Internal collaboration (S&OP)
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
Most companies create an annual plan. Further plans are based on it and rarely revisited. But let’s face it – changes happen. You know better than anyone else that your business is dynamic. Collaboration manages not only your ever-changing supply chain, but also the supply chains of your partners and customers.
S&OP can create annual plans that are dynamic and easy to change in mid course. Since its start in the 1980s, S&OP has been a vital process for managing profitability and risk. It is a flexible, customisable solution that takes the process from data collection to a dynamic supply chain management plan that drives production and sales. Combining demand planning and S&OP planning into an integrated approach means executives spend less time reacting to problems and more time managing opportunities.
An old adage says A problem recognised is a problem half solved. S&OP gives you real-time visibility into exceptional management situations and empowers your staff to recognise problems early as well as to take the appropriate corresponding action. Internel’s experts can implement S&OP within your organisation – with fast and measurable results.
Key benefits of Internel’s collaboration services:
- Establish volume balance by product families
- Integrate operational plans with financial plans
- Optimise inventory levels
- Establish a common repository of important information necessary for the planning process: sales and production forecast data, inventory planning information, shipments and production – all in a unified view/source
