SALES AND OPERATIONS PLANNING Software Module
IBS Sales and Operations Planning is software that supports a decision-making process for balancing supply and demand, while maximizing financial performance and customer satisfaction. The solution helps you build ahead to meet foreseeable product demand.
HIGHLIGHTS of Features & Benefits
- Ensure that demand, supply, and resources are synchronized for peak performance
- Balance supply and demand over time on an aggregated level
- Detect capacity problems earlier and adjust strategies before they impact the bottom line
- Define, simulate and analyze inventory targets and limits
- Turn data into information with an easy-to-use graphical user interface, improving analysis and accuracy.
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The link between sales and operations – the front and back ends of any business – has always been crucial to growth and profitability. Optimizing this link has never been more challenging or strategic than it is today, in an age of global sourcing, short product lifecycles, unpredictable demand, lean inventories and real time information flows.
IBS Sales and Operations Planning runs together with IBS Inventory Control. The solution can also run in conjunction with two other planning applications, IBS Demand Planning and
IBS Supply Planning (including DRP – distribution resource planning), as part of a more comprehensive planning and forecasting solution with IBS Enterprise.
LARGE-SCALE FORECASTING
With IBS Sales and Operations Planning, your forecasts can take into account such factors as demand data, capacity and storage constraints, and inventory and lead-time targets. This data results in simulations and analyses of operation plans, with the option to make a plan active in your system and have it affect forecast calculations.
IBS Sales and Operations Planning shows you an overall picture of demand and supply over time on an aggregated, volume-based level: for example, by item group, item family or item sector. If your company uses the module IBS Manufacturing and Assembly, you can also include a department or section in the demand/supply calculations.
Use IBS Sales and Operations Planning to simulate and calculate:
- Supply capacity
- Inventory turnover targets
- Desired service levels
- Inventory within inventory limits
- Lead-time targets (for procurement or manufacturing)
The solution is integrated with up-to-the-minute, real-time inventory calculations within IBS Enterprise. IBS Sales and Operations Planning forecasts can be used for daily inventory statistics and calculations, as well as for operations control.
FOR BOTH DISTRIBUTION AND MANUFACTURING
Either distributors or manufacturers can use IBS Sales and Operations Planning to help solve capacity problems. Capacity constraints are user-defined within the IBS solution and can be anything from production limitations or warehouse boundaries to a supplier's ability to deliver. By analyzing capacity constraints, you can avoid delivery promises that are impossible to keep and improve customer satisfaction.
The solution is designed to help you plan for the best operational balance of inventory, capability, lead times and service.
EASY-TO-USE UI
The IBS solution is presented in an intuitive user interface with multiple windows that show you forecasting details. You can then use the IBS planner's workbench to view and manipulate simulations and analyses in graphical format, such as pie or bar charts and other formats.
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IBS PlannerView provides an adaptable, graphical and operational workbench for Sales and Operation Planning that improves visibility and efficiency.
SIMULATIONS
For determining costs, you can define various inventory targets – such as service level or maximum stock value on an aggregated level – for a simulation. Supply with limitations can be simulated, such as adjusting purchase volumes based on available warehouse resources (distribution) or planning monthly production based on a pending supplier agreement (manufacturing).
You can also simulate supply from various limitations, via a resource table. You can use this functionality to, for example, fine-tune purchase volumes against available resources in the warehouse.
You can create several operation plans at the same time and run multiple simulations before choosing one that is right for your operations.
Once you activate an operation plan with the values that you want, the plan will update inventory forecast figures. These values can also be transferred to the IBS Enterprise Business Information Warehouse for subsequent follow-up and analysis.
WORKING WITH SIMULATION DETAILS
The simulations in IBS Sales and Operations Planning let you manipulate values on a detail level to give you different results and scenarios. You can change the sales and operation plan forecast (for multiple records), record, supply (for multiple records), ID parameters and weight, as well as generate plan items.
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