What It Does:

• Allocate annual budgets and targets while creating optimal, integrated and aggregated plans for product-market-wise sales, plant-warehouse-market transport allocations (distribution logistics), end-of-month inventory stocks at plants and warehouses, production and procurement at plants for a multi-product and multi-tier supply chain in order to meet forecasted demands over 12-month horizon; In other words, budget planning is a 12-month S&OP
• Meet annual growth targets and maximize business profit margin subject to meeting customer serviceability targets, achieving high utilization of assets, constraints on availability plant capacities, logistics and warehouse capacities, and priorities of top management, sales, marketing, logistics, and production teams
• Run large scale mixed-integer linear programming model with millions of variables in quick time
• Facilitate ‘what-if’ analysis with multiple scenarios
• Validate input data, resolve infeasibilities, and display violations of demand, serviceability, capacity and other constraints
• Report performance metrics such as revenue growth, contribution margin (EBIDTA), demand fulfillment rate, cost-to-serve, budget utilization, utilization of production and logistics assets
• Align sales and marketing, logistics, production, and procurement teams with common business objectives and facilitate inter-functional collaboration