Revolutionizing Supply & Operations Planning

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Sales and Operations Planning isn’t just about numbers—it’s about making faster, smarter decisions that unite your sales, supply chain, and finance teams toward a common goal. OptiFlowAI brings this vision to life with an easy-to-use AI-powered platform that bridges data silos, turns complexity into clarity, and guides users through every planning cycle. Whether you’re forecasting next month’s demand or tweaking production schedules on the fly, OptiFlowAI delivers instant insights, scenario models, and visual analytics made for collaboration.

Imagine walking into your next planning meeting with actionable forecasts, automated alerts, and transparent performance dashboards—ready for every “what if” the market throws at you. OptiFlowAI makes S&OP a dynamic team experience: users can comment, share scenarios, and review plan impacts together, all inside an interactive workspace. With next-gen data integration and role-based access, your planning process is secure, scalable, and always connected—giving your business the confidence to adapt and grow in today’s fast-moving world.

OptiFlowAI revolutionizes Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), giving businesses the tools to balance supply and demand, optimize inventory, and drive superior financial results—all powered by advanced AI and analytics. With intuitive dashboards, seamless integration, and robust forecasting engines, OptiFlowAI transforms traditional planning into a strategic asset for modern enterprises.

Strategic Alignment through Sales and Operations Planning

Features

Demand Forecasting

  • Multi-level forecasting: By product, SKU, customer, channel, region, and time (day/week/month/quarter).

  • Statistical models: Moving average, exponential smoothing, ARIMA, seasonality detection, outlier correction.

  • ML-based models: Algorithm selection based on accuracy (e.g., gradient boosting / random forest / neural models).

  • Promotion & event modeling: Lift factors for campaigns, price changes, launches, holidays, competitor events.

  • Scenario planning: Best / base / worst-case forecasts with side-by-side comparison.

  • Automatic model selection: System recommends the best-fit model per SKU-location based on history and accuracy.

Demand Planning

  • Sales input workflows: Sales teams can adjust system forecasts with comments and justifications.

  • Marketing inputs: Campaign calendars and expected uplift captured and linked to the forecast.

  • Consensus planning: Workflow to move from system forecast → sales forecast → consensus forecast.

  • Approval workflows: Role-based approvals and locks for frozen periods.

  • Versioning: Maintain multiple forecast versions with audit trail and change history.

Supply Planning

  • Integration with Supply Planning: Export consensus demand to supply planning/MRP/TMS systems.

  • Capacity visibility: Overlay demand vs. production and logistics capacity constraints.

  • Inventory policy alignment: Connect demand plans to safety stock and reorder policies.

  • KPI dashboards: Forecast accuracy, bias, service level, fill rate, stock-outs, and excess inventory.

Analytics & Reporting

  • Forecast accuracy analytics: MAPE, MAD, bias by product, region, planner, and time bucket.

  • Exceptions management: Automatic alerts for large forecast deviations, demand spikes, or drops.

  • ABC/XYZ segmentation: Classify SKUs to apply differentiated planning strategies.

  • Root-cause analysis: Drill-downs by customer, channel, region, and event.

  • Self-service reports: Excel-like grid, pivot-style analytics, and export options.

User Experience

  • Web-based UI: Responsive, browser-based workspace with no desktop install.

  • Planner workbench: Personalized views, saved layouts, filters, and favorites.

  • Mass-edit & overrides: Inline editing, bulk adjustments, percentage and absolute changes.

  • Comments & collaboration: Threaded comments on SKUs, customers, and forecasts.

  • Notifications: Email / in-app alerts for tasks, approvals, and exceptions.

Data Management & Integrations

  • Data inputs: Historical sales, shipments, orders, returns, pricing, promotions, and external factors.

  • Connectors: APIs / flat file / database integration with ERP, CRM, POS, e-commerce, and WMS/TMS.

  • Master data: Product, location, customer hierarchies with effective dating and attribute management.

  • Security & governance: Role-based access, audit logs, SSO support, and data encryption.

Seamless ERP Integration

  •  OptiFlowAI connects directly with ERP systems to extract sales and procurement data through a robust pipeline. Forecast
    outputs can be securely accessed through role-based permissions or exported into Excel, ensuring smooth adoption
    without disrupting existing workflows.

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Benefits of OptiFlowAI

Financial Benefits

  • Inventory reduction: Typically 10–20% reduction in overall inventory through better visibility and policy alignment.

  • Working capital improvement: Reduction in stock holding days and freeing of cash tied in inventory.

  • Revenue uplift: 1–3% revenue increase through better product availability and reduced stock-outs.

  • Reduced obsolescence: 15–30% reduction in slow-moving and obsolete inventory.

  • Lower expediting costs: 10–25% reduction in premium freight and urgent production changes.

Operational Benefits

  • Improved forecast accuracy: 10–30 percentage point improvement in MAPE for key SKUs/channels.

  • Higher service levels: Increase in OTIF / fill-rate by 3–8 percentage points.

  • Shorter planning cycle: Reduction of monthly planning cycle time by 30–50%.

  • Standardized S&OP process: Structured, repeatable monthly/weekly demand review.

  • Reduced manual effort: Less time spent in spreadsheets and manual consolidations.

Strategic Benefits

  • Single source of truth: One consolidated demand plan for all stakeholders.

  • Faster response: Improved agility to respond to market changes and disruptions.

  • Better cross-functional alignment: Finance, Sales, and Operations work on common numbers.

  • Scalability: Supports expansion to new products, markets, and channels without exponential planner load.

Overall Benifits

  • Agility: Swift response to supply/disruption with scenario-based plans and dynamic reallocation.

  • Efficiency: Reduced overtime, minimized spoilage, improved forecasting accuracy (15–20% boost typical).

  • Cost Savings: Reduced overall expenditure (case studies show up to 50% of supply chain spend cut over transformation).

  • Resource Optimization: Enhanced inventory turns, lower cash tied up in stock, reduction in warehouse and transport spend.

  • Customer Satisfaction: Improved on-time delivery and order fulfillment rates; fewer stock-outs.

  • Scalable Collaboration: Cross-team strategic planning aligned with business objectives.