The SAP Sales and Operations Planning application achieves the next level in collaborative business planning, while delivering the following key business benefits:

• Improved visibility into multiple plans – Gain a single view into production and financial strategies, so you can better align supply and demand with business requirements and plan activities to meet customers' needs.
• Optimized performance – Access predefined key performance indicators (KPIs) that assist with demand, inventory, financial, and production planning. With these KPIs, you can also compare results against targets – and optimize resources to support your business objectives.
• Improved insight into business operations – Analyze business information to help assess the financial implications of plans, and determine the impact of planning on both supply and demand.
• Better collaboration between employees and partners – Improve process management so you can build better internal communications with staff and improve collaboration with your business partners, including suppliers and customers.
• Improved data accuracy and employee productivity – Automatically extract and aggregate data. By providing organizations with accurate data quickly, SAP SOP can make budgeting less complex and more accurate. The application also saves time for employees by providing them with a single, aligned view of multiple plans.
• Reduced total cost of ownership – Leverage existing software, including non-SAP applications, so you can deploy quickly and get the most out of your current investments. SAP SOP is built on the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, which unifies integration technologies in a single platform and reduces the need for custom integration.