Sales
and Operations Planning (S&OP)
Our product, FD6 S&OP, is a complete sales and operations planning solution. FD6 S&OP integrates seamlessly with FD6 Demand Planning and FD6 Inventory Optimization and DRP planning.
FD6 S&OP supports best practices in Sales and Operations Planning, practices that aim to position and time the supply of the right aggregate levels of goods, services, capacities, and financing in accordance with up-to-date demand planning expectations. S&OP is characterized by monthly product family planning reviews and proactive rebalancing
of looming out-of-balance conditions.
S&OP is proactive, efficient management team problem solving. As a company's sales and operations planning
process grows and improves, its managers devote a greater
percentage of their time to managing opportunities and growing the
business instead of firefighting and expediting. S&OP is a management process owned by senior management to run the business. FD6 S&OP provides visibility for clear and sound decisions and is a great IT tool that makes the process effective, efficient, and adaptable.
See the FD6 S&OP Demo!
To appreciate our solution as a whole you need to see the demo. Below are a couple of paragraphs on some areas of functionality that are included in FD6 S&OP, but you need to see the demo to get the whole picture of what we can do for your business in support of a powerful and efficient S&OP management decision-making process.
Integrated Financial Planning
In FD6 S&OP we provide integrated visibility and simulation of the financial ramifications
of decisions and potential decisions during the sales and operations planning process so that
financial and business management are fully involved and influencing decisions. FD6 S&OP has a very comprehensive
and integrated set of formats in this respect.
Capturing events, assessments and assumptions
FD6 S&OP provides for entry, maintenance and assessment of outside economic, competitive, and internal company events so that S&OP expectations and business plans can be duly influenced by qualitative information and judgment. The entry of events can be done manually or via programmatic import. Assessments are typically maintained by the people best suited to gauge the timing, size, duration, and probability of an event's impact on business. Events can also be decisions and their expected consequences. The capture of events, assessments, and assumptions is available at any level of detail. The capture, assessment, and systematic calibration of events comprise a degree of sophistication that is developed over time. Often events, assessments, and assumptions are captured as rationale when business team members adjust forecasts and various plans based on financial goals, company strategy, product introduction and phase-out timing, business judgment, operational constraints, and intelligence about new or lost opportunity.
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