Analytics · Manufacturers & Distributors
S&OP and demand planning analytics
A manufacturer that imports components built an S&OP view tying demand, supply, and import lead times into one plan.
Microsoft FabricPower BIAzure Machine LearningSemantic model
- Forecast accuracy
- +13 pts
- illustrative
- Planning view
- Single
- shared
- Lead time
- In the plan
- import-aware
- Horizon
- By family
- and period
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The challenge
Sales, operations, and procurement each planned off their own numbers, so the monthly S&OP meeting argued about data instead of deciding on it.
What we built
We unified demand, supply, and inventory with import lead times into one planning model, with forecast accuracy measured by family and horizon.
- One demand, supply, and inventory view for S&OP.
- Forecast accuracy by product family and horizon.
- Import lead time built into the supply plan.
Outcomes
- The S&OP meeting decides instead of debating whose number is right.
- Forecast accuracy is measured and improved.
- Supply plans account for real import lead times.
Where the data came from
SAP IBPSales historySupplier lead timesInventory data
Data is drawn from the systems the operation already runs on and delivered in the client’s own tenant.
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