Collaborative Planning For Better Results

Pre-S&OP: Demand Management: Work together to ensure a quality demand plan

• Categorise, aggregate and forecast at any level of the Supply Chain in a flexible model
• Combine different forecasts from statistical estimates, to sales accounts, and marketing proposals that shape future demand
• Choose from extensive functionality options for complete control of your demand plan.

Pre-S&OP: Supply Planning: Maximise future business opportunities

• Translate demand into feasible production, supply and distribution plans
• Use what-if scenarios to identify constraints, capacity opportunities, and best alternatives to match demand based on business drivers
• Optimise resources across the Supply Chain.

Financial Planning: Integrate S&OP and IBP with strategic objectives

• Translate demand and supply plans into a financial plan that you can compare with sales and other budgets
• Assess the real trade-offs of each decision with what-if views that consider elements like profit & loss, and the value of projected production, inventory and purchases
• Look at strategic ways to add business value, from operations through to CFO level

Executive S&OP and IBP Meetings: Get input from internal and external teams to maximise collaboration

• Apply your selected KPIs, metrics and objectives to various scenarios to visualise the impact before selecting the best plan
• Analyse the business impact of every decision on things like levels of resource required, production volumes, inventory holding and customer growth plans and service levels
• Embed IBP, and allow for cross-functional plan creation thanks to simple sharing, editing and feedback options
• Easily coordinate stakeholder access and permissions within one central platform

Post-S&OP: A dynamic, relevant reporting source

• Give planners and executives a source of truth from which to make decisions and report to the wider business
• Gain clear visibility of performance against KPI frameworks, for a continuous focus on  optimal production and inventory, and customer service

Proactive Insights With ML / AI: Save hours on manual analysis

• Automatically analyse your past and current data, and get recommended changes to improve your plans
• Get notified when key KPIs are at risk so you can take action quickly
• Automatically run alternate planning scenarios using educated parameters. Then compare them using clear KPI dashboards