SALES & OPERATIONS PLANNING

Combining supply chain visibility with advanced analytics for synchronized growth

Build integrated sales & operations planning (S&OP) strategies that anticipate and synchronize sales, procurement, logistics, operations and finance to achieve focus, control, alignment, and superior business results.

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Improve Supply Chain Reliability with Collaborative Planning and Predictive Analytics

Netstock has partnered with Lora Cecere, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, to explain how collaborative technologies improve alignment and resiliency in the face of unprecedented variability.

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Business-wide synergy with S&OP

Increase visibility into sales, inventory, operations and finance data
Improve accountability and forecast accuracy
Optimize production and sourcing assignments
Improve the effectiveness of new products and marketing initiatives
Quickly change scenarios and analyze outcomes

What you get with Netstock

Predictability

Eliminate guesswork with accurate forecasts that anticipate dynamic market demand & supply risk

Simplicity

Easily run forecasting models for best and worst-case scenarios

Speed

Integrate order data with ERP systems for smarter, real-time demand, inventory, and production visibility

Build better
forecasts — faster

Netstock automatically assigns the best demand forecasting models for each item, customer, region, unit, price, cost, or margin. Smart analytics engines “learn” over time to improve forecast accuracy. Quickly review or adjust forecasts for individual SKUs, any level of product, or channel aggregation. Factor in lost sales, promotions, and other non-recurring events to produce better sales, inventory, procurement, and manufacturing plans.

Integrate and accelerate planning

Get a deeper level of forecasting granularity with exclusive Pivot Forecasting. Forecast at any level, including by sub-SKU attributes, channel, customer, or region, and work in any unit of measure. Plan on multiple dimensions to generate product and channel-specific forecasts weekly or daily creating symmetry between forecasting and planning executives in your business.

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Drive smarter decisions across your business

Netstock automatically generates inventory plans and product orders, directly porting order information to your ERP system. Make multi-item manual adjustments to forecasts and corresponding plans and synchronize sales forecasts with inventory, procurement, operations, and finance teams.

Out-plan uncertainty and drive continual improvement

See the direct impact of forecasting inputs, by running “what-if” scenarios and create strategic plans for best- and worst-case scenarios to maintain optimal fill rates in the face of dynamic demand and supply lead time.

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Inventory planning

See all your inventory KPIs in a single dashboard and get prescriptive and prioritized recommendations on SKUs important to your growth.

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Inventory ordering

Generate recommended orders to restock products across your network and create a balanced inventory holding. Create risk-optimized orders for each SKU and automatically send them to your ERP system with a single click.

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Sales & operations planning

Break down silos and create a central source of truth to drive confident, synchronized decision-making. Align operations and supply chain plans with sales, marketing, and financial strategies.

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Supplier performance monitoring

Monitor and measure product-specific lead times and overdue orders. Leverage supplier performance metrics to negotiate terms that reduce lead times and mitigate supply risk.

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Inventory policy modeling

Balance your inventory levels and financial investment with a data-driven inventory policy based on each product’s classification and risk profile. Model the impact of various inventory policy decisions and measure the outcome of each scenario.

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Netstock gives you core capabilities to drive smart S&OP

Integrated forecasting & demand planning

The sales and operations plan starts with highly accurate and automated expert forecasts that “learn” over time to continually increase forecast accuracy. Generate forecasts that respond to changing levels, trends, intermittency, seasonality, and external events.

Real-time inventory visibility

View inventory, backlogs, and planned supply at any level of aggregation, and in any unit of measure, providing all stakeholders with a comprehensive and timely view of the information they need.

Centralized planning & accountability

Break down silos and share goals and strategies in a single place, putting operations, sales, marketing, and finance on the same page. Facilitate efficient workflows that align operations and tactics with strategy.

Scenario planning & business analysis to accelerate business responsiveness

Create and compare multiple demand-supply scenarios and easily distribute plans and key data to stakeholders. Netstock IBP provides an efficient platform and makes it easier to go from annual or bi-annual planning to a monthly or weekly S&OP cadence.