " of ‘Operationalising Excellence: Making it Happen’ and Sean continues to discuss how the 7 keys, when aligned and integrated together, can be used to stop the rot and drive profitable, people driven performance that moves a company forwards and creates a culture of continued success.
Sean describes two fictitious companies, ‘Chaos Inc’ and ‘Progression plc’, to illustrate how different mindsets, management practices, attitudes to money and different metrics can create or disable progress. Part II shows how Chaos Inc can use the 7 Keys to stop the rot and develop solid foundations for them to succeed moving forwards.
To read Sean’s full article click here or to visit the European Business Review website click here.
Transform your Supply Chain - Complimentary Seminar!
What
you will learn
Using insight on operationalising excellence
from SEVEN’s ‘7 Keys to Unlocking Organisational Greatness’ material; processes,
best practices and metrics from the Supply Chain Council’s SCOR® Model, and an implementation
approach developed from successful real life experiences and the Supply Chain Excellence methodology, this full day seminar will give an overview on
how to:
- Develop a segmented, customer
Value Chain approach in your organisation
- Identify the correct
competitive strategies for each Value Chain
- Determine the best measures for
each Value Chain in order to maximise service and optimise cost to serve
- Create integrated and empowered
‘customer value teams’ with finance at the heart
- Identify and address Supply Chain issues, improve processes
and root out inefficiencies
- Use technology and data to increase visibility and improve planning across the end-to-end Value Chain
- Understand the impact organisational culture has on supply chain success or failure
Get 2012 off to a
GREAT START!
Ensure your business
gets off to the best start possible in 2012 by learning how the leading
organisations in the world are segmenting their business to get phenomenal
results. This could be the most valuable day you spend all year.
Complementary lunch
and refreshments are provided.
We
hope to see you there!
To book, call Sharon on
0800 298 7293 or 07814 009 465 or email About the main presenter:
Sean Culey, our CEO and member of the European Leadership Team of the Supply Chain Council, is a regular speaker at leading events such as the Harvard Business Review and Supply Chain World conferences on the topics of Supply Chain excellence and risk management, and developing high trust cultures and high performing teams. He has also had articles published in magazines such as the ‘Director of Finance’ and ‘Chief Executive Officer’ as well as being signed up to write a series of four articles on how to develop ‘Organisational Greatness’ for the ‘European Business Review’. He is currently finalising a book on ‘Operationalising Excellence’, due to be published in 2012.
Christmas Offer - 33% off our premium Supply Chain training course!
Get ready to transform your Supply Chains in 2012 -
join us for 3 days of thought-provoking, practical, leading education on
how to ‘Develop Effective Customer-Focused Value Chains using SCOR®
When:
Monday 19th - Wednesday 21st December, 09:30 - 17:00
Where: Marston House, 5 Elmdon Lane, Marston Green, Solihull, B37 7DL
What you will learn
This 3 day training course will combine the Supply Chain Council's SCOR® Model, the Supply Chain Excellence methodology, our own ‘7 Keys to Unlocking Organisational Greatness’ approach and elements from Lean/Six Sigma.
The following elements will be covered during these 3 days:
- Current challenges facing 21st
Century Supply Chains - perfect storm or new norm?
- Overview of the Supply Chain
Council and the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR®) model
- A review of SCOR® processes,
metrics, best practices and SCOR® people
- The benefits of SCORsup>® using
case studies
- Moving from a reactive,
short-term focus to end-to-end Supply Chain planning and control
- The 7 keys: aligning strategy
to execution and integrating the end-to-end Supply Chain
- Discovering your current and
future Supply Chains
- Understand how you compete, and
analyse your Supply Chain's performance
- Map your current Supply Chains
- identify risks, disconnects and impact on competitive drivers
- Creating end-to-end segmented
Value Chains
- Developing a plan for
implementation and a roadmap for value
- SCOR® implementation case studies and learnings
Get 2012 off to a GREAT START!
Ensure your business gets off to the best start possible in 2012 by learning how the leading organisations in the world are segmenting their business to get phenomenal results. This could be the most valuable 3 days you spend this year.
Click here to register for the programme and take advantage of our special Christmas offer of only £999 +VAT for the full 3 day training package.
TODAY! Speaking at Harvard Business Review
Sean Culey, CEO of SEVEN is speaking today at Harvard Business Review – Supply Chain Risk Conference – Warsaw, Poland on the 29 November about Supply Chain Risk management.
SEVEN welcome this kind of speaking opportunity as they have enormous experience in the area. Risk in Supply Chains is not only a momentary interruption in the supply - problems can affect the fate of your business!
Operationalising Excellence: Making it Happen – Part 1
We are very pleased to announce that the second of a trilogy of articles
our CEO, Sean Culey, has written on the subject of ‘Operationalising
Excellence’ for the highly prestigious European Business Review magazine, has
just been published.
