Enterprise Social Collaboration Fuels Innovative Sales & Operations Planning

As the sales and operations planning leader, you have a few principal responsibilities: setting priorities, planning and executing your supply chain strategies, driving incremental improvements while quickly adapting to changing market and customer requirements, and linking changes in demand to changes in supply while keeping in mind the financial results.

But that’s just your average day-to-day activity - you’re also expected to advance changes in thinking and execution to solve S&OP limitations.

What’s your most fundamental challenge? If you’re like most S&OP professionals, it’s keeping all of your stakeholders in alignment. But typically the technology you use doesn’t provide the right framework for keeping everyone in synch. You’re under new pressures to include new internal and external stakeholders who may have been overlooked in the past. You have more influencers and occasionally interested participants than ever before.

You have an ever-growing set of inputs and data sets that have to be managed alongside relationships. You need technology that supports your processes by streamlining access to the right data, in the right place, at the right time so that your S&OP efforts move smoothly, deliver the right results, and open up opportunities for innovation.