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S&OP INSIGHT EXECUTIVE BRIEF Global business interdependence has driven the creation of complex demand/supply networks. These, in turn, are producing a new set of challenges for large manufacturers including insufficient collaboration and visibility into extended partner, customer and supplier relationships. Compounding these challenges is the need to manage an explosion of IT system data in step with the rapid pace of today’s global business. All of the above has resulted in an “agility gap” in organizations today—90% of organizations indicate that they consider planning agility to be crucial to business, but only 27% say they are good at it. Often, the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process is tasked to provide context from all of the collected data to both forecast future opportunity and analyze it for real-time decision making. Today, most companies have two technology options. The first incorporates planning solutions to provide a forward-looking projection based on analysis of transactional data such as orders, backlogs, shipments, supply constraints. The second taps analytics to perform backward-looking deep-dive analysis, slicing and dicing on a variety of historic data points such as point of sale and customer website click streams. Steelwedge has connected the two with a powerful, adaptable Planning Analytics engine that adopts the best of both worlds. The Planning Analytics engine within the Steelwedge Platform, in turn, powers Steelwedge S&OP Insight, a series of high-performance analytic dashboards. Steelwedge leverages its single unified data model for global scenario management across supply, demand and finance. The solution provides extremely rich collaborative capabilities supported by Enterprise-Enabled Excel, online analytics and mobile delivery. With S&OP Insight businesses can assure: Steelwedge S&OP Insight Planning Analytics: Learn from the past and project the future Steelwedge Platform Financial Reconciliation Scenario Planning Workflow Plan of Record Assumption Management Security S&OP Collaborate Customer Collaboration Supplier Collaboration Integrated Business Planning Risk Management Profit & Loss Strategic Planning Executive S&OP S&OP Apps App Library Customer Developed Statistical Forecast Demand Planning Pipeline Management Revenue Planning Sales Collaboration Attach Rate Planning Consensus Demand Lifecycle Management S&OP Sales Demand Sourcing Supply Plan Rough Cut Capacity Procurement Plan Inventory Planning Master Planning Allocations Inventory Investment S&OP Operations S&OP Insight Mobile Dashboards Excel Pivots Management S&OP Apps ntory Planning ster Planning Allocations tory Investment ns S&OP Insight Mobile Dashboards Excel Pivots Proactive Agility. With Insight, you will learn about what you don’t know and determine what to do about it. Through exception-based dashboards that analyze planning as well as transactional data, planners and analysts can get near real-time visibility into trends and make proactive decisions. Planning Root-Cause Analysis. In business intelligence (BI), you analyze why things happened the way they did. Typical BI solutions look backward at data. With Insight, you let the system do scenario modeling about potential futures, and then Insight helps pinpoint the best possible tradeoffs within your specific business constraints. Collaborative Insight. Embedded analytics provide access beyond the BI analyst. There is no artificial separation between planners and the learning they need to drive better performance. Planning Versus Analytics Forward looking Suited for simulation and mathematical calculations Typically used by planners OLTP technology Planning Backward looking Suited for metrics and aggregation Typically used by execs and business analysts OLAP technology Analytics Steelwedge marries the best of both with the latest Columnar, In Memory Database technology to ensure scalable, fast performance for all of your planning decision-making. Page 1 of 2 | © 2014 Steelwedge Software, Inc. All rights reserved. – [email protected] – 855.980.8800
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S&OP INSIGHT EXECUTIVE BRIEF
Global business interdependence has driven the creation of complex demand/supply networks. These, in turn, are producing a new set of challenges for large manufacturers including insuf�cient collaboration and visibility into extended partner, customer and supplier relationships. Compounding these challenges is the need to manage an explosion of IT system data in step with the rapid pace of today’s global business. All of the above has resulted in an “agility gap” in organizations today—90% of organizations indicate that they consider planning agility to be crucial to business, but only 27% say they are good at it.
Often, the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process is tasked to provide context from all of the collected data to both forecast future opportunity and analyze it for real-time decision making. Today, most companies have two technology options. The �rst incorporates planning solutions to provide a forward-looking projection based on analysis of transactional data such as orders, backlogs, shipments, supply constraints. The second taps analytics to perform backward-looking deep-dive analysis, slicing and dicing on a variety of historic data points such as point of sale and customer website click streams.
Steelwedge has connected the two with a powerful, adaptable Planning Analytics engine that adopts the best of both worlds. The Planning Analytics engine within the Steelwedge Platform, in turn, powers Steelwedge S&OP Insight, a series of high-performance analytic dashboards.
