QAD helps companies adopt and use S&OP by facilitating better communication and planning across the company. Your S&OP approach is simplified by offering the following key capabilities:
QAD DSCP provides management with optimal decision support for the entire supply chain. Scorecards and dashboards provide “at a glance” information about business performance across the enterprise.
The solution is engineered to support finance stakeholders which is evident by the support for:
Financial KPIs, such as ROCE, EBITDA and EPS
Planned income statement reports for trading expenses and revenue
Planned balance sheet “impact” including cash, payables and receivables
Capital planning and budgeting
Task management provides your organization the ability to generate a set of repeatable and auditable tasks for each S&OP planning cycle. This ensures the process gets executed exactly the same way every planning cycle irrespective of external events.
A common planning horizon that transcends fiscal years can be defined while still providing fiscal year based metrics, alerts and dashboards. A unique feature is the ability to plan over an extended planning horizon (usually 18 months) while also providing a fiscal year view to the finance stakeholders.
You can facilitate clear and formal collaboration and cross-functional communication across your business. The solution ensures a company-wide vision shared by all business stakeholders. Collaboration techniques provide a social capability to comment, and share details of the plans or raise risks, tasks, assumptions and issues for stakeholder follow-up.
Demand data is synchronized with demand planning and supply data including Production Planning, Distribution Planning and Procurement Planning solutions. All three solutions share a common data model which reduces the need for integration, double entry, or additional master data ownership, and ultimately reducing the cost of ownership.
The solution provides a “closed-loop” with operational plans. S&OP plans need to align in two directions; firstly with executive goals and secondly with operations to ensure the decisions of the S&OP are put into motion.
Due to the close synchronization between S&OP and QAD DSCP, the solution provides a unique capability to reconcile S&OP planning decisions with the operational demand and supply plans.
Plan for the Risk. The best way to measure the impact of your risk is to model it. What if there is a cost increase from a trading country imposing trading tariffs? What if there is a short term supply constraint due to a natural disaster? QAD provides a comprehensive end-to-end scenario management process to model different scenarios, and uses balanced scorecards to identify that plan that best deals with a given situation.
Achieve the Desired Outcome. Not every intention turns out the way it was intended. Scenario management provides the ability to try alternate initiatives to re-align the plan with the corporate objectives. The impact of every plan change can be measured in terms of adherence to corporate objectives. The alternate what-if scenarios are crucial input into the pre-S&OP meeting for stakeholder consideration.
Cloud deployment. QAD DSCP is available in the QAD Cloud or AWS public cloud. Both options provide a secure, reliable, and extensive cloud infrastructure.
Mobility. The user experience supports Web, mobile and touch screen user interfaces.
Analytics. As IoT and machine learning deliver a greater number of data points, supply chain solutions must have a best-in-class capability to translate data into trends and decision grade analytics. QAD DSCP seamlessly embeds capability from Qlik, a leading business analytics provider. This provides an intelligent and intuitive user experience supporting responsive and accurate decision making.
In-Memory. QAD DSCP uses a highly scalable, rapid in-memory data model enabling real time simulation planning and effective decision support.
