text: S&OP | Sales and Operations Integrated Business Planning
  S&OP – Throw a double six to start?
  Sales and Operations Planning (s&op) focuses a business on one integrated business plan with a single set of metrics. It resides at the heart of the planning function, and delivers benefits to all of the main activities –
  Forces alignment at multiple levels of the company
  Brings people together to make decisions
  Helps you be more responsive
  Identify and resolve poor performance
  Keep on top of risk management
  Improves accountability and team working
  Total Logistics are experts in S&OP and can help you create an integrated sales and operations plan that will give you:
  enable you to reconcile supply and demand plans
  help you determine your supply chain requirements over short, medium and long-term horizons.
  In a recent example, Total Logistics delivered successful S&OP solutions to a global manufacturer. As a result of this:
  finished goods inventory holding was reduced by more than 50%
  operational costs were reduced by nearly 10%.
  "I'm doing it already"
  This is one of the most common comments businesses make. However, in reality, this is usually only partially true.
  The majority of companies do perform some elements of the sales and operations process, but not all of them. This means that the main issue resides in the misunderstanding of the complete process, rather than the company's ability to execute it.
  So the starting point is to address the misunderstanding of what true S&OP is. One of the best ways of demonstrating the holistic process is to visualise it in a more familiar way.
  Read our Sales and Operations Planning case study for a Japanese HQ manufacturer
  Download our PDF on how to play the sales and operations planning game and win!
  Watch our video on the benefits of sales and operations planning
  "Total Logistics have clearly proved their expertise. Sound analysis skills with innovative thinking, have resulted in creative solutions. Supported by their wide experience they are however very pragmatic in their approach and resulting conclusions."