Copyright 2009 Demand Planning Consultancy b.v.
Specialists in Forecasting and Planning
for Apparel, Sportswear and Footwear industry
for Apparel, Sportswear and Footwear industry
Fashion S&OP that works
Many fashion companies have a short term planning focus (3 to 6 months before delivery) to support the buying decision. This short term horizon and focus on buying accuracy often leads to an adhoc process with lots of operational issues: shortages, late deliveries, excess stock and late addition of specials. These issues have a direct impact on turnover and margin on the short turn, and more important customer satisfaction on the long term.
More and more companies realize that they have to improve planning accuracy further upstream (6-12 months before delivery) and across functional borders to further improve the performance. The companies that try to improve their supply chain and planning processes often struggle. Organizational structure (i.e. functional silo’s), underdeveloped disciplines (i.e. operations & control), or inadequate tools and reports, slow down and frustrate processes to improve and to implement a long term Sales & Operation Planning (S&OP) process.
Based on many years of experience in the field of Planning and Forecasting in the fashion industry, Demand Planning Consultancy has developed a Fashion S&OP concept emphasizing the relation between Collection Planning, Finance, Demand and Supply. Where the “regular” S&OP is aiming at the optimization of supply and demand to reach financial plans, the Fashion S&OP integrates the collection process or merchandizing process as this is a driving element for success. Demand Planning Consultancy has developed a proven approach to support the gradual implementation of this S&OP process. Together with your colleagues we identify the S&OP elements and the cohesion between these elements. Next we identify the most rewarding link(s) or element(s) and define how to improve or implement the improvement. This improvement can be a change in process or a new methodology, an excel tool, a standard software tool, training, etc. We implement our solutions hands-on and side by side to ensure knowledge transfer is optimized. We take one step at the time. But the most valuable step first.
More and more companies realize that they have to improve planning accuracy further upstream (6-12 months before delivery) and across functional borders to further improve the performance. The companies that try to improve their supply chain and planning processes often struggle. Organizational structure (i.e. functional silo’s), underdeveloped disciplines (i.e. operations & control), or inadequate tools and reports, slow down and frustrate processes to improve and to implement a long term Sales & Operation Planning (S&OP) process.
Based on many years of experience in the field of Planning and Forecasting in the fashion industry, Demand Planning Consultancy has developed a Fashion S&OP concept emphasizing the relation between Collection Planning, Finance, Demand and Supply. Where the “regular” S&OP is aiming at the optimization of supply and demand to reach financial plans, the Fashion S&OP integrates the collection process or merchandizing process as this is a driving element for success. Demand Planning Consultancy has developed a proven approach to support the gradual implementation of this S&OP process. Together with your colleagues we identify the S&OP elements and the cohesion between these elements. Next we identify the most rewarding link(s) or element(s) and define how to improve or implement the improvement. This improvement can be a change in process or a new methodology, an excel tool, a standard software tool, training, etc. We implement our solutions hands-on and side by side to ensure knowledge transfer is optimized. We take one step at the time. But the most valuable step first.
Demand Planning Consultancy b.v.