S&OP Software: One Live Plan Instead of Spreadsheets

1 week

Global S&OP cycle at P&G Grooming, across 180 countries

8-12x

Faster daily/weekly planning (predictability)

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“Solvoyo’s S&OP platform gives both the regions and the HQ the ability to maintain a supply plan harmonized with demand and inventory investment targets. We now identify supply plan discrepancies proactively. Along the way, we eliminated Excel from the process and simultaneously increased process speed and planner efficiency across the enterprise.”

VPVP, Product SupplyFortune 100, Global CPG

Solvoyo Platform

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Unified Intelligence for Enterprise Planning

One Version of the Truth

Demand, supply, production, inventory, and financial data sit on a single platform, so the S&OP meeting spends its time on trade-offs.

Solvoyo consolidates inputs from every planning function into one reconciled view that every participant sees before the meeting begins: the statistical baseline from demand planning, commercial adjustments from sales and marketing, financial budget targets, production capacity constraints, inventory investment plans, and supplier commitments. Spreadsheet S&OP breaks on version control. Sales, finance, and operations each keep separate files built on different data pulls, and the meeting spends its time reconciling numbers. Solvoyo gives every function, region, and planning horizon one number on one model. At P&G Grooming, a global S&OP in one week across 180 countries reconciles demand and supply.

Scenario-Based Consensus Planning

Compare the demand, supply, and financial consequences of every strategic option before the meeting, then authorize the preferred plan into execution from the same platform.

Generate and compare multiple planning scenarios at once: volume upside and downside cases, new product launch timing options, capacity investment alternatives, promotional investment configurations, supplier risk contingency plans, and market entry or exit decisions. Each scenario produces a complete demand, inventory, production, and financial output that leadership can evaluate side by side. Store, recall, and share scenarios across functions without rebuilding them in separate tools. Authorize the preferred scenario straight into supply planning and inventory planning, so the consensus plan from the S&OP meeting drives replenishment, production, and procurement the following day.

Financial Reconciliation & KPI Tracking

Measure S&OP performance on a single dashboard updated in real time: revenue, margin, inventory investment, service level, and forecast accuracy.

Track whether the S&OP process delivers what it promised: statistical and consensus forecast accuracy by product family and region, inventory turns and days of supply against targets, production schedule adherence, supplier OTIF rates, and the revenue and margin effect of plan deviations. Gaps between the authorized plan and actual performance show up as exceptions before they become period-end surprises. The variance analysis feeds directly into the next S&OP cycle, so forecast accuracy improves with each round. Solvoyo’s Customer Success engineering team co-owns your business KPIs from day one.

Always-Current Data Foundation

Sit on top of your existing systems and connect through API integrations, so every S&OP decision runs on live operational data.

Solvoyo connects to your existing ERP, WMS, MES, demand planning tools, and financial systems through API integrations. It continuously ingests confirmed purchase orders, production work orders, current inventory positions, and the latest demand forecasts, and the systems of record other functions depend on stay in place. Every participant in the S&OP process sees the same number from the same live data before the meeting begins. Nobody pulls data by hand, and nobody decides on information that aged out three days ago.

Solvi: From Insights to Actions

Solvi, Solvoyo’s AI planning agent, continuously monitors supply, demand, inventory, and financial performance across every horizon. It surfaces pre-built scenario comparisons and prioritized resolution recommendations, so S&OP meetings can spend their time deciding what to do about the numbers.

Solvoyo Differentiators

Autonomous Decision Making

Executes high-quality supply chain decisions with little to no planner intervention.

95%+ User Acceptance

Drives recommendations planners trust enough to accept and execute at scale.

Optimization + AI + Heuristics

Combines mathematical rigor and machine intelligence to outperform rule-based planning.

Real-World Constraint Modeling

Builds real-world operational constraints directly into every decision the system makes.

Network Wide Objective Solving

Optimizes cost, service, inventory, and feasibility across the full supply chain at once.

Unified Data and Execution

Connects data, planning, diagnostics, and action in one system built for execution.

See it run on your own data

See what one live S&OP plan looks like on your own data. Solvoyo is supply chain decision automation: the plan you approve flows straight into replenishment and production.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is S&OP, and why does it matter for supply chain performance?

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) is the cross-functional process where leadership reconciles demand expectations, supply constraints, production capacity and financial targets into one authorized operating plan. It matters because supply chain performance failures (stock-outs, excess inventory, missed OTIF commitments, unplanned production stoppages) almost always trace back to a mismatch between what one function planned and what another executed. When S&OP works, every function works from the same demand signal, the same inventory policy and the same capacity commitment, and the gap between plan and outcome narrows with each cycle.

What is the difference between S&OP and IBP (Integrated Business Planning)?

S&OP reconciles operational plans (demand, supply, production and inventory) over a rolling 12-18 month horizon, and IBP widens that scope to financial plans, strategic initiatives and capital investment decisions. IBP ties the supply chain operating plan to the P&L, the balance sheet and the long-range business plan. In practice the difference is often maturity: organizations that have mastered operational S&OP grow into IBP on the same platform and process. They add financial reconciliation, portfolio management and strategic scenario planning. Solvoyo supports the operational S&OP core and the financial and strategic extensions that define IBP.

How does Solvoyo’s S&OP platform differ from a traditional S&OP spreadsheet process?

Solvoyo replaces the spreadsheet cycle with one continuously updated platform where every functional input is visible at once. Conflicts surface automatically before the meeting. Scenarios that took days are generated in minutes, and the authorized plan flows directly into operational execution without re-entry. A spreadsheet process has each function build its own plan, submit it on a defined schedule and wait for a central team to reconcile the conflicting numbers. That typically consumes 2 to 3 weeks of every monthly cycle, and the consensus plan is already stale by the time it is authorized.

How long does an S&OP cycle take?

In a spreadsheet process, reconciling the conflicting numbers typically takes 2 to 3 weeks of every monthly cycle. P&G Grooming reconciles demand and supply across 180 countries in a one-week global S&OP. Solvoyo keeps every functional input on one live model, so conflicts surface before the meeting and scenarios that took days are generated in minutes.

What KPIs should a well-functioning S&OP process track, and how does Solvoyo support them?

A well-functioning S&OP process tracks forecast quality, inventory performance and operational execution. Forecast accuracy, measured at the product family and regional level, shows whether the demand plan behind the whole process is reliable. Inventory turns and days of supply measure whether the inventory policy authorized in S&OP delivers the working capital efficiency the financial plan requires. Production schedule adherence checks whether capacity commitments made in S&OP are honored in execution. Supplier OTIF and customer service levels test whether the supply plan delivers the customer experience the demand plan assumed. Solvoyo tracks all of these on a single dashboard, updated continuously against the authorized plan, and feeds variance analysis into each new planning cycle.