The SAP Sales and Operations Planning (SAP SOP) application helps you align your company's financial goals, marketing efforts, and inventory targets in one consolidated plan.

With SAP SOP, you can manage:

• Consolidation of business planning – Your management teams can:
  • Review and update high-level plans that affect all aspects of sales and operations, including marketing, finance, operations, and customer service
  • Evaluate these plans for operational outcome
  • Determine how to modify business strategy to ensure successful plans
• Data aggregation – Your stakeholders and decision makers can:
  • Gain access to relevant data, including aggregated, role-specific information about time, organization, product, geography, and units of measure
  • Create information about sales, marketing, manufacturing, and logistics – and link decisions at the strategic level, making sure that tactics align with strategy and goals
  • React to automated alerts that help them adapt to plan deviations
• Planning integration – With SAP NetWeaver as the open technology platform, you can:
  • Enable access to key information from other software
  • Integrate SAP and non-SAP applications to achieve a consolidated view of all planning-related data – and manage the generation of demand, supply, and financial plans
  • Establish a holistic planning process for sales and operations
• Milestone and process management – Your stakeholders and team members can:
  • Work on multiple planning processes in parallel to organize plans and allow for variations
  • Define tasks and assign responsibility for the steps that need to occur between planning meetings
  • Track each step of the planning process, propose strategies, explain the logic behind decisions, identify potential risks, follow up on related questions and issues, store results, and share progress
• Generation of analytical reports – Your executives and other stakeholders can:
  • Request reports that include the granular level of detail that they wish to evaluate, so they can get comprehensive, role-specific information about important trends and progress
  • Determine the best plan to grow their businesses by establishing operational, sales, and financial goals with the least risk