Lighthouse Sales and Operations Planning solution from its Lighthouse suite of products offers very flexible environment for balancing the supply & demand requirements of an organization on a forward-looking basis. The Lighthouse’s enterprise planning solution also includes package on Production Planning, Demand Planning and Supply Planning.
Some of the key functionalities of Lighthouse Sales and Operations Planning are listed here.
Scenario planning is the ability to simulate and compare various business scenario options, and to orchestrate desired business outcomes. Lighthouse enables users to compare and evaluate the changes utilizing multiple versions. Users try to create realistic plans that maximize the financial impact of their strategies while meeting other business objectives.
Attributes associated with product or region dimensions (say, color of the product) can also be used for viewing the planning books. Classification of items/item-locations based on certain attributes like value or volume forms the basis of getting a clear understanding of historical trends. Classification is a medium to view planning data based on industry-defined criteria.
Lighthouse Sales and Operations Planning Module enables multi-dimensional drill down. Sales and Operations Planning can be done at different levels of hierarchy, across product, region and time dimensions. Lighthouse also offers the ability to create parallel hierarchies in both product and region to allow for maximum flexibility to view various data measures within organizations.
Graphical display of data makes the User Interface very interactive and user friendly.
Lighthouse Sales and Operations Planning facilitates user profile based viewing and editing of operating plans at different levels of product and region hierarchy. Different department managers can give ongoing input for a scenario at any given time and the expected results for the buckets ahead. The S&OP meeting facilitates agreement between various planning functions to drive the company to work towards a single plan.
Lighthouse Sales and Operations Planning stores planning data in multiple data measures in the Demand Planning book, Supply Planning book and Manufacturing Planning book. Additional data measures can be added to the Sales and Operations Planning books according to industry specific requirements. Editable data measures with User Authorization can be defined and designated to enable the consensus planning process.
Lighthouse allows configuration of automatic alerts and reporting tools to highlight any exceptional cases. The alerts prompt the relevant users to take necessary action. Alerts and Reporting tools are