Background

Astix Sales & operations planning and Forecasting is an integrated business management process through which the executive/leadership team continually achieves focus, alignment and synchronization among all functions of the organization. Astix S&OP includes an updated forecast that leads to a sales plan, production plan, inventory plan, customer lead time plan, new product development plan, strategic initiative plan and resulting financial plan. It routinely reviews customer demand and supply resources and “re-plans” quantitatively across an agreed rolling horizon. The re-planning process focuses on changes from the previously agreed sales and operations plan. While it helps the management team to understand how the company achieved its current level of performance, its primary focus is on future actions and anticipated results.

Features

  • Demand-supply balancing
  • "What if" simulations
  • S&OP process support
  • Common information repository
  • Unit and currency synchronization
  • Collaboration network
  • Event alerts
  • Key performance indicator measurement

Benefits

  • Improved customer services
  • Maximize profitability
  • Better Decision making and Better financial plan
  • Reduced out of  stock
  • Improved new product launch
  • Improved promotions effectiveness
  • Optimize materials procurement
  • Labour productivity improvement
  • Fixed cost optimization
  • Inventory Reduction
  • Place the right products in the right channel
  • Eliminate bias to improve forecast accuracy

Capability

  • Automatically generate an optimal tactical plan down to the bill of materials (BOM) level
  • Integration with your existing ERP data warehouse
  • Multi-period planning horizon
  • Scenario analyzer allows you to systematically assess multiple future scenarios
  • Complex BOM exploration
  • Visualize your plan, timelines and bill of materials to correct bottlenecks andreduce excesses