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 balance the demand side and the supply side as well as possible in order to ensure the required delivery capability while keeping inventories to a minimum and tying up as little capital as possible.
The S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) function in DISKOVER is your central tool for efficiently mapping the S&OP process.
Particularly important here:
The lowest possible workload for all company functions involved.
The five most important
advantages 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 significant advantage by promoting coordination between sales, production and finance. Through integrated planning and collaboration, demand fluctuations are better managed, inventory 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 market-synchronized production. Organization and IT can provide support, but cooperation between all areas of the company is crucial.
We would be happy to show you what else is possible in a personal demo
Let's start together - growth,
efficiency and progress
DISKOVER supports all five steps of the S&OP process from data collection to the executive S&OP meeting.
The S&OP process is repeated regularly (usually monthly) in order to react flexibly to market changes and continuously optimize planning.
S&OP software solutions
Relief for sales, SCM, logistics, purchasing and production with simultaneous
improvement in planning results and faster S&OP processes.
Sales channels and regions
DISKOVER divides physical articles into any number of sales articles, which can be differentiated according to sales channels, key accounts or regions.
Different sales items can have different master data, e.g. sales prices.
A planning workflow ensures that planning stages, e.g. from key account manager to regional manager to director, run consistently and promptly one after the other.
Any viewing level
Sales articles and physical articles can be structured in any hierarchy level and according to any criteria "on the fly".
The adjustment of sales figures can be made at any hierarchy level and is aggregated upwards and disaggregated downwards.
During planning, the hierarchies can be dissolved and reorganized as required.
Complete planning calculation
DISKOVER supports the entire S&OP process, based automatic determination of statistical and AI-supported forecasts as a starting point for S&OP planning to independent MRP capacity planning and material requirements planning.
Frozen planning horizons, during which no adjustments may be made, can be defined.
Delta planning can save the sales department a massive amount of planning effort.
Project and action planning
Projects and promotions can be planned separately from day-to-day business in DISKOVER.
An availability check at the touch of a button shows directly whether the material quantities can be provided on the required dates.
Pridefined promotions and projects to be started can be activated with one click and thus transferred to operational planning in DISKOVER or the ERP system.
Reporting: Money and quantity
Planned values can be displayed as sales in local currency, as sales in group currency or as sales quantity in basic units of measure (units, weight, volume, etc.).
Historical sales take into account historical price changes and future planned price adjustments are taken into account when planning future sales.
Open for all data sources
DISKOVER can automatically transfer data from any source, such as ERP systems and CRM systems and in any format, e.g. databases, spreadsheets, csv or txt files, automatically into the S&OP planning.
Budgeted figures and other data can be exported in various formats or sent automatically.
Plan figures can also be sent to DISKOVER by e-mail and automatically processed .
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 DISPOSITION
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
