9 Symptoms Your Forecasting, S&OP Process has Outgrown Spreadsheets

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Top 9 SymptomsYour S&OP Process has

Outgrown Spreadsheets

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92% of all companies still use spreadsheets as a primary tool in their S&OP process.1

1 Source: Supply Chain Insights, LLC, Sales & Operations Study (Jan-May, 2015)




Having seen hundreds of customers go from spreadsheets to a centralized planning system, here are the top 9 reasons John Galt Solutions has uncovered that make spreadsheets hard to deal with.




Too Many Planners

You have multiple demand planners working from the same spreadsheet causing version control and sharing issues.

1




Too Many Stakeholders

You have a lot of people that need input into or need to see the results of your planning process, making it difficult to manage with spreadsheets.

2




Geographically Dispersed Team

Your planning team is in multiple locations, making it difficult to manage input remotely and asynchronously.

3




Too Much, Too Complex Data

You have too much data for Excel. Your pivot tables freeze, or you have to erase old data to make room for new (losing history). You have trouble inserting and lining up data from different sources and modeling it all together.

4




Cannot Incorporate Real-Time Data

By the time you get your POS data into the right spreadsheet, in the right format, it is obsolete.

5




Spend 80% of Time Administering Data vs. Analyzing it

More than half of your planner’s time is spent gathering and manipulating data, rather than uncovering key insights.

6




Cannot Measure Value Add

You cannot save your forecast at every point in the process and analyze it over time to understand where value is or is not added.

7




Difficulty Tracking Assumptions

You have no reliable and efficient method for tracking changes to the forecast and the assumptions behind those changes from different parties.

8




Hard to Integrate Demand & Supply

It is difficult to link your forecast to procurement, production and inventory. You are not optimizing your operations as well as you should.

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These are just some of the symptoms you may be experiencing if you are trying to run your demand planning or S&OP process with spreadsheets alone. You are not alone in this situation, or the move to a centralized system. We have successfully helped hundreds of companies make the transition.

You are not Alone




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With the right system, you can alleviate all these symptoms and even achieve excellent ROI from increased sales and operational improvements.




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symptoms, as well as how a central planning system addresses these issues

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