Steelwedge

E2open and Steelwedge join forces to deliver collaborative sales & operations planning across multi-enterprise business networks, combining leading supply chain operating network and best of breed S&OP solutions.

In November 2013, Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) launched the much anticipated fourth edition of its videogame console, the PlayStation.

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) serves as a critical process to project, balance and manage the integration of supply and demand.

Achieving bottom-line benefits from any S&OP program requires close coordination among inventory, production and finance plans.

As a sales professional, you know that you serve as your company’s “ear to the ground.” As you interact with customers and prospects, you gain invaluable insights into the dynamics of the marketplace: Where are new opportunities arising? What is the competitive landscape? What are the intractable challenges that companies face that your product can solve?

Let’s say that you’re working in sales planning and analysis for a 20-year-old division of a global consumer electronics company, and you’ve just had a product launch that’s the most unsuccessful in the company’s history. As a company, you’d been the number one player in the space up until this point. Suddenly, it seems, you’re fighting for the number two slot every quarter. What do you do?

The challenges companies face today are daunting. A virtual explosion of IT system data and the interdependencies of global business have created complex demand and supply networks that render traditional planning approaches obsolete.

Steelwedge S&OP Insight, a series of high-performance analytics dashboards, delivers actionable intelligence from big business data in a few minutes.