Balancing Supply and Demand
End-to-end synchronisation from sales forecasting to production, ensuring aligned capacity, materials and delivery schedules.
Improve Forecast Accuracy
Optimising inventory and safety stocks in line with service-level goals, while minimising obsolescence and freeing up capital.
Accurate what-if scenarios with clear, actionable insights
Agile steering: proactively responding to demand spikes, supply constraints and declining allocation profitability.
Inventory and portfolio optimisation
Optimising inventory and safety stocks in line with service-level goals, reducing obsolescence and working-capital needs.
From Forecast to Execution — Boost Service Levels, Reduce Inventory and Safeguard Margins
Under- or overutilisation ties up capital, blocks market opportunities, and increases inventory costs. The root cause is often siloed planning across Sales, Supply Chain and Finance. An integrated S&OP process closes these gaps and makes decisions transparent.
This is exactly where smartpm comes in. We integrate data and drivers from demand, capacity and lead times; plan and simulate using range-based forecasts and what-if scenarios; and reconcile results in Pre-S&OP and Executive S&OP. Actions are then agreed upon and executed in the re-plan (S&OE).
The result: a fully connected planning cycle – linking strategic objectives with operational execution, from demand planning through production and capacity to efficient inventory and supply chain management.
Factsheet
- Connecting all departments, actual and planned data in a single point of truth
- Data Connectivity – integration of data sources and external databases
- Overview of all functions and dashboards: planning, analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting
- Easy data visualization
- Connect all sub-plans: profit & loss statement, balance sheet, cash flow
- Seamlessly connect strategic and operational planning and implement measures to achieve objectives
- Better decision-making through proven planning approaches and high-performance software – FP&A, xP&A
- Scenario analysis, rolling forecast, driver-based planning
- Seamless integration with Power BI and AI assistants
Sales & Operations nachhaltig optimieren – in 5 einfachen Schritten
Kompakte Übersicht in 4 Kurzvideos
Inhalte des Videos
- In 5 einfachen Schritten zu nachhaltigem S&OP Erfolg:
- Erfahren Sie, in welcher Reifegrad-Stufe Sie sich derzeit befinden und wie Sie zur höchsten Stufe kommen
- Sehen Sie, wie Angebot und Nachfrage ausbalanciert und die Go-to-Market und Produktportfolio-Strategie optimiert werden können.
- Lernen Sie die Vorteile einer nahtlosen S&OP Integration in die Unternehmensplanung kennen.
- Sehen Sie Szenario- und Was-Wäre-Wenn Analysen in moderner Controllingtechnologie.
- Planen Sie Top-Down, Bottom-up, optimieren Sie Kapazitäten, Bedarfsplanung, Produktionsprozesse und Ressourcenmanagement.
“We were looking for a flexible reporting and planning solution to meet our requirements in S&OP, project and customer performance management, and integrated financial planning. We are now working with a highly open and configurable CPM platform that was successfully implemented with the support of the experts at smartpm.solutions. They quickly understood our business model and enabled us to realise tangible value from the solution right away.”
Stephen Dews, CFO
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