At the heart of integrated business planning, Sales & Operations Planning delivers a holistic view of your enterprise-wide planning processes.
S/4 embedded Sales and Operations Planning
CONSILIO S&OP S/4-Add-on solution
Sales and Operations Planning is the core process for integrated corporate planning. It provides a complete planning picture of your company and includes corporate planning, sales and distribution planning, supply chain and production.
CONSILIO embedded Sales & Operations Planning is not an external system but part of the S/4HANA landscape. The solution is fully integrated, providing direct access to all data within S/4HANA, and is developed on the HANA platform with the modern UI5 user interface. All necessary process steps for a successful S&OP planning process are supported. In addition to the key figures and planning views recommended by CONSILIO as best practices, the solution also enables the implementation of customer-specific requirements.
Functions of S&OP
Representation of corporate and sales targets, planning of sales budgets, and variance analyses such as order intake versus plan.
Creation of sales forecasts using mathematical forecasting methods, manual expert forecasting, integration of customer forecasts, and analysis of forecast accuracy.
Analysis of existing contracts for remaining quantities and remaining terms, alert function for expiring quantities, planning and creation of new contracts.
Planning of quota quantities in case of limited product availability, release of quotas according to SAP Sales and Distribution.
Mapping of production capacities for lines, work centers, and/or employees; breakdown of bill of materials (BOM) levels for planning-relevant finished products, components, and purchased parts; bucket-oriented rough-cut capacity planning; identification of peak load and underload periods; release according to SAP PP or PP-P.
Key performance indicators for sales targets and planning figures at the appropriate levels such as sales organization, country/region, or customer group/customer.
Consolidation of KPIs at aggregated levels—such as product groups, customer segments, and production areas—with visual analytics.
Solution Highlights
- Aligned Planning Across Finance, Corporate, Sales & Marketing
- Embedded Solution for Sales Planning and S&OP
- Simplified Production Quantity Planning
- Visualization of Production Capacities
- Support to Prevent Order- and Unterutilization
A supply chain must react quickly to business requirements and overcome planning and process gaps.