For a firm that we provided assistance in incorporating a Sales & Operations Planning procedure to help manage its supply chain…
Key Business Issues
- High inventory levels
- Lack of a formal management process to agree on out-months inventory, production, and shipment plans
- Supply plans not integrated with the demand plans (i.e product promotions, price increases)
- High incidence of product stock-outs
Services Provided
- Design and implementation of Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process
Solution Components
- Development of S&OP Planning process including planning horizon, unit of measure, timing, responsibility, and data requirement
- Development of an integrated corporate performance measure
- Development and Design of Sales & Operations Planning data
Business Results
- Zero product stock-outs due to planning improvements
- S&OP process implemented and executed monthly
- Deployment to other key businesses on-going