Sales & Operations Planner

S&OP establishes time phased price and gross margin reporting based on sales forecasts developed in Demand Manager or Demand Collaboration Portal. Reports can be based on a multitude of options including: Division, Sales region, Product family, customer channels. S&OP is interactive, and uses the flexible OLAP style "cube" interface. It allows the user to dynamically configure real-time-generated reports by a potentially infinite number of dimensions. Monthly fluctuations in average sales price are incorporated to assess the impact varying prices have on the plan, while average item costs are maintained to track revenue and profits. Views of Product forecasts can be arranged by region, customer and product, and summed up easily at a Product family level. With S&OP, there are no limits on what data you want to see, and how you want it organized in your reports.

Application Updates

  • Using OLAP’s drag and drop interface, create reports and views of your data in any orientation

Enabling Features

  • Forecast, margin, product mix data from RS Demand Manager and Demand Collaboration Portal is automatically loaded
  • Forecast, margin, budget data is automatically consolidated enabling ease of use and maintenance
  • Save user defined views, with field that are defined and added by the user, which allows the addition of new parts on the fly
  • Capability to focus efforts based on product mix and margin contribution
  • Adjust standard selling price by month in order to evaluate sales persons performance by customer/account and product
  • Track and monitor progress as frequently as you want
  • Evaluate and monitor actual sales vs. forecasts

Benefits

  • Complete set of information for better decision making
  • Real-time information
  • Increased productivity, due to less time spent assembling information, reports are easy to create, eliminating duplication, more accurate information
  • Reduce costs with reduced IT
  • Improved operational efficiency - operational resources
  • Enhanced communication - operation
  • Improved profitability - product mix analysis

Product Literature

Sales and Operations Planner (PDF)

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