Supply chain

Drive your S&OP by integrating strategy, sales, operations, and finance

Conduct Sales & Operations Planning with ease in a unified and collaborative platform

Balance demand with supply, integrate operational planning with financial planning, and link high-level strategic plans with day-to-day operations to support the achievement of value creation targets.

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Sales & Operations Planning Image 1 — A full interactive representation of the S&OP process built in Board.

Achieve speed and accuracy in Sales & Operations Planning activities

Benefit from intelligent Sales & Operations Planning software embedded within an Extended Planning & Analysis (xP&A) approach.

Sales & Operations Planning Image 2 — An overview dashboard for the Sales and Operations planning process built in Board

Drive value creation within an Integrated Business Planning approach
Deploy projections of sales and operations variables which feed financial planning on a short-mid-long-term horizon with an integrated business planning approach that highlights value creation paths
Effectively manage re-planning cycles
Accomplish re-planning cycles based on changes from the previously agreed sales and operations plans
Connect processes across the organization
Enable the connection of all processes from sales to operations, guaranteeing a coherent and integrated approach across the organization
Easily balance demand and supply
Align sales and demand planning with procurement, production, and inventory planning and solve discrepancies with ease

Synchronize sales and demand planning with material planning, allocation, and capacity planning across the supply chain
Ensure materials are available for production and products are available for delivery to customers, taking into consideration customer demand volatility and constraints conveyed by internal capacity within a consistent planning environment
Gain a single version of truth
Automatically aggregate data coming from all the processes within sales, supply chain, and finance, gaining a complete, single version of the truth
Accomplish business efficiency and improvement
Increase customer satisfaction, improve purchasing cost rationalization, reduce lead times, increase inventory rotation, and prevent plant saturation
Benefit from inbuilt BI capabilities
Generate any type of report, leveraging native business intelligence capabilities within a self-service environment

Sales & Operations Planning Image 3 — Scenario comparison screen to select the most suitable plan for approval.

Standardized sales planning closely aligned with the supply chain

Our goals were ambitious, but we achieved them. Finally we have a controlling and planning system that business users look after and enhance independently, quickly, and flexibly without having to bother our colleagues in IT. Displays and calculations that were previously unable to be realized with the SAP tools are now standard for us today with Board.