Sales & Operations Planning
Take charge of your planning process and achieve cross-functional alignment
When potential risks, opportunities, or threats change your supply chain plan, you must act quickly and decisively to get back on track. Sales and operations planning (S&OP) gives you a cross-functional approach to integrated business planning that seamlessly incorporates all moving parts across your supply chain. Develop actionable revenue, cost and margin targets and unite your entire supply chain around achieving them.
Up to
5%
Improved Margin
Up to
40%
Reduced Inventory
Up to
15%
Reduced Reporting Time
Sales & Operations Planning
Build an operating plan that is approved by executives and has buy-in from every department by implementing a consensus-driven S&OP process that helps reconcile different perspectives.
Bridge conventional time and organizational silos to close gaps between demand and supply planning.
Support distinct enterprise processes and associated scenario planning with a closed-loop process.
Create demand scenarios to quickly analyze supply chain constraints and contending demands.
Gain an integrated business view of demand, supply, financial and NPI data, by constructing a configurable product hierarchy and attributes schemata.
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Mature S&OP process
Continuously improve S&OP processes by moving toward an advanced Integrated Business Planning (IBP) paradigm.
Optimized decision making
Develop a digital twin capable of taking real-time inputs to run scenarios that accurately mirror the performance of the network for more accurate decision making.
Improved business alignment
Cascade S&OP/IBP outputs across the supply chain to ensure strategic alignment and outcome-oriented decision making.
Strategic conformance to business plan
Implement systems that drive long term alignment to strategic goals.
Profitable decision making
Respond pro-actively, capitalize on opportunities, and manage disruptions in line with business goals.
Financial plan support
Ensure planning and re-alignment drive toward revenue and margin targets while optimizing free cash flow.
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