Oliver Wight Releases Enterprise Sales & Operations Planning Tool, Version 6.1

Oliver Wight Americas, Inc., the creator and innovator of the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process, announces the availability of Version 6.1 of its Enterprise Sales & Operations Planning Tool (ESOPT), February 2009.
 
Jan. 22, 2009 - PRLog -- Oliver Wight Releases Enterprise Sales & Operations Planning Tool, Version 6.1

New London, NH (January 22, 2009) – Oliver Wight Americas, Inc., the creator and innovator of the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process, announces the availability of Version 6.1 of its Enterprise Sales & Operations Planning Tool (ESOPT), February 2009.  New data features in ESOPT v6.1 include the inventory analysis of current plan, target, minimum and maximum, expressed in units, days, or value; the option to input inventory cost separate from average cost for analyzing inventory value, providing the ability to view inventory value hierarchically; and the option to enter detailed cost data that will break down the average cost into fixed cost and variable costs.

Enhanced planning features, which are offered as options, include dependent demand in inventory unit and day calculations, and dependent demand when calculating the supply plan to targets.

Oliver Wight’s proprietary tool provides the critical link between operational systems (ERP, master scheduling, inventory management) and top-level planning.  “ESOPT Version 6.1 enhances the tool’s ability to present the business status, primarily in the financial area, to senior executives,” says J. Robert Tearnan, Oliver Wight principal.  “The new version also makes available the option of extending the planning horizon from two years to five.”

Other enhancements introduced in ESOPT v6.1 include planning supply charts that display annual totals, quarterly totals, and cumulative YTD sales, cost, margin value and margin percentage, and units data compared to budget; demand/supply synchronization charts that display total demand (demand, dependent demand, orders) and total supply (production, purchasing); as well as views of demand summary or supply summary in the Demand Supply Review.  ESOPT v6.1 also expands the ability to export data, such as aggregation codes, planning data by family, and pivot tables, to Excel.

“The tool’s users will be able to capture, measure, and track at any level of aggregation, fixed and variable costs, inventory costs, average financials through waterfalls and planning summary charts, and financial analysis at multiple levels of aggregation,” according to Tearnan.  “There is also added functionality to import data into the tool such as comments, calendars, resources, and planning data.”

The Enterprise Sales & Operations Planning Tool was designed and built by Oliver Wight’s manufacturing process experts as an integral presentation tool and continues to be refined and updated based on its use in more than 100 customer deployments over the past nine years.

For additional information about the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process, and the Enterprise Sales & Operations Planning Tool (ESOPT), Version 6.1, contact Oliver Wight Americas, Inc., at 1-800-258-3862; or visit, www.oliverwight-americas.com.

About Oliver Wight
Oliver Wight are leading business improvement specialists who educate, coach, and mentor people to lead and sustain change on the journey to business excellence and outstanding business performance.  With offices throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific, Oliver Wight consultants are at the leading edge of management thinking and practice.  For over 40 years, the Oliver Wight organization has worked with hundreds of companies worldwide to achieve Class A results.  For more information, go to http://www.oliverwight-americas.com.

For more information, contact:
Stephanie Willett at swillett@oliverwight.com
800-258-3862
info@oliverwight.com

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Oliver Wight are leading business improvement specialists who educate, coach and mentor people to lead and sustain change on the journey to business excellence and outstanding business performance.
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