Sales & operations planning without the side-channel spreadsheet

An S&OP meeting is supposed to align demand, supply, and the financial plan. In practice it often aligns three spreadsheets built by three teams on three different refresh schedules, and the meeting spends its first twenty minutes just establishing whose numbers are current.

Operational plans need the same actuals finance already has

Demand and inventory planning, sales and operations planning, and product profitability analysis are operational disciplines, but every one of them ultimately depends on the same actuals finance is already reconciling (unit costs, sell-through, fulfillment volumes). When the operational plan pulls those numbers from a separate export instead of the reconciled base, the two plans start from different truths before the meeting even starts.

Recomputing on one base

Rexfin runs supply-chain and S&OP planning against the same reconciled actuals base as the financial plan, at the capability level the discipline needs today: demand and inventory planning, S&OP scenario branches, and product-profitability views that trace back to the same governed definitions as revenue and cost of goods sold.

That means a demand-sensing change or a supply-constraint scenario recomputes the financial forecast alongside the operational plan, instead of requiring someone to re-key the implications into the P&L afterward.

What changes in the room

• Demand, supply, and financial plans open the meeting already reconciled to the same actuals.
• A scenario (a supplier delay, a demand spike) shows its P&L impact in the same view as its operational impact.
• The debate moves from “whose numbers are right” to the actual planning decision.

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