Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) Software Solution - e2open
Sales and operations planning made simple
Align your internal teams, external partners, and financial goals using one intuitive solution that empowers you to create consistently profitable, execution-ready plans. Transform traditional planning and inefficient planning processes by leveraging e2open Sales and Operations Planning to simplify collaboration and accelerate consensus.
Collaboration: always critical but never easy
Planning can be disjointed and disconnected
Multiple stakeholders, shifting demands, and fluctuating supply can make planning feel like a juggling act. Without the right sales and operations planning (S&OP) process and current high-quality data, companies often see suboptimal outcomes due to knowledge gaps, silos, and incentive conflicts. Including external trading partner data in the S&OP process to improve demand and supply visibility is another concern. Once finalized, the next challenge is to seamlessly push the plan into execution and monitor performance to keep everything on track.
Easily bring your plans and people together
Modernize your supply chain with profitable plans that balance demand, supply, and financial goals.
Accelerate decision making
Visibility and decision support help you make informed decisions faster and with greater flexibility.
Integrate with sales and finance
Integration with sales and financial processes lets you establish a cross-functional workflow.
Shorten S&OP cycle times
By automating data gathering and processing, the application helps converge planning and execution.
Improve forecast accuracy
Machine learning algorithms help to produce more accurate forecasts and improve planner productivity.
Model opportunities and risks
Strategic what-if scenario analyses enable you to model revenue opportunities, volatility risks, and supply alternatives.
Simplify collaboration
Stakeholders can easily create consensus demand forecasts and reconcile constrained or unconstrained plans with financial goals.
Resources
[Suite Profiles
**Planning Application Suite**
Confidently take the next step forward to better plan your business. Wherever you are in your supply chain journey, e2open’s strategic platform has the breadth to meet your immediate needs and the depth to grow with you.
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[Data Sheets
**Sales and Operations Planning**
Organizations confidently balance demand and supply with financial goals by aligning internal and even external stakeholders using e2open’s Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) application. Powerful what-if simulations reveal the financial and service impacts of tradeoff decisions, enabling a consistently profitable response.
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[Data Sheets
**Demand Planning**
Supply chain management begins with demand planning, and getting demand right is essential for maximizing service and revenue while minimizing costs. Using automation and machine learning algorithms, e2open’s Demand Planning application creates the most accurate forecasts possible. Organizations can then understand, anticipate and shape demand by engaging all stakeholders in a collaborative process.
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15--23%
Inventory reduction
3--4%
Margin improvement
50--54%
Reduction in planning cycle times
Testimonials
"The complexity of our business and operating our supply chain is increasing as we see significant growth and diversity of our business across the globe. We’re excited to partner with e2open to ensure we stay abreast of the ever-changing regulations, leverage global trade and compliance best practices and further the digital transformation of our supply chain. The new platform provides best-in class, time-critical compliance to improve our operations, allowing us to better serve our global customers."
Air France® Industries
Head of Customs and Trade Compliance
Air France® Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance
We know what stock we have in the channel, is it healthy, what our average days of stock are, do we ship in more or do we reduce what we are shipping? We are really in control of channel data.
Mailin Boeker Acer
With the e2open system, processes that used to take a whole calendar year now happen in a matter of days.
Vinny Moscatello
Avon
Working with e2open enables us to better fulfill short supplier lead times, reduce inventory levels, and dramatically improve inventory turns—all while lowering the total cost of ownership to our customers.
Celestica
E2open compliance capabilities are very important for the Geodis Supply Chain Optimization compliance risk management program. The digital information is key to providing timely and accurate visibility, streamlining our compliance check processes, improving their efficiency and reliability. We’re now very well-positioned for the next wave of growth and ready to offer our customers more value than ever before.
Laurent Rosa GEODIS
The e2open capabilities through supplier collaboration have enabled Jabil to standardize and digitalize our forecast communication process for all suppliers, providing increased optionality for more efficient collaboration. This is undoubtedly providing us with a competitive advantage, ensuring we have near real time visibility into forecast status with our suppliers and helping us make more reliable commitments to our customers.
Alan Brown
Vice President of Supply Chain, Technology and Transformation
Jabil
By implementing an integrated international purchasing system, we have ensured that Leggett & Platt is maximizing its efforts to conduct its international procurement activities in a compliant manner.
John Wainwright
Leggett & Platt, Inc.
The vision for us is that the core activities of transportation should be running independently and smoothly without any interaction from ourselves so that we can really focus on the additional services that we offer to our customers.
Sebastian Poehl
Head of Global Business Solutions
Leschaco
Having visibility to the supply chain gives us and our suppliers the opportunity to plan. We talk about planning its capacity, its resources, its material—and it helps with the cost as well by having all those elements tied together.
L'Oreal
We want to achieve world-class logistics, with teams able to leverage the best tools to overcome todays and future challenges. The benefits we are anticipating by using e2open’s TMS tool for intercontinental logistics are threefold: standardization, reduction of logistics costs, and end-to-end visibility. This should give us a competitive advantage in the market.
Dan Jianu
Logistics Operations Manager
Michelin
"E2open has become our core supply chain platform, giving us all our critical information in one place and enabling true collaboration. Within weeks of implementing Long Tail, we reduced overdue POs from over a hundred to just two—freeing our buyers from transactional work so they can focus on improving lead times, supplier engagement, and delivering more reliable dates to our customers."
Nishith Mohnot
Senior Manager of Business Systems
QSC
We consider e2open global trade software as a game changer. It has enabled us to gain in efficiency, follow the evolution of trade rules timely and accurately, and exploit the necessary free trade agreements. It enhanced our overall competitiveness.
Jean-Paul Verschoor
Origin Responsible Manager
Renault Group
Centralizing and automating our export control processes, and particularly our trade compliance, not only reduces risk for Sandvik, but opens new opportunities to do more business worldwide.
Sandvik
"We now have full visibility and control—from classification and RPS screening to qualifying for free trade agreements. We can even see in advance where we avoid import duties, giving us a direct financial benefit that we can reinvest in other areas."
Edwin Tolsma
Trade Compliance, Global Domains and IT Lead
Signify
With e2open’s Global Trade Management, we’ve transformed a chaotic, manual review process into an automated workflow that approves cases in under a minute, filters out low‑risk transactions, and gives us confidence that every shipment and download complies with global export and sanctions laws. The time saved now lets our team focus on auditing, partnering with supply chain, and ensuring our products are correctly classified worldwide—while still processing around 1,000 orders a week within eight hours.
Sophos
Sarah Masessa
Global Partner Platform and Communications Manager
VMware by Broadcom