Steelwedge leverages its single uni�ed data model for global scenario management across supply, demand and �nance. The solution provides extremely rich collaborative capabilities supported by Enterprise-Enabled Excel, online analytics and mobile delivery. With S&OP Insight businesses can assure:
Steelwedge S&OP Insight
Planning Analytics: Learn from the past and project the future
Steelwedge PlatformFinancial
ReconciliationScenarioPlanning Workflow Plan of Record Assumption
Management Security
S&OP CollaborateCustomer Collaboration Supplier Collaboration
Integrated Business Planning Risk ManagementProfit & LossStrategic Planning
Executive S&OP
S&OP AppsApp Library
CustomerDeveloped
Statistical Forecast
Demand Planning
Pipeline Management
Revenue Planning
Sales Collaboration
Attach Rate Planning
Consensus Demand
Lifecycle Management
S&OP SalesDemand Sourcing
Supply Plan
Rough Cut Capacity
Procurement Plan
Inventory Planning
Master Planning
Allocations
Inventory Investment
S&OP Operations
S&OP InsightMobile
Dashboards
Excel Pivots
Steelwedge PlatformFinancial
ReconciliationScenarioPlanning Workflow Plan of Record Assumption
Management Security
S&OP CollaborateCustomer Collaboration Supplier Collaboration
Integrated Business Planning Risk ManagementProfit & LossStrategic Planning
Executive S&OP
S&OP AppsApp Library
CustomerDeveloped
Statistical Forecast
Demand Planning
Pipeline Management
Revenue Planning
Sales Collaboration
Attach Rate Planning
Consensus Demand
Lifecycle Management
S&OP SalesDemand Sourcing
Supply Plan
Rough Cut Capacity
Procurement Plan
Inventory Planning
Master Planning
Allocations
Inventory Investment
S&OP Operations
S&OP InsightMobile
Dashboards
Excel Pivots
Proactive Agility. With Insight, you will learn about what you don’t know and determine what to do about it. Through exception-based dashboards that analyze planning as well as transactional data, planners and analysts can get near real-time visibility into trends and make proactive decisions.
Planning Root-Cause Analysis. In business intelligence (BI), you analyze why things happened the way they did. Typical BI solutions look backward at data. With Insight, you let the system do scenario modeling about potential futures, and then Insight helps pinpoint the best possible tradeoffs within your speci�c business constraints.
Collaborative Insight. Embedded analytics provide access beyond the BI analyst. There is no arti�cial separation between planners and the learning they need to drive better performance.
Planning Versus Analytics
Forward lookingSuited for simulation and mathematical calculationsTypically used by plannersOLTP technology
PlanningBackward lookingSuited for metrics and aggregationTypically used by execs and business analystsOLAP technology
Analytics
Steelwedge marries the best of both with the latest Columnar, In Memory Database technology to ensure scalable, fast performance for all of your planning decision-making.
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S&OP INSIGHT EXECUTIVE BRIEF
Technology Capabilities of the S&OP Insight Solution:
Harness Big Data: Tap operational data from across your systems that has been aggregated and normalized in the Steelwedge IBP Platform. Steelwedge Insight allows users to access and exploit that data to sift out the key relationships and inter-dependencies among supply, demand and �nance to unearth details and insights previously below the surface in high volumes of data. A unique marrying of OLTP and OLAP technologies, along with a columnar indexing approach, enables this capability. Utilization of state-of-the-art hardware innovations in a cloud environment further facilitates this unique ability.
a)
Make sense of your Big Data: Aggregate and DisaggregatesHigh volume transaction processing includes stock tickers, commodity point of sales, planning and collaboration. Typically in S&OP, hundreds of users are making changes to the forecast and related supply and demand data in a collaborative planning process. Another set of business users wants to make sense of these changes and run business-level questions. Supply chain professionals want to ask metrics-related questions. Traditional technologies do not play well. OLTP handles transaction processing but is not capable of handling the queries. An OLAP-based approach is ideally suited for this. Traditional OLAP technologies are designed to be batch oriented and data-warehouse oriented, however. In other words, they are a huge investment in IT resources and bring a complexity inherent in serving a much bigger purpose than just S&OP or collaborative planning. Steelwedge has long recognized this issue, and has applied a new approach called Planning Analytics. The Steelwedge Planning Analytics Collaborator creates a real-time bridge between the collaborative system (OLTP) and the analytics system (OLAP).
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Mobile DashboardsOnline Dashboards
Online Reports
Excel Reports
S&OP Insight
Role-Based S&OP Insight
Executive
Executive Users–Access performance dashboards, metrics and trendsTypical delivery mechanism–iPad or iPhoneLightweight reports with fixed formatRequirement for scenario management
Analyst
Business Analysts–Perform ad hoc analytics, what-if scenario analysis and root-cause analysisTypical delivery mechanism–online dashboards or ExcelDeep-dive ad hoc analysis requirement
1. Scan the KPIs• Look for exceptions by scanning multiple
reports daily
2. Isolate the Problem• Look through several reports that contain
detailed data to determine which specific area needs attention
3. Determine the Root Cause• Conduct interactive reporting analysis of
related dimensions to determine root cause of the problem
Business
Business Users–Operational needs with lower touch, workflow-based reportsNeed to support workflow and scenariosTypical delivery mechanism–ExcelIn-depth reports with transactional data involvement in some cases
Steelwedge Software, Inc.
Steelwedge integrated sales, operations and �nance planning solutions provide the "shock absorbers" to recognize, recalibrate and respond in a volatile environment. Business agility starts with Steelwedge for a clear line of sight from plan to performance to pro�t. For additional information, please email us: [email protected].
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