The sales and operations planning (S&OP) process is critical to supply chain optimization, but tough to get right. Too often there’s a disconnect between high level aggregate business plans and detailed operation execution plans. ToolsGroup S&OP software provides a single integrated data model to enable collaboration and optimization. With this single version of the truth, you can create a consistent plan from strategic to tactical to operational.
The biggest gap in organizations is often between the sales and operations teams. Utilizing detailed modeling within a single data model can bridge that gap, providing a common language and visibility into tradeoffs to balance decision making based on the best overall outcomes.
Connecting planning to execution helps minimize surprises, expediting, and forecast volatility. With a smooth S&OP process supply chain stakeholders can concentrate on fine-tuning the baseline forecast using their market knowledge and less time fighting fires.
The single integrated data model underlying ToolsGroup S&OP software prevents functional biases from disrupting sales and operational planning. It clearly shows the impact of each decision, so teams can choose outcomes that best align with business goals.
Quickly review any data you need in any way you like, simulating what-if scenarios to see P&L impact.
Each business has unique needs and processes. Unlike other solutions that require you to adopt a specific process that matches their software, our S&OP solution is configured to support your existing business processes.
Our simulation environment lets S&OP teams easily make “on-the-fly” calculations to show the supply chain and P&L impacts for a variety of scenarios such as the impact of price increases, promotions, purchasing requirements, and production plans. Advanced algorithms factor in demand and supply chain uncertainty and simulate the impact of inventory on service levels. S&OP teams can continually create and compare multiple scenarios to reach consensus
Web-based demand and supply collaboration hubs make core optimization and “what-if” modeling accessible to salespeople, dealers, partners, and suppliers. On the demand side, multiple internal and external stakeholders can fine-tune the baseline forecast by applying their market knowledge. Supply-side stakeholders create a single consensus supply plan that can then be fed back to operations for execution. S&OP workflow enables configuration of the entire S&OP process, defining user roles and task rules.
Each stakeholder has their own view of the single data model, with the ability to run different scenarios. That enables marketing to visualize the effects of demand-shaping activities like promotions and price changes, so they can develop campaigns that produce the best results within existing production and supply capacity.