Agile S&OP Software to accurately balance supply and demand | ORSOFT Enterprise Workbench
ORSOFT Enterprise Workbench | Objectives of the S&OP software solution:
Creating transparency: focus on the big picture
Avoiding siloed information: consistently aligning department along corporate objectives
Customers, suppliers & KPIs: the entire workflow at a glance
Meet customer needs while taking the overall business strategy and bottleneck planning, and aligning them to your key performance indicators
Agile management: better than reacting ad-hoc
Always stay focused on the entire planning process, run through simulations, plan scenarios and make smart decisions
High profitability: very general and with volatile markets in particular
A coherent and balanced plan stands for customer service, lowers inventory, reduces waste and helps align decisions with financial goals
Continuous controlling: feedback loops as a plan/actual comparison
The S&OP process enables the routine and systematic reporting and measurement of actual performance against plan
The result counts: a feasible consensus/master plan
A management-driven consensus/master plan that is based on demand and supply planning for rolling transfer to the detailed planning/advanced planning & scheduling process.
Agile S&OP software for sales and operations planning
- Modern software-based Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) with the ORSOFT Enterprise Workbench (EWB) allows ad-hoc planning – executable at any time. The software delivers planning results within shortest latencies. This enables completely new interactive, simulation-based planning and machine learning (ML) and AI-driven decision-making processes.
- In addition to ad-hoc planning, the ORSOFT Enterprise Workbench enables autonomous alarm-based planning, following the rules of supply chain control towers. This allows autonomous planning of happy-flow processes. Only planning situations outside the defined restrictions are transferred to the planner.
Thanks to its agile approach, S&OP meetings can now take place on a valid data basis, even without firmly defined S&OP cycles. This allows a real-time monitoring of all changes and their effects on on-time delivery, value creation and budget at different hierarchical levels.
Smart management along the planning instances
Design your S&OP processes with the ORSOFT Enterprise Workbench (EWB):
- Creating transparency along the entire supply chain process through cross-functional cooperation and consistent process orientation
- Early detection of production bottlenecks and overcapacities
- Anytime planning without any latencies – based on real-time and simulation data
- Assuming demand, supply, capacity and inventory planning
- Enabling strategic material and capacity simulation as well as reliable capacity balancing
- Developing a consensus/master plan based on consolidated data from demand, supply and financial planning for final handover to the detailed planning process
Benefits from using the ORSOFT Enterprise Workbench (EWB) in the S&OP planning process
- Bidirectional data transfer with SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA and other ERP systems
- Linking operations and analytics: uniform and consistent figures. (KPIs) at all planning levels
- Financial ratios always transparently available: Plans (and plan adjustments) can be simulated and prioritised at key figure level
- Holistic planning approach: Horizontal and vertical process integration
- Security through certified integration in SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA using SAP user authentication
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence for improved planning algorithms
- (Multi-stage) cross-plant planning to timely prevent bottlenecks
- Automated alarm-based planning in line with supply chain control towers
- Master data simulation
- Simplifying budget planning
ORSOFT Enterprise Workbench (EWB): Bidirectional feedback to and from Advanced Planning & Scheduling
Unlike many other S&OP software solutions, ORSOFT follows a holistic end-to-end approach of supply chain management. Within the planning process, the software considers interdependencies between sales & operations planning and advanced planning & scheduling and integrates them into the modelling.
