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Agility Redefined: When S&OP Meets Big Data

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 09:28 AM PDT

Now that the world’s most sophisticated  companies have started to leverage the big data created by maturing S&OP processes to make better decisions, is S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) finally coming of age? A global high tech equipment manufacturer leverages the huge repository of data built on a year of S and OP plan archives to identify subtle emerging customer buying trends. A European consumer products giant taps into its giant S and OP data set to quickly adapt to weather driven supply disruptions. What’s happening? Simply stated, the law of convergence is at work—in this case the convergence of advances in information technology, planning process maturity, and increasingly complex, dynamic global supply chains that require a new level of sophistication. Doing analysis on S&OP data is not the same as analyzing historical data in a data warehouse. S&OP data is not just historical archives but also forward looking intelligent plans and scenarios. By merging the forward looking visibility that the S&OP plan provides and the power of analytics, we are providing customers with unprecedented opportunities to prepare for their future whether it is for upside opportunities or downside disruptions. Organizing the Data The Steelwedge cloud S&OP solution leverages the processing power of cloud computing and the foundation of information coming from ERP systems to enable the creation of supply and demand scenarios and simulations.… Read the rest

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