Operations
Planning
optimal sales and
production planning
in your company?
Agile and Innovative S&OP Software
Capacities are tight, suppliers are unable to deliver, market demand is often erratic, delivery call-offs from customers are incomplete, the number of risks in the supply chain is high!
In such a situation, it is important to harmonize the demand side and the supply side as well as possible in order to ensure the required delivery capability while keeping inventories as low as possible and tying up as little capital as possible.
The S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) feature in DISKOVER is your key tool for efficiently mapping out the S&OP process. What’s particularly important here is:
The lowest possible workload for all company functions involved.
The Five Most Important
Benefits of S&OP
- Better forecast accuracy
- Improved collaboration and communication between all departments
- Increased responsiveness and flexibility
- Optimized inventory management
- Increased customer satisfaction
What makes the difference at
Sales & Operations Planning?
“S&OP offers companies an enormous advantage as it promotes coordination between sales, production and finance. Through integrated planning and collaboration, fluctuations in demand are better managed, stock levels are optimized and the supply chain is made more efficient. This leads to improved customer satisfaction, reduced costs and increased competitiveness.”
Silvia Frankenne
Director Marketing & Sales
Why is Sales and Operations
Planning so important today?
An efficient S&OP process is essential for production that is in sync with the market. Organizational and IT can provide support, but collaboration across all departments is crucial.
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The five-step iterative process of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP).
The S&OP process is repeated regularly (usually monthly) to respond flexibly to market changes and continuously optimize planning.
S&OP software solutions
Reduces the workload on sales, SCM, logistics, procurement, and production while simultaneously
improving planning results and accelerating S&OP processes.
Sales channels and regions
DISKOVER breaks down physical items into any number of sales items,
which can be differentiated by sales channels, key accounts, or regions
.
Different sales items can have different
master data, such as sales prices.
A planning workflow ensures that planning stages—such as
from the key account manager through the regional manager to the director,
—proceed consistently and in a timely manner, one after the other.
Any viewing level
Sales articles and physical items can be in any
Hierarchical levels and according to any criteria "on the fly"
be structured.
Sales figures can be adjusted on any
Hierarchy level is taken and will be moved upwards
aggregated and disaggregated downwards.
During the planning phase, hierarchies can be dissolved and
can be created anew at will.
Complete planning calculation
DISKOVER supports the entire S&OP process, from
the automatic generation of statistical and AI-based
forecasts as initial values for S&OP planning, through
an independent MRP calculation, to capacity plan values
and plan values for material requirements.
Frozen planning horizons, in which no adjustments
may be made, can be defined.
Using delta planning, the sales department can significantly
reduce planning effort.
Project and action planning
Projects, capital projects, and promotions can be planned in DISKOVER
separately from day-to-day operations.
An availability check at the click of a button immediately shows whether
the material quantities can be made available
by the required dates.
Prepared actions and projects to be launched can be activated with
a single click and thus transferred to operational scheduling in
DISKOVER or to the ERP system.
Reporting: Money and quantity
Planned values can be displayed as revenue in local currency, as revenue in
the group currency, or as sales volume in base units
(units, weight, volume, etc.).
Historical sales take historical price changes
into account, and future planned price adjustments
are factored into the planning of future sales.
Open for all data sources
DISKOVER can automatically import data from any source—such as ERP systems
and CRM systems—and in any format, e.g., databases, spreadsheets, CSV or TXT files, into the S&OP planning process at
.
Forecast figures and other data can be exported in various
formats or sent automatically.
Forecast figures can also be sent to DISKOVER via email and
processed automatically.
Agile Sales and Operations Planning offers:
- More transparency in purchasing, logistics, sales and marketing
- Optimal data evaluation
- Planning options
- High planning flexibility
What our customers say:
"For us as a DIY supplier, high delivery readiness is the be-all and end-all. Thanks to DISKOVER, we are still able to keep our stocks low. The Sales & Operations Planning functions help our sales department to create its demand forecast efficiently and conveniently and DISKOVER's capacity scheduling shows us capacity bottlenecks in good time. DISKOVER is exactly the right addition to the SAP system."
JOSÉ GARCIA
HEAD OF SCHEDULING
GUST. ALBERTS. GMBH & CO. KG
"When we introduced DISKOVER, we initially only tested individual article groups to see whether the forecasts met our needs. After a few weeks, however, it quickly became clear that the results were excellent. We then planned all articles with the new tool in one go. The introductory phase, during which there are naturally also doubts as to whether everything is correct, was therefore quickly overcome."
DIETMAR HENKLER
HEAD OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
SEEPEX GMBH
