Sales and Operations Planning

We can support you to implement effective S&OP processes.

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a business process that helps companies to integrate demand and supply planning, inventory planning, new product development and strategic initiatives to maximise business performance. A key objective of S&OP is to ensure that every functional department achieves continual focus and is supportive of the company’s business goals.

Do you need a process to help your organisation to:

Deliver better customer service?
Reduce inventories?
Shorten customer lead times?
Stabilise production rates?
Give top management a real handle on the business and?
Build real teamwork between sales, operations, finance and product development?

The answer may be to strengthen your Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes.

S&OP is a set of decision-making processes, which if completed well can enable effective supply chain management.

S&OP delivers value in the manufacturing and service industries. It is particularly relevant when decisions, investments and commitments must be made in advance to put the organisation into a position where it can deliver excellent service to customers. These decisions may be to buy raw materials, plan production buy or make inventory or to assign people, equipment or other resources.

We have have supported many organisations, ranging from multi-nationals to medium-sized manufacturers and service companies, to implement effective S&OP processes.

Our support includes:

Developing the processes for forecasting demand, planning operations, managing inventory, developing new products
Achieving effective balance between competing demands
Structuring the product families and other data to ensure that the S&OP processes are practical and effective
Developing any planning and reporting tools needed to supplement the capabilities of the base ERP or other IT systems
Coaching people across the organisation to make effective use of the processes systems and tools

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