Use cases

Start from the problem

You don't need our module names. Come in by the problem, by your job, or by how far ahead you are planning.

By challenge

Six things we hear most often

"Our planning meeting is an argument about whose spreadsheet is right."

Run S&OP

  1. pre-read
  2. simulate
  3. decide
  4. assign

The decisionWhich scenario the business commits to this week, and who owns it.

See the S&OP workflow

"We miss the promotions and we miss the season turning."

Improve the forecast

  1. clean history
  2. model
  3. author the event
  4. publish

The decisionWhat volume to plan for the promotion, before the order locks.

See how the forecast improves

"We waste short-dated stock in one depot while shorting a customer from another."

Balance stock

  1. project cover
  2. allocate
  3. adjust
  4. approve

The decisionWhich lot goes to which customer, while it still has a customer.

See expiry-aware allocation

"We discover the margin after the load has left."

Protect margin

  1. build the cost
  2. set the band
  3. quote
  4. approve

The decisionWhether this price can be committed, or needs an approval first.

See the pricing controls

"We fill every order, then find the best fruit went to the cheapest account."

Maximise value and service

  1. value each outlet
  2. grade the lots
  3. set the objective
  4. commit

The decisionWhere each extra tonne earns most, and what taking it would cost in service.

See the objective trade-off

"When she leaves, the planning leaves with her."

Preserve know-how

  1. capture the decision
  2. attach the assumption
  3. attach the outcome
  4. search it back

The decisionWhether to do again what was done last season, now that you can see how it went.

See how know-how is kept

By horizon

The same plan, five distances out

Every horizon ends in a decision. These are the ones the platform is built to carry.

  1. a year out

    The budget

    What we intend to sell, buy and grow.

    Plan
  2. a season out

    The programme

    Which growers, which varieties, which weeks.

    Plan
  3. a month out

    The gap

    Where supply will not cover demand, early enough to move.

    S&OP
  4. this week

    The commitment

    Which scenario the business runs, and who owns each action.

    Meet
  5. tomorrow

    The load

    Which lot goes to which customer, at what price.

    Allocate

By role

The question you carry into Monday

Demand planner
"Is this number defensible, and can I show why?"
ForecastPlan
Supply planner
"Which weeks can't be covered, and what can I do about them now?"
S&OPControl Tower
Commercial manager
"Can I commit this volume at this price without eroding the margin?"
PricingPlan
Operations and packhouse
"What has to be picked, packed and moved, and in what order?"
AllocateControl Tower
Finance
"Does the plan still add up to the budget, and where has it moved?"
PlanPricing
Head of supply chain
"Why did we decide that, and did it work?"
MemoryMeet

By category

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