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Boost business alignment with S&OP/IBP software

Seamlessly blend your supply, demand and operational balancing acts with Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and S&OP to ensure all your financial, operational, strategic and supply chain objectives are perfectly aligned.

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Key Benefits of S&OP/IBP

Maximize Profitability

Maintain balanced plans to deliver excellent customer service, reduce waste - and hit financial targets.

Minimize Risk

Minimize supply chain financial risks and avoid unexpected expediting costs.

Foster Collaboration

Connect all processes and break down silos to make smarter decisions and unify your business goals.

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Key Capabilities to Align Business Objectives

Decision support

Provides optimal decision support for S&OP and IBP stakeholders including business scorecards and dashboards across your enterprise.

Process controls

You gain the ability to generate a set of repeatable and auditable tasks for each S&OP and IBP cycle to ensure a consistent and efficient process.

Cross-functional collaboration

The solution facilitates clear and formal collaboration across your business. It ensures that your company-wide vision is shared by all business stakeholders.

Scenario management

Model alternate initiatives in support of your corporate objectives. The impact of every plan change can be measured in terms of adherence to your corporate goals.

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Customer Success Stories

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Solvay optimizes forecasting, production and distribution plannin

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ADM Improves Quality of Sales Forecasts

The specialist in animal nutrition boosts customer service levels and reduces inventory.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is S&OP/IBP?

S&OP/IBP is an integrated business process, typically conducted monthly, that brings together sales, marketing, product development, manufacturing, procurement, finance and accounting. This alignment ensures balanced supply and demand, fostering organizational consensus to achieve key financial and business objectives.

What are some common challenges with S&OP/IBP?

With various parties involved, S&OP/IBP can be quite complex. Businesses today face significant challenges in accurately forecasting demand and maintaining optimal inventory. Erratic customer behavior makes accurate predictions difficult without synchronized processes, systems, and people, leading to poor decisions. Overlooking seasonality and sudden demand spikes can result in costly stockouts, lost sales, and poor customer service. Compounding these issues are organizational silos, where a lack of connection between strategic vision and practical planning creates conflicting goals and a disjointed approach. Finally, disparate information scattered across multiple transaction systems—from supply chain to finance and even trading partners—makes it incredibly hard to gain a unified view, hindering effective decision-making and alignment with common business goals.

How does QAD support scenario planning and "what-if" analysis?

Scenario planning is a key element of QAD DSCP, giving you an effective way to perform "what-if" analyses and make informed decisions.