S&OP / IBP

You need to synchronize the physical and digital supply chain with corporate goals and objectives to:

Improve profit margins
Enhance business process alignment
Boost your return on assets
Reduce supply chain risk

Insufficient forecast accuracy - Erratic customer behavior results in poor decisions without the synchronization of processes, systems and people
Seasonality and demand spikes - Overlooking seasonal inventory requirements or new trends results in stock outs and a fall off in sales, leading to poor customer service
Organizational silos - Companies often struggle to connect their strategic vision with practical planning, leading to conflicting goals, biased assumptions and a disjointed approach
Disparate information - Your supply chain, operations and finance information, along with trading partner information, resides in multiple transaction systems making it difficult to make the best decisions for your organization and align common business goals

Capabilities

Decision support

QAD Digital Supply Chain Planning (QAD DSCP) provides optimal decision support for S&OP and IBP stakeholders including scorecards and dashboards providing business performance insights across the enterprise.

Process controls

You gain the ability to generate a set of repeatable and auditable tasks for each S&OP and IBP planning cycle to ensure the process is consistently executed irrespective of external events.

Cross-functional collaboration

The solution facilitates clear and formal collaboration and cross-functional communication across your business. It ensures that your company-wide vision is shared by all business stakeholders.

Scenario management

Your organization can model alternate initiatives to re-align the plan in support of your corporate objectives. The impact of every plan change can be measured in terms of adherence to your corporate goals.

QAD helps companies adopt and use S&OP/IBP by facilitating better communication and planning across the company and with partners. Your S&OP/IBP approach is simplified by offering the following key capabilities:

QAD DSCP provides management with optimal decision support for the entire supply chain. Scorecards and dashboards provide “at a glance” information about business performance across the enterprise.

The solution is engineered to support finance stakeholders which is evident by the support for:

Financial KPIs, such as ROCE, EBITDA and EPS
Planned income statement reports for trading expenses and revenue
Planned balance sheet “impact” including cash, payables and receivables
Capital planning and budgeting

Task management provides your organization the ability to generate a set of repeatable and auditable tasks for each S&OP/IBP planning cycle. This ensures the process gets executed exactly the same way every planning cycle irrespective of external events.

A common planning horizon that transcends fiscal years can be defined while still providing fiscal year based metrics, alerts and dashboards. A unique feature is the ability to plan over an extended planning horizon (usually 18 months) while also providing a fiscal year view to the finance stakeholders.

You can facilitate clear and formal collaboration and cross-functional communication across your business. The solution ensures a company-wide vision shared by all business stakeholders. Collaboration techniques provide a social capability to comment, and share details of the plans or raise risks, tasks, assumptions and issues for stakeholder follow-up.

Demand data is synchronized with demand planning and supply data including Production Planning, Distribution Planning and Procurement Planning solutions. All three solutions share a common data model which reduces the need for integration, double entry, or additional master data ownership, and ultimately reducing the cost of ownership.

The solution provides a “closed-loop” with operational plans and financial objectives to align in two directions; firstly with executive goals and secondly with operations to ensure the decisions are put into motion.

The solution provides a unique capability to reconcile S&OP/IBP decisions with the operational demand and supply plans.

Plan for the Risk. The best way to measure the impact of your risk is to model it. What if there is a cost increase from a trading country imposing trading tariffs? What if there is a short term supply constraint due to a natural disaster? QAD provides a comprehensive end-to-end scenario management process to model different scenarios, and uses balanced scorecards to identify that plan that best deals with a given situation.

Achieve the Desired Outcome. Not every intention turns out the way it was intended. Scenario management provides the ability to try alternate initiatives to re-align the plan with the corporate objectives. The impact of every plan change can be measured in terms of adherence to corporate objectives. The alternate what-if scenarios are crucial input into the pre-S&OP/IBP meeting for stakeholder consideration.

The specialist in animal nutrition boosts customer service levels and reduces inventory with improved sales forecast accuracy.

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The leader in the automotive market achieved greater reliability in forecasts, cost savings and improved collaboration with QAD Demand Planning, Distribution Planning and Production Planning.

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The market leader for home care and hand protection products improves visibility and control of its global supply chain with QAD Demand Planning, Distribution Planning and Production Planning.

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The goal of a S&OP process is clearly to decide. We have our forecasts, we check our capacity, and we need to be all together, sales, finance, management, to decide.

Benoit Barre - Quick Connectors Network Coordinator, ARaymond