Enterprise Sales and Operations Planning Tool
Press Release
Oliver Wight Continues to Innovate Sales & Operations Planning Process; Launches Enterprise Sales & Operations Planning Tool, Version 6.0
Oliver Wight, Inc., creator of the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process, through its innovative FastTrack SOP program enables users to achieve results faster. FastTrack SOP is a highly-focused, short-term, customized program that integrates demand and supply planning, inventory planning, new product development, financial planning, and strategic initiatives to improve business results in 90 days.
A critical element of FastTrack SOP is the Enterprise Sales & Operations Planning Tool (ESOPT), which provides the critical link between operational systems such as ERP, master scheduling and inventory management, and top-level planning. The primary change in the newly introduced ESOPT v6.0, is the conversion to the Microsoft SQL Server database that dramatically expands the ability to add features and functions, and improves network performance and stability. Two enhancements added in v6.0 are the Aggregation functionality and the ability to expand to a five year planning horizon, which is offered as an option.
ESOPT structures the data in Strategic Business Units, Planning Families and Subfamilies. “Version 6.0 enables users to add user-defined aggregation groups and attributes to the group and the planning subfamily may be assigned up to twelve groups,” explains J. Robert Tearnan, Oliver Wight principal. “Each of the groups can be aggregated and analyzed up to three levels at a time, providing virtually unlimited information views in Demand Review, Supply Review and Financial Analysis.”
He adds that ESOPT was designed and built by Oliver Wight’s manufacturing process experts as an integral presentation tool, not by software developers as a bolt-on to an ERP or SCM product, and has been refined over eight years through the use in more than 100 customer implementations.
The proprietary Oliver Wight FastTrack SOP program is designed to establish an effective integrated business management process. It consists of four main components: education, which comprise of public and/or individualized private courses; process design workshops, during which company teams are guided and assisted to create an effective S&OP process; proprietary software, similar to ESOPT V6.0; and coaching/mentoring and support, which is available on all aspects of the program throughout the 90 day implementation period.
For additional information about the Sales & Operations Planning process, FastTrack SOP, and Enterprise Sales & Operations Planning Tool version 6.0, contact Oliver Wight Americas, Inc. at 1-800-258-3862.
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About Oliver Wight Americas, Inc. Oliver Wight are leading business improvement specialists who educate, coach, and mentor people to lead and sustain change on the journey to business excellence and outstanding business performance. With offices throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific, Oliver Wight consultants are at the leading edge of management thinking and practice. For nearly 40 years, the Oliver Wight organization has worked with hundreds of companies worldwide to achieve Class A results.
For more information contact: Susan S. Hansen, Vice President, Operations and Marketing at 1-800-258-3862 X103.