#SAP SCM APO

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Valtitude S & OP

Sales and Operations Planning Process thrives on collaboration and honest communication between key organizational players.  This is a unique process embodying several information sharing sessions and decision forums. The final intent here is to generate an organizational plan and key Sales and Operations issues for the top organizational manager to decide on. 

We kick off the S&OP implementation with an on-site workshop to be attended by your sponsors and stakeholders.  For many companies on the wall about taking the plunge, this workshop will be a key input and bring to fore many company-specific drivers.  Our on-site workshop addresses the following key steps in developing and implementing an effective S&OP process.

By having your key stakeholders attend this workshop, you attain a huge competitive advantage in moving forward the idea of integrated business planning.  

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VALTITUDE DEMAND ANALYTICS

Under the six-sigma DMAIC approach, measurement of your current state is a key requirement for diagnostic, design and implementation of the process.  Even for on-going process stability, measurement is critical.  

The Demand Analytics module provides key insights on your planning performance and provides an insightful view of demand volatility, demand visibility and product mix analysis.  It also provides additional insights on comparisons to the budget and annual plan. 

Our Clients have reported improved Demand visibility, forecast accuracy and higher adoption of the S&OP process throughout the organization.

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After the reenginnering project, we continue to support our clients who have a thriving SAP landscape. We provide:

Complete Implementation and Re-implementation services

Model Tuning and Algorithm Optimization for Demand, Inventory and Supply in SAP IBP

Support to maintain your SCM planning Views, Macros, Alerts and Process Chain Cycles

Continuous support for IBP Implementations

If you are an SAP IBP client with significant challenges with your implementation and finding it hard to use the system, please contact us today to see how we can help you. Our initial consultation and scoping exercise is complementary.

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FORECAST VALUE ADD REPORTING

With Forecast Value Add reporting you can track accuracy across each step of your forecasting process. Easily compare the statistical forecast, final forecast, and/or specific overrides to what actually happened. This at-a-glance report helps you quickly identify which steps or participants in your forecasting process are adding value and which are making your forecasts less accurate.

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Create a more streamlined planning process and organization by asking the right questions: 

Has APO helped improve our forecast accuracy? 

Are there products and customers that are better left to APO's automated modeling strategies? 

Am I using a segmented modeling approach? 

How many customer/product segmentations are being reviewed by my demand planners each month? 

Are the statistical models tuned? How do we set the various model parameters to produce good forecasts? 

Am I using an exception-oriented process in my forecasting activity? 

How is APO helping us simplify and improve the promotional planning process? Is it integrated into the CRM system? 

Have I created the correct customer grouping for leveraging correlations across customer forecast errors? 

Has the system simplified and improved forecast reporting process? 

Are we using the system defined error metrics in APO? 

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INVENTORY OPTIMIZATION FOR SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING HANDS-ON WORKSHOP

This program has been developed to communicate industry best practices in the area of inventory management to Supply Chain professionals.

It aims to provide the necessary technical background to enable attendees to develop & implement best practices & procedures in materials management into their own business units. It will holistically present the best practices and explain the concepts and calculations for optimizing your inventory parameters.

We preach true inventory optimization - help you to establish the right parameters your process and systems may need to run a lean machine with just optimal inventories to deliver the service and fill rates. This is a hands-on, practical workshop with many exercises and case studies and excel-based work out problems. Every planner and material manager will leave the training hall with a diverse skill set to do their day to day jobs.

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WORKSHOP ON Demand Planning for S&OP :

An accurate demand plan helps you reduce inventory costs and increase customer service levels. When properly implemented, the demand plan helps create a lean and customer-centric supply chain.

In this workshop, you will learn how to develop a baseline statistical forecast and leverage a collaborative process to add customer intelligence. The result is a more accurate plan that includes promotional activity, customer intelligence, and display activity.

This two-day intensive workshop will take you through an overview of the demand planning process, and the organization and structure within a supply chain. Our course comprehensively covers statistical modeling to create accurate forecasts, in-depth discussion on model diagnostics to improve the quality of the forecast models with specific references to popular applications such as SAP IBP, Oracle, Demantra, ForecastPro, etc.

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IBP Process brings together all elements of Sales, Marketing, Finance and Operations into one integrated set of plans.

Our approach is two-pronged - we help with the diagnostics for implementing a holistic Integrated Business Planning process that is agnostic to the tool.  Then we evaluate your systems landscape and resource readiness to implement SAP IBP. 

Three weeks on-site

IBP Subject Matter Experts

SCM Data analytics to uncover the opportunity

50% of the diagnostics engagement fee rebated if we implement the IBP Solution

Analyze your existing processes to identify potential gaps to best practices

Let Data drive the Design: Leverage big data and analytics to build the infrastructure and capabilities.  What type of analytics and KPIs do we need for a successful implementation. 

What is the value opportunity for the IBP implementation?

