When your business commands 70% of the global grooming market and generates over $7 billion in revenue across 180 countries, your monthly S&OP cycle isn’t just a process — it’s the heartbeat of the business. For P&G Grooming, that heartbeat was slowing under the weight of Excel-based reconciliation, regional inconsistencies, and a consolidation process that consumed weeks of planner time without adding value.

So the company partnered with Solvoyo to digitize and standardize its monthly Global S&OP process on a single platform. The result is a global demand–supply reconciliation cycle compressed to a single week — with consistent master data across all 180 countries and no Excel in sight.

8 Regions, 180 Countries, and One Error-Prone Spreadsheet Process

P&G Grooming’s monthly Global S&OP process spanned 8 regions, each consolidating demand and supply plans in its own way. The reconciliation itself lived in Excel — manual, error-prone, and painfully slow. Master data wasn’t aligned across regions, so planners spent much of the cycle chasing discrepancies instead of resolving genuine demand–supply gaps.

The consequences compounded month after month:

• An Excel-based reconciliation process where a single formula error could ripple through global numbers
• No standardization across the 8 regions, making regional inputs difficult to compare or trust
• A long consolidation process that added no analytical value — only elapsed time
• Master data misalignment that undermined confidence in every downstream number

For a business of this scale, the cost wasn’t just planner hours. It was decision latency: by the time global numbers were reconciled, the market had already moved.

P&G Grooming Partnered with Solvoyo to Digitize Global S&OP

Partnering with Solvoyo, P&G Grooming rebuilt its Global S&OP process as a digital, standards-based workflow on a single platform — implemented in just 9 months.

The transformation began with Master Data Management, establishing consistent, standardized master data across all 180 countries. This was the foundation: without one shared definition of products, markets, and hierarchies, no amount of process automation would produce numbers anyone could trust.

Next came Demand and Supply Consolidation, replacing eight regional spreadsheet processes with structured, automated data flows into the platform. Each region’s inputs now arrive in a common format, on a common cadence, with validation built in.

The heart of the solution is automated Demand–Supply Reconciliation. What was once a manual, multi-week Excel exercise now runs on the platform — surfacing gaps, imbalances, and exceptions automatically so planners spend their time resolving issues, not finding them.

Finally, Global S&OP Reporting gives leadership a single, always-current view of demand, inventory, and supply worldwide — turning the platform into the corporate memory for every S&OP cycle.

From Weeks of Consolidation to Reconciliation in a Week

With the platform live, P&G Grooming’s monthly global reconciliation now completes in a single week. The gains reach well beyond speed:

• A single digital platform maintains global demand, inventory, and supply visibility for all stakeholders
• Consistent, standardized master data across 180 countries — aligned once, maintained continuously
• Automated reconciliation across organizations — no more Excel, no more manual cross-checking
• Corporate memory in a digital platform, preserving every cycle’s assumptions, decisions, and outcomes
• Rapid know-how transfer among regions, as standardized processes let best practices travel instantly across all 8 regions

The monthly S&OP cycle shifted from a data-wrangling exercise to a decision-making forum — which is what S&OP was always meant to be.

What Does This Mean for You?

P&G Grooming’s journey shows that global S&OP doesn’t have to mean weeks of spreadsheet consolidation and reconciliation meetings about whose numbers are right. When master data is standardized, consolidation is automated, and reconciliation runs on a single platform, the S&OP conversation moves from “what are the numbers?” to “what do we do about them?”

If your planning cycle still runs on regional spreadsheets and manual roll-ups, the path P&G Grooming took is repeatable — foundation first, then consolidation, then automated reconciliation.

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