ToolsGroup

ToolsGroup S&OP is a software that employs the same data model for both tactical and operational planning, creating a single integrated data model with one version of the truth. Therefore, ToolsGroup S&OP enables an enterprise to achieve plans.

Thus, ToolsGroup S&OP is a solution for the monthly S&OP meetings where managers make strategic decisions such as increasing revenue or adding new products that don’t always translate into operational plans that can be practically executed. The managers plan with one model and execute with another, creating a critical gap that is difficult to bridge, this often relegates S&OP to a passive planning exercise, rather than actively connecting to results. ToolsGroup S&OP is coherent at every level, continuously synchronized through perfect mapping.

This single model solves another problem. Finance and management must work at a higher level of aggregation to efficiently identify trade-offs. But, operations must optimize with a detailed model that includes real-world constraints such as plant level production or distribution center capacities. This single model supports the S&OP process with best-in-class optimization based on detailed constraints, while synchronized with higher aggregation levels where collaboration and decisions are made.

ToolsGroup S&OP supports three levels of S&OP processes: strategic (sometimes called Integrated Business Planning or IBP), tactical Sales and Operations Planning, and operational/execution planning (Sales and Operations Execution or S&OE). In summary, ToolsGroup S&OP delivers a capability that straddles from strategy to execution providing executives the ability to make informed strategic and tactical decisions, by leveraging a single end-to-end data model of the supply chain, with a clear view of the best (optimal) options and associated tradeoffs, and the ability to implement those decisions into daily execution.

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