S&OP Maturity Model – How Good is your S&OP? Do This Self Assessment

S&OP Maturity Model – How Good is your S&OP?

To deploy a successful Sales and Operations Planning Process, we have built this simple yet very effective S&OP Maturity Model Self-Assessment tool which you can conduct online and the maturity score.

This S&OP Maturity Model Self-Assessment tool will help you as a guide to identify which one of the below-listed process elements is considered as gap in your business and once you finish the assessment it will “recommend” you resources to close the gap to take your process to next level!

Sales and Operations Planning Process is on the key process in supply chain planning hierarchy.

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This S&OP Maturity Model Self Assessment tool has 29 questions under below mentioned 6 categories:

  • S&OP Process Policy and Documentation
  • S&OP Organization, Meetings and Collaboration
  • S&OP Plan Integration, Planning Horizon and Scope
  • Measurements- Use of KPI in S&OP Process
  • The maturity of 5 Steps S&OP Process on Scale of 1-5 (1- Lowest & 5 Highest)
  • S&OP Advance Stage Questions

Simplistically speaking, the S&OP process does exactly what it says on the tin – it provides a general overview of company’s Sales and Operations Planning method! Its purpose is to aid you in understanding the planning balance between supply and demand.

S&OP Maturity Model

 

S&OP process represents an organizational improvement process which will…

  1. Balance employee understanding of supply capacity and market demand.
  2. Establish a common language for information sharing among all functional groups

The Sales and Operations Planning Process which is 5 Step monthly process helps the business and Supply Chain communities proactively plan for changes in demand by Monitoring the External Market.

 

S&OP as Supply Chain Process:

 

is a forecasting and decision-making process,

involves every department in the business,

gives the visibility and alignment on the middle term demand (2-18 months)

It is a monthly process

  • That provides realistic demand, production, and inventory plans to meet customer requirements.
  • That is implemented by a cross-functional team
  • That is documented and agreed by all parties
  • That provides communication and coordination of activities in different departments

Reference:

The guide is inspired from below research article

J. Andrew Grimson, David F. Pyke, (2007) “Sales and operations planning: an exploratory study and framework”, The International Journal of Logistics Management, Vol. 18 Issue: 3, pp.322-346

Muddassir Ahmed