If you are a company with a well established SAP APO Process, what are the steps necessary for conversion from APO to SAP IBP? 

How does IBP add value to your planning process? 

OUR CONSULTING MODEL EMPLOYS THE SIX-SIGMA METHODOLOGY OF DMAIC:

Define

Measure

Analyze

Improve and Control

Because of the diverse experience of DemandPlanning.Net Consultants, we can design and deliver the process in almost half the time and resource costs required by some of the bigger consulting houses. We add value to your process design in two ways:

With our knowledge base of best practices and the benchmark industry process, we can analyze and recommend processes and benchmarks rather quickly

Our central philosophy is exception management grounded in the Six-Sigma principles. This helps design a very effective process that is time-efficient as well

A quick three week engagement to assess your organizational readiness for implementing IBP

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What should be the Guiding objective of the Corporate supply chain?  

Improving forecast accuracy?

Customer in-stock levels

Minimize inventory

Lowest cost production and distribution?

The essence of Supply Chain Planning is the Order to Cash process or the continuum of Plan - Source - Make - Deliver.

Popularly nicknamed as SCM Transformation Consulting refers to helping organizations transform their Supply Chain Management Process.  We design and implement the S&OP process and help our clients roll-out the optimal technology.  

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With a variety of statistical models and demand planning features,  SAP SCM is a powerful forecasting tool. It includes Life cycle planning, Time series profiling, Outlier Detection and Exception Management as well. 

So is your company leveraging the full functionality of APO modeling and exception management? 

At Valtitude,  we help you develop consistent processes to leverage the modeling power of the SAP SCM engine from basic time series models to multiple regression models. 

If your planning process with SAP needs to be re-engineered, we offer Re-design and configuration. Configure and implement a brand new APO planning environment or fix challenges created by the original implementation with better performance usability.  

Our Model Tuning Consulting Service will leverage the features in the existing configuration and optimize the Statistical capabilities. 

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Value Chain Planning -Solutions Tuning

We improve the usability and adoption of all major planning systems. On completion of a usability project, you can expect to have much better demand forecasts and finished goods plans.

We have repaired and re-engineered complex and unusable implementations. Such re-implementations may range from minor system tweaks to system enhancements with model tuning to major re-implementations. 

Our associates have the expertise to leverage the solution algorithms to solve client-specific business problems. Systems we have re-implemented include SAP IBP, SAP SCM APO, Oracle Demantra, Kinaxes and many more. Of late we have been doing a lot of work in the SAP IBP and Kinaxis Rapid Response platforms.    

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VALTITUDE SALES AND OPERATIONS PLANNING

Manufacturers in the Consumer Packages Goods Sector were the early adopters of Supply Chain Forecasting. Catering to the firm's demand of the retail partners, CPG manufacturers focused on minimizing the forecast error to drive fill rates and lower inventory carrying costs. 

As a natural progression, CPG companies started adopting the S&OP process to develop forecast consensus and holistic planning.

Most of their supply chains have an active S&OP process, which is cross-functional with participation from Sales, Marketing, Logistics, Supply Planning, Finance, Sales Planning, and Demand Planning. Typically, there is a one-number philosophy although the more practical processes advocate tolerances between forecasts with different objectives.

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VALTITUDE SCM ANALYTICS

With Planvida, the Supply Chain Scorecard process can be completed in minutes.  

Every month, you get all the KPIs for your S&OP in a few minutes - ready to go on Day 2 morning.  

Some clients want the SCM analytics implemented first as this gives you end-to-end insights into your entire supply chain.  Our SCM anlaytics cloud gives you key insights into your customer service, inventory metrics, production adherence to plan, lead-time compliance and several control charts for tracking supply chain functional performance to plan. 

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We improve the usability and adoption of all major planning systems. On completion of a usability project, you can expect to have much better demand forecasts and finished goods plans.

We have repaired and re-engineered complex and unusable implementations. Such re-implementations may range from minor system tweaks to system enhancements with model tuning to major re-implementations.

After the reenginnering project, we continue to support our clients who have a thriving SAP landscape. We provide:

Complete Implementation and Re-implementation services

Model Tuning and Algorithm Optimization for Demand, Inventory and Supply in SAP IBP

Support to maintain your SCM planning Views, Macros, Alerts and Process Chain Cycles

Continuous support for IBP Implementations

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EXCEPTION REPORTING

Forecast Pro’s flexible exception reporting allows you to focus on areas that need your attention. The reports are easily customizable to reflect different performance metrics ? such as forecast vs. history or whether forecast error exceeds a pre-defined threshold – and give you a quick way to identify potential problem areas.

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Take advantage of the automated modeling strategies 

 First Order Exponential Smoothing Models or Constant Model 

Moving Average Models 

Linear Regression Models and MLR Models 

Second Order Exponential Smoothing with Trend 

Holt-Winters Models 

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