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by David R. Brousell, MA Editorial Staff, Jeff Moad, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Tuesday, July 04, 2006 1:00:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    Two major applications suppliers have been at work on new products for the sales and operations planning process. SAP AG has launched a program to develop a new sales & operations planning (S&OP) application that will leverage the company's NetWeaver technologies and Enterprise Services Architecture to support business processes that cross functional boundaries. Meanwhile, Cognos last month introduced what it calls a Sales and Operations Planning Blueprint. In Cognos's parlance, a blueprint is a pre-defined data, process, and policy model based on best practices in enterprise planning and financial management and control. The S&OP blueprint will provide planning, metrics, and reporting capabilities. Paul Hoy, Cognos's director of manufacturing industry solutions, said in an interview that the blueprint will reconcile sales and demand planning with production planning and constraints, and will allow management to make decisions based on tradeoffs among manufacturing, purchasing, operations, finance, sales, and marketing. [Click to continue] |
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