CPG
Functionality of your business with OlapTeam
Supply chain planning and management
Workforce planning and management
Investment planning (including M&A planning)
Sales & Operations planning (S&OP)
Reporting
Financial planning and analysis (FP&A)
Demand/Assortment planning
Total quality management (TQM)
Strategic planning
Production planning and management
Maintenance management
Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
Project & Product portfolio management
Distribution channel management
Benefits
Empower data-driven decision-making in planning
• Evaluate potential effects of launching strategic initiatives, making investments, engaging in M&A, introducing new products, and expanding into new channels; conduct a comprehensive comparison of different scenarios.
• Stay ahead of evolving trends by gaining deep insights into consumer behavior.
• Create a digital twin of your planning process: simulate planning procedures in a virtual environment, gaining valuable insights, and optimizing your strategies before implementing them.
• Gain a competitive edge in distributor selection by effectively tracking their key performance indicators (KPIs), benchmarking distributor performance against industry standards, and conducting regular performance reviews.
• Benefit from a holistic view of performance organization-wide or by distinct country, plant, supplier, distribution channel, etc.
• Harness the potential of integrated BI-tools: leverage the power of interactive dashboards, drill-down reports, and data visualizations.
• Drive informed decisions through What-if analyses on pricing strategy, product portfolio adjustments, promotional campaign analysis, supply chain optimization, and market expansion.
• Consolidate all financial data and utilize one source of truth for making informed decisions.
• Enhance your HR planning, determining the optimal balance between full-time employees and contract staff.
Experience game-changing transformations business-wide using one tool
• Enable seamless collaboration and visual consistency among all stakeholders.
• Gain a holistic perspective of your business operations by implementing integrated business planning, which combines models and data from different departments.
• Establish a seamless workflow for budget approvals through efficient role distribution.
• Promote transparency by providing all departments, on any planning level, with access to a single reliable source of truth.
• Iteratively streamline the solution to related departments, reducing the amount of time traditionally spent on creating extensive statements of work.
Reap the benefits of financial planning automation
• Support the implementation of driver-based and zero-based budgeting.
• Forget about outdated plans, manual data input, and overnight loads; consolidate, amend, or approve plans and budgets in real-time.
• Employ embedded factor analysis tools for understanding the reasons for actuals vs. plan deviations.
• Compare different options for attracting capital.
• Seamlessly integrate with accounting solutions, ERP systems, and databases.
• Enhance the efficiency of your finance team by enabling them to create models on their own, reducing reliance on the IT department or expensive consultants.
Align business targets, financial plans, and operational strategies to enhance overall performance
• Set strategic goals based on external and internal information and cascade them down to the operational level and specific KPIs, ensuring full-fledged transparency along the way.
• Match sales projections with the constraints of production resources, inventory levels, supplier capabilities, and the supply chain.
• Optimize production mix and resource utilization by leveraging mathematical optimization methods or machine learning algorithms.
• Increase efficiency by engaging all concerned parties into a unified planning process.
Stay ahead of the curve and respond swiftly to dynamic market changes
• Forecast the potential outcome of applying strategic initiatives or market changes using what-if analysis.
• Focus on strategies that yield the best results: Assess the efficiency of promotion activities by analyzing ROI and other metrics; adjust sales and production plans accordingly.
• Collect and analyze data from various marketing channels, such as social media, email campaigns, and website analytics.
• Review product mix and pricing policy down to any SKU after analyzing their profitability, production, and sales constraints.
• Make manual adjustments to consolidated plans whenever needed with no background technical experience.
• Adjust digital twin models to changes in your business operations.
Unlock the full potential of your supply chain performance
• Improve process efficiency by streamlining materials and finished product flow while optimizing order distribution and delivery options.
• Enhance cost analysis and logistics management by planning, calculating, and evaluating delivery costs, packaging requirements, and the optimal shipment quantities per direction.
• Optimize inventory management by efficiently calculating and managing raw material and component stocks.
• Develop in-depth analytical reports that cover various aspects of production and delivery, including logistics costs, procurement, transportation geography, investment plans, and more.