One of the highlights of this year's MOMENTUM 2011 was guest presenter Charlotte Diener's session entitled "Planning Rhythm."  Diener has created an excellent Slideshare version of this that's available now to anyone who's interested.  You can link to it here, or search for "The Planning Rhythm: Managing Risk Through Marching to the Same Drum" on Slideshare. 

This brief description of Diener's presentation from the conference agenda applies to the revised slides on Slideshare as well: "Just as world-class manufacturing operates to the drum beat of critical equipment, the excellent supply chain operates to a regular rhythm of processes. The use of a process rhythm is critical to the performance of supply chain planning, irrespective of software. This presentation will explore the critical processes necessary in semiconductor planning, their frequency and duration."

Ms. Diener is an independent consultant with extensive supply chain, turn-around, M&A integration and international experience. Ms. Diener has completed several global multi-million dollar M&A integration projects and the re-engineering of several corporate processes, including a complete re-work of both the supply chains and new product development processes at ON Semiconductor.  Her contact information is included on the slides.