This article follows on from the previous one published in August, which was titled ‘The 7 Keys to Unlocking Organisational Greatness’. In this initial article Sean identified SEVEN key elements of business that need to be aligned and integrated in order to create a foundation for success.
In the new article, titled, ‘Operationalising Excellence: Making it Happen – Part 1’, Sean sets the scene for how the 7 keys, when aligned and integrated together, can be used to stop the rot and drive profitable, people driven, performance that moves a company forwards and creates a culture of continued success.
In this new 2 part article, Sean describes two fictitious companies, ‘Chaos Inc’ and ‘Progression plc’, to illustrate how different mindsets, management practices, attitudes to money and different metrics can create or disable progress. This sets the scene for part II, the final article in the trilogy, which will show how Chaos Inc can use the 7 Keys to stop the rot and develop solid foundations for them to succeed moving forwards.
To read Sean’s full article click here or to visit the European Business Review website click here.
SEVEN speaking at SAP User Group Conference
Our CEO, Sean Culey, is speaking Tuesday 22 November at the 2011 UK & Ireland SAP User Group Conference today in Birmingham. More than 500 customers are expected at the UK's premier SAP & SAP Business Objects User Event.
The subject of Sean's talk is ‘Taking a Strategic Approach to Supply Chain Risk Management – Aligning Supplier and Customer Strategies’.
New Partnership – British Outback Adventures and Events
SEVEN have recently joined
forces with Britain’s leading corporate team building event and group activity
producer, British Outback in order to be able to provide a unique combined
offering. With this partnership we are able to provide to corporate
team building and focus days that include a mix of activity based events and
team building exercises, and also leadership, team effectiveness, and value and
vision building. We have the joint ability to create a truly
personalised, energetic and results driven day, dependant on your needs.
This partnership has immediately created excitement and we have already completed a number of successful joint events, with great feedback from the participating organisations and participants, and have a number of new events planned in the forthcoming weeks.
If you are planning a team
building, leadership or ‘focus’ day and want to do something that combines
activity based events such as ‘The Apprentice’ type activities or outdoor
events with group ‘classroom’ elements such as analysing corporate strategies
or leadership styles, and increasing personal and team effectiveness, then
contact SEVEN or British Outback direct.
Complimentary Educational Seminar
We are pleased to announce that we will be running two FREE 2.5 hour educational seminars on the subject of how to ‘Transform your Supply Chain into Customer Focused Value Chains. This material is the result of years of analysis and development, which SEVEN have recently launched as a new programme called ‘Rapid Value Chain Development’. When: Friday 25th November
Time: 9.30am-12pm OR 1pm-3.30pm
Where: Maple House, 150 Corporation Street, Birmingham, B4 6TB
To book, please call Sharon Burton on +44 (0) 800 298 7293 or email .
Warsaw Speaking Engagement
Sean Culey, CEO of SEVEN is delighted to have been invited to speak at Harvard Business Review – Supply Chain Risk Conference –
Warsaw, Poland on the 29 November about Supply Chain Risk management. SEVEN welcome this kind of speaking opportunity as they have enormous experience in the area. Risk in Supply Chains is not only a momentary interruption in the supply - problems can affect the fate of your business!
SAP User Group Conference
SEVEN are pleased to announce that their CEO, Sean Culey, will be presenting at the UK&I SAP User Group Conference held at the Birmingham Metropole Hotel on Tuesday 22nd November 2011.Sean, who is a member of the Supply Chain European Leadership Team, will be delivering a presentation on ‘Taking a Strategic Approach to Supply Chain Risk Management – Aligning Supplier and Customer Strategies’
We hope that you can join Sean at this event, however if you are unable to attend and would like more information on Sean’s presentation please contact us.
Sean will give an update on his experiences at the event on his blog, after the 23rd.
Director of Finance Magazine Article
Sean Culey, CEO at SEVEN, has recently had an article published in the ‘Director of Finance’ Magazine called: ‘Ensuring ROI from ERP – The ‘Big R, Little i’ Challenge’, where he discusses how some companies resent paying the significant and ever increasing maintenance costs for an SAP system that they feel they gain little value from. As Sean puts it in the article; ‘In the ROI calculation, if you don’t deliver a return - ‘R’ - then the investment - ‘I’ - simply becomes a C – ‘cost’.Achieving a high return on corporate investment in business transformation initiatives, especially those involving technology, is difficult for many organisations. Many companies are questioning the value they are achieving from their increasing spend on IT systems, especially SAP.
However, some companies are leveraging great value from their investment, and Sean investigates why this gulf exists, and what to do in order to ensure your company gets the most value possible from this investment.
To read Sean’s full article click HERE.
Blenheim Palace 10K
Sharon and Rachel donned their SEVEN T-shirts and had a run out in the Blenheim Palace 10K last weekend. They were running on behalf of Polio Plus and were really pleased that the weather was kind! Although their times weren't world beating, they had a great day out!
Sign up to SEVEN's new Blog!
SEVEN are proud to announce the official launch of ‘SEVENBlog’, our new blog site.
