Sales & Operations Planning:
align your sales, operations and finance with the best of Anaplan
With Anaplan and Beyond Plans, your S&OP process becomes collaborative and scenario-driven. Secure your forecasts, optimize inventory and align Sales, Supply Chain and Finance through a cloud platform and expert support.
Why Beyond Plans?
Implementing an S&OP process is not limited to a single tool. Beyond Plans combines consulting, Anaplan integration, and team adoption to build integrated planning. We help sales, supply chain, and finance teams manage in real time.
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP):
the essentials in brief
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) aims to align sales, operations, and finance. With Beyond Plans and Anaplan, you can move from siloed planning to an integrated process that aligns with your strategic ambitions: improved forecast accuracy, faster decision-making, and supply chain optimization.
Context
Fragmented forecasts, lack of visibility and slow trade-offs hinder performance.
Solution
Anaplan + Beyond Plans: cloud S&OP platform, business consulting and Lemon Learning adoption.
Key benefits
Increased forecast accuracy, optimized capabilities, improved cross-functional collaboration.
From siloed forecasts to integrated supply chain planning
Many companies manage their S&OP in silos: scattered forecasts, late consolidation, and lengthy trade-offs. The effects: forecasting bias, poor customer service, and high logistics costs. Without an integrated process, sales, production, and finance remain misaligned.
Our solution for your S&OP
Beyond Plans deploys an S&OP solution on Anaplan enhanced with business consulting. We connect Sales, Supply Chain and Finance within a single cloud platform. Forecast accuracy, what-if scenarios, inventory optimization and Lemon Learning adoption are integrated.
The benefits of S&OP for supply chain and finance
With Anaplan and Beyond Plans, your forecasts become more accurate and your biases decrease. You improve customer service (OTIF, fill rate) and optimize your capabilities. Finance, sales, and operations finally share a single, reliable view.
About Anaplan for your S&OP
Anaplan is the leading cloud platform for integrated planning. It structures a complete S&OP process: demand plan consensus, supply planning, capacity planning, what-if scenarios and multi-entity ERP/BI integration.
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) FAQ
Are you considering structuring your S&OP process? Here are the answers to the most frequently asked questions: differences with IBP, monthly cycle process, deployment time, and ERP/MES/WMS integration.
S&OP vs. IBP: What's the difference, and when should you switch?
S&OP aligns sales, operations, and finance on a tactical horizon. IBP (Integrated Business Planning) broadens the scope to long-term strategy, including product portfolio, investments, and full P&L. Organizations move toward IBP when they seek to connect operational and strategic planning.
How does a monthly S&OP cycle work (steps & roles)?
An S&OP cycle includes demand review, supply adjustment, variance analysis and an executive committee for decision-making. Sales, Supply Chain and Finance are involved, with real-time simulations and S&OP KPIs (forecast accuracy, service level, inventory).
How long does it take to deploy an S&OP solution, and what data prerequisites are required?
An initial scope can be operational within 12 weeks. Prerequisites include reliable data on sales, supply, capacity and inventory. Beyond Plans supports scoping, ERP/BI integration and governance to secure your data flows.
How to connect ERP/MES/WMS and ensure data reliability?
Anaplan offers native connectors and APIs for ERP, MES, and WMS. Beyond Plans configures flows, secures data, and ensures quality. The result: a consolidated and automated S&OP process that does not rely on Excel.
S&OP demo
Discover how Anaplan and Beyond Plans structure a collaborative S&OP process. In 30 minutes, we'll show you how to align sales, supply chain, and finance through scenario simulation, forecast accuracy, and real-time arbitration workflows.
Discover all our use cases
Beyond S&OP, Beyond Plans deploys Anaplan in a wide range of scenarios: budget preparation, P&L modeling, financial consolidation, cash flow forecasting, workforce planning, and more. Each use case illustrates the value of connected, collaborative planning.