Turn complexity into clarity with connected planning
Supply Chain Planning is more important than ever
During the past decade, supply chain complexity has grown dramatically, making visibility, control and proactive decision-making more important than ever. At Optilon, we understand these challenges – and the need to manage both the increasing complexity and a constantly shifting supply chain landscape.
Our solution to this: Optilon Collaboration – a platform that makes your supply chain planning visible, collaborative, and truly decision‑driven across the entire organization. It aligns the business and transforms planning from a planner‑centric operation into a set of shared, business‑critical processes.
Providing insights and data driven decision making
With Optilon Collaboration, key stakeholders are able to engage with supply chain data that before was hidden in the detailed planning tools. By allowing users to efficiently interact with supply chain plans, Optilon Collaboration provides insights and supports data-driven decision making across your organization. The result?
Supply chain planning transformed into true business values and capabilities that improves service, reduces cost and increases profit through enhanced organizational alignment.
Streamline your S&OP Process and stay focused on decision making
Successful Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) is built on collaboration. A key element of an effective S&OP process is bringing sales, supply chain, finance,and management together around a single source of trusted planning data. When decisions are based on shared information, they become actionable,strategy aligns with day-to-day operations, and the organization is better equipped to respond to change.
Optilon Collaboration supports your S&OP process through a shared data model and a flexible platform that adapts to your planning maturity. Whether you’reestablishing a structured S&OP process or evolving towards Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Optilon Collaboration provides the visibility, governance, andcollaboration needed to turn plans into decisions—and decisions into execution.
Analyze and identify actions
- Current forecast, expected growth, trend and comparison to budget
- Forecast accuracy and potential bias
- Available capacities vs expected need
- Inventory and service development
- Manage forecast and capacity scenarios
Assign, track and escalate
- Assign tasks and actions to stakeholders
- Catalog potential changes on the market and their effect on the forecast
- Document made assumptions and identified risks and constraints
- Track decisions and assignees
Execute
- Make forecast operational and carry through agreed sales activities
- Implement capacity changes or inform stakeholders of capacity shortages
- Act on risks and escalations according to made decisions
Go beyond ordinary Demand Planning
The best forecasts are not created by a demand planner alone—they are built collaboratively. Sales teams understand their customers. Product managers understand the portfolio. Planners understand demand patterns. Bringing these perspectives together creates a forecast that is more accurate, more transparent, up-to-date and better aligned with the business. Optilon Collaboration supports this by:
- One platform for all key stakeholder perspectives
- Visualize data to analyse growth, budget, forecast accuracy or any other data relevant to your sales
- Allow your sales department to give input to the sales forecast directly
- Design your process to ensure key people can view and potentially approve up-to-date sales forecast figures
- Track and decide on potential changes on the market that could affect your sales
- Monitor new and discontinued products to ensure your supply is adjusted in time
- Manage and compare forecast versions and scenarios to build a resilient supply chain
Cross functionalize your Supply Planning
A reliable demand plan is only valuable if the supply organization can execute it. Effective supply planning provides visibility into future requirements, capacity utilization, inventory projections, and procurement needs, allowing stakeholders to proactively balance service, cost, and operational efficiency. Optilon Collaboration supports this by:
- Visualize the forecast converted into an expected outflow from each warehouse in your network
- Review capacities and identify gaps for future planning
- Analyze inventory trends and future projections in combination with achieved service levels
- Consolidate data from different system of records, algorithmic or AI engines, and planning tools for a complete overview
- Verify assumptions and convert decisions into actions based on identified risks and escalations
- Define constraints - visualize, understand and communicate the impacts
- Assess the outcome of different forecast scenarios against available capacity
Shared data and aligned stakeholders builds a smarter supply chain
Optilon Collaboration provides a common platform for your company where everyone can access the same, up to date, data – a single source of truth. Planners, managers and leadership are provided with the ability to, through shared insights, take executable decisions in line with reality. A common overview eliminates silos and ensures that decisions across your organization are not only faster, but consistently aligned with your supply chain strategy and constraints.
Sales/Key Account Manager
Contribute your market insight directly to the sales forecast. Enhance customer satisfaction by increasing availability and following up on forecast improvement, accuracy, and bias.
Product Category Manager
Gain control by tracking product introductions and discontinuations. Review sales performance, trends and gap to budget to monitor your progress and stay on target.
S&OP Manager
Coordinate the S&OP process in a structured framework and track actions, decisions, and process adherence. Gain improved market responsiveness through real-time visibility.
Master Planner & Factory Manager
Get an overview of your supply plans, review production requirements and utilization discrepancies. Identify long-term adjustments and escalate risks to proactively manage production.
Purchasing Manager & Warehouse Manager
Review purchase plans and cost drivers. Support supplier negotiations with better visibility to decrease purchase prices. Track warehouse utilization, inventory projections and inbound/outbound flows.
Executive Team
A single, decision-ready plan with aligned sales, operations, and finance organizations. Enable faster and higher-quality decisions through clear visibility into scenarios, risks, assumptions, and accountability.
Talk to a supply chain expert!
Ready to take your supply chain to the next level? Let’s talk. Our experts are here to help you find the right solutions for smoother, smarter operations.
