In a recent blog post, John Westerveld discussed how the right sales and operations planning (S&OP) software can help companies streamline the S&OP planning cycle and reduce it from weeks to mere days. A business management process that helps firms ascertain optimal manufacturing output levels, S&OP plays a key role in balancing supply and demand, avoiding waste, enhancing top-line revenues, and optimizing production resources.
Enabling the performance improvements that Westerveld, product marketing manager at Ottawa, Ontario-based Kinaxis, outlined in his blog requires a single system that provides global...