Our regular blogs will feature commentary and thought leadership on a wide range of business issues, ranging from leadership, developing customer focused Supply Chain strategies and developing the right culture, through to specifics such as SAP tools and techniques. To sign up to the Blog click here.
‘The 7 Keys to Unlocking Organisational Greatness’ published in the European Business Review
Are you… faced with challenges of getting your team all pointing in the right direction, working to the same agenda, providing excellent service to your customers and effectively executing your goals?
Since our last newsletter in June, Sean Culey, CEO at SEVEN has been busy writing an article for the European Business Review on this subject. In the article Sean talks about ‘The curse of the 4 M’s’ – Mindset, Money, Management and Metrics. He discusses how the way the people in your organisation approach and think about these four elements can prevent the achievement of goals, and discusses how to address these through developing ‘The 7 Keys to Unlocking Organisational Greatness’. SEVEN has taken this material and specifically developed training courses, materials, tools and techniques designed to aid businesses through these challenges, and to effectively mobilise the collective talents of your team and unleash the capability of your supporting systems to create superior business performance.
To view the article on the European Business Review website, please go to: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=4223
Look out for Sean’s next article on ‘Ensuring ROI from ERP – The ‘Big R, Little i’ Challenge’ due to be published in the ‘Director of Finance’ magazine in September.
Join SEVEN on 23rd – 25th October Amsterdam Supply Chain World Europe
Sean is also a member of the Supply Chain Council European Leadership Team, and will be speaking at the Supply Chain World 2011 conference in Amsterdam on 23-25 October. He will be discussing the ‘7 Keys’, and discussing the internal and external challenges facing organisations as they adapt to the business realities of the 21st century. Sean will describe the seven foundational elements that need to be in place in order for change programmes to succeed and organisational and supply chain greatness to be developed.
Also speaking at the conference is Kevin Vaughan-Smith, President and General Manager of FranklinCovey United Kingdom. SEVEN are Partners with FranklinCovey, and accredited trainers of their Signature Programme ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ and also the world leading program on developing personal, team and organisational trust, called ‘Leading at the Speed of Trust’. Kevin will be discussing how to build effective, rapid, high trust Supply Chain collaborations and will present the concept that trust has a currency of its own that holds tangible economic value, and how businesses can move more quickly and at lower cost if a high trust environment exists. If you would like to know more information about the event please click: http://www.supplychainworld.org/europe.
Supply Chain Council GB&I Regional Events - July
If you want to know more about the Supply Chain Council, Supply Chain Excellence, SCOR® metrics and partake in a SCOR® benchmarking workshop, join us at the next GB&I SCC Regional Meetings at Nailcote Hall in Berkswell, near the NEC on the 21st July, or in Reading on the 22nd July.
Find out how the SCOR® model can be used to add value to your organisation, network with fellow colleagues, get updates on the supply chain industry, and learn how the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR®) model has helped organisations streamline and improve their bottom line. There is also a two hour taster session on 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective people' after lunch. All are welcome. Visit our Training & Events page to find out more.
IITT Seal of approval
SEVEN is pleased to announce that it has been audited by the Institute of IT Training (IITT) and following this process has been awarded IITT Accreditation as a provider of IT and business education. The accreditation provides independent recognition that SEVEN provides the highest quality training and IITT Accreditation is recognised a leading quality standard in the IT training industry. Want to find out about SEVEN’s other accreditations? Read More…
SEVENth Heaven
Sean Culey, CEO of SEVEN discusses the huge potential value that enterprise resource planning (ERP) can bring to a business how to create strategic alignment and process integration, the value of SCOR® and how to unleash the untapped potential of an engaging workforce. Click here to read Sean’s special report published in CEO magazine.
Look out for further articles from Sean in the Director of Finance magazine August/September edition and the European Business Review July/August edition.
SEVEN partner with Franklin Covey
SEVEN have recently begun working in partnership with the world famous FranklinCovey organisation and are now accredited to deliver the life changing ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People®’ signature programme and Leading at the Speed of Trust®.
SEVEN is delighted to offer complementary 2-hour taster sessions that provide you with an opportunity to evaluate these life changing experiences. Sessions are already planned at SEVEN’s offices in Solihull with a few places still available.
Alternatively, if there is a group of people in your organisation or area that want to take part, we can fix new dates around you and even travel to your work location.
If you are interested in attending either a taster session or the full programmes please contact Ian Bennett or Sharon Burton at or
SEVEN to sponsor of the 13th European Supply Chain and Logistics confe
SEVEN is pleased to announce that it will be once again sponsoring the 13th Annual European Supply Chain and Logistics Summit held at the Maritim Hotel in Berlin, Germany. The event is focused on delivering world-class information to its attendees and will explore the latest tools and strategies available to help improve your current processes and safeguard the future. We hope that you get the opportunity to attend this event and please come and see SEVEN at our stand. You may be the lucky winner of one of our iPod touches or bottles of champagne!