Bursa Says:
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"S&OP
can be the single most
important weapon you have
for ensuring that your
enterprise is profitably
servicing the right customers,
through the right channels,
with the right products."
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Today’s
manufacturing environment continues
to grow in complexity. Rapid
globalization creates more and
more challenges as supply chains
are extended, and customers
demand greater responsiveness,
more frequent deliveries and
higher compliance. Gaining better
demand visibility and synchronizing
your supply chain so that it
can quickly and flexibly meet
market demand has become critical
to maintaining and growing margins,
delivering on product innovations
and providing great customer
service.
As
manufacturers and distributors
become more demand driven, supply
chain plans need to be translated
into achievable execution plans
for procurement, production
planning and logistics. Although
many companies have improved
their silos of automation, the
real benefits come from bringing
supply chain planning and execution
closer together. This is what’s
driving many of today’s
manufacturers to invest in improving
their Sales & Operations
Planning (S&OP) processes.
When S&OP is done well,
demand matches supply in a profitable
operational plan and yields
lower inventories, better customer
service, higher revenues and
improved margins.
Shaw Industries, Inc., a manufacturer
of floor coverings, formalized
their sales and operation planning
processes with Logility Voyager
Solutions. With the increased
ability to collaborate both
internally and externally, Shaw
improved forecast accuracy by
19% in the hard surfaces divisions,
increased order fill rate by
4% while decreasing hard surface
inventory by $20 million, and
increased customer service and
satisfaction levels.
S&OP
can be the single most important
weapon you have for
ensuring that your enterprise
is profitably servicing the
right customers, through the
right channels, with the right
products. Logility Voyager Solutions
enable manufacturers and distributors
to automate and streamline the
S&OP process to help continuously
balance dynamic demand, supply,
distribution and financial plans
to achieve corporate objectives.
With
a formalized S&OP process,
companies can build more
competitive supply chains through
increased demand visibility,
improved sourcing, synchronized
manufacturing, and optimized
transportation to more cost-effectively
deliver superior customer service.
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