Nerve Center — Audiobook

Your company doesn't lack a plan. It has four.

Sales has a forecast. Finance has the budget the Board approved. The plants are building the master schedule, and purchasing is buying against its own plan. Each was made in good faith, in a different room, and none of them says what it assumed. The first time they have to agree is on the shipping dock, where a good customer gets shorted or a warehouse fills with stock nobody ordered.

In Nerve Center, Bill Canady, bestselling author of The 80/20 CEO, shows chief executives how to run SIOP (sales, inventory and operations planning), the monthly cycle that replaces those plans with one: eighteen months in units and dollars, carried to the gross margin line, decided once with the CEO in the chair. Freeze the numbers and tie them to the ledger. Test demand at the constraint. Price every option. Walk each month's plan to the next, and write every decision down with an owner, a date and a dollar value.

One invented company, Riverton Industrial Products, runs its first three cycles in the open, every number reconciled. The companion to The 80/20 Institute's PGOS SIOP Masterclass, with a separate Field Guide of thirty-nine worksheets.

Audiobook edition

Narrated using a digital replica of Bill Canady’s voice. Delivered by email through BookFunnel for listening in the BookFunnel app or downloading the audio files.

Includes a separate 57-page visual companion with all 24 figures, the Put It to Work pages, five populated reference tables, the glossary and source notes. The complete fillable Field Guide with 39 worksheets is sold separately.

Digital audiobook. No physical item will be shipped. All sales are final.

Unabridged runtime: 6 hours, 34 minutes, 34 seconds.