D. Codye Satterwhite
D. Codye Satterwhite is a supply chain and operations management practitioner with more than two decades of experience designing, optimizing, and executing the planning processes that power complex global businesses. He currently serves as a Partner at Highspring, a management advisory firm specializing in supply chain transformation, where he helps organizations move smarter, plan better, and grow faster while navigating uncertainty with discipline and control.
Codye's work centers on Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) — the monthly cadence of reviews that turns a company's commercial, operational, and financial plans into one set of numbers everyone can act on. He has helped organizations build these processes from scratch, rescue ones that lost their way, and mature them into genuine decision-making disciplines rather than status meetings. That practitioner's perspective is the foundation of both of his books.
He believes S&OP and IBP are not software categories or template exercises — they're management disciplines that succeed or fail based on people, governance, and whether meetings produce decisions instead of updates.