Sales and Operations Planning Solutions

Facilitate rapid demand-supply planning and execution processes

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Sales and Operations Planning

Traditional sales and operations planning (S&OP) synchronizes supply planning functions with customer demand to achieve overall customer service and productivity goals. i2 takes the S&OP process one step further by adding plan-do-check-act (PDCA) capabilities that promote continuous process refinement. This closed-loop management approach enables tight integration between plan and execution and extends traditional demand-supply matching to include reconciliation with financials.

A successful closed-loop sales and operations management process requires:

Process orchestration
Corporate accountability
“What-if” scenario analysis and demand shaping
Financial plan synchronization
Master data management

“In addition to being very user-friendly, i2 Sales and Operations Management has best practices workflows, which have been built up to address many important i2 customer requirements from companies such as LG, GM, and Toshiba. Having the opportunity to leverage these best practices proved to be very helpful for our company to manage demand effectively. As a result, we’ve reduced global inventory by 40 percent in the last year.”

Jaegil Song
Deputy General Manager
Team Leader, S&OP Team
Doosan Corporation

i2 Sales and Operations Management

Ensure rapid demand and supply planning and execution by:

Assessing daily performance to identify deviations from plan, then implementing PDCA controls based on the most profitable course of action
Creating a series of planned, repeatable processes that can be implemented quickly to reduce or eliminate plan deviations
Breaking down silos and increasing data visibility across all departments, synchronizing the plan with corporate financial goals

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