S&OP / IBP

Align your Sales & Operations Planning and Integrated Business Planning process from End-to-End. Enable teams to collaborate and bring disparate data together to plan future steps including financial, operational and strategic objectives.

We understand your challenges

Your operational & finance targets aren’t aligned

Operational plans aren’t working towards your overall business targets. At the moment, you can’t connect the dots and you need various scenarios.
You are not all singing from the same hymn sheet

There are too many versions of the plan, decisions made in isolation and multiple silos within the business. Planning over relies on the skill, knowledge and judgement of a limited number of your key personnel.
Lack of customer or product prioritisation

Everything is a priority because you can’t see where the real priorities actually lie. This means you can’t prioritise your key customers and products effectively, resulting in poor customer service levels or overspends in delivering a good service level in an inefficient way.
Plans aren’t aligned with customer growth

You can’t see all opportunities and risks in one location, and what this means for your business and investment decisions.
Incorrect inventory

You sometimes produce too much of the wrong stock and not enough of the right stock because your processes are disconnected at some level.
Lack of focus in the right places

You currently spend a disproportionate amount of time focusing on less important products and customers rather than prioritising key accounts.

Collaborative Planning For Better Results

Pre-S&OP: Demand Management

Work together to ensure a quality demand plan

Categorise, aggregate and forecast at any level of the Supply Chain in a flexible model
Combine different forecasts from statistical estimates, to sales accounts, and marketing proposals that shape future demand
Choose from extensive functionality options for complete control of your demand plan.

Pre-S&OP: Supply Planning

Maximise future business opportunities

Translate demand into feasible production, supply and distribution plans
Use what-if scenarios to identify constraints, capacity opportunities, and best alternatives to match demand based on business drivers
Optimise resources across the Supply Chain.

Financial Planning

Integrate S&OP and IBP with strategic objectives

Translate demand and supply plans into a financial plan that you can compare with sales and other budgets
Assess the real trade-offs of each decision with what-if views that consider elements like profit & loss, and the value of projected production, inventory and purchases
Look at strategic ways to add business value, from operations through to CFO level

Executive S&OP and IBP Meetings

Get input from internal and external teams to maximise collaboration

Apply your selected KPIs, metrics and objectives to various scenarios to visualise the impact before selecting the best plan
Analyse the business impact of every decision on things like levels of resource required, production volumes, inventory holding and customer growth plans and service levels
Embed IBP, and allow for cross-functional plan creation thanks to simple sharing, editing and feedback options
Easily coordinate stakeholder access and permissions within one central platform

Post-S&OP

A dynamic, relevant reporting source

Give planners and executives a source of truth from which to make decisions and report to the wider business
Gain clear visibility of performance against KPI frameworks, for a continuous focus on optimal production and inventory, and customer service

Proactive Insights With ML / AI

Save hours on manual analysis

Automatically analyse your past and current data, and get recommended changes to improve your plans
Get notified when key KPIs are at risk so you can take action quickly
Automatically run alternate planning scenarios using educated parameters. Then compare them using clear KPI dashboards

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Case Studies

Van Geloven: An End-to-End Solution

To achieve best practice S&OP, Van Geloven implement sofco’s Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Scheduling and S&OP solutions.

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Trusted by our clients

“Greencore is involved in multiple categories, supplying a diverse range of products with different characteristics that require very different manufacturing processes. We selected sofco as they have an End-to-End planning and execution system that can be configured easily to fit these disparate demands. Our approach is much more sophisticated and collaborative now.”

Chris Chestney

IT Business Partner, Greencore

“What impressed us most about the sofco people was they understood our business, listened, and would bring a lot of experience to the project. They brought solid solutions to the issues we presented them with. It was clear from the outset that we were going to be able to work well together as a team and deliver this project. That is exactly what has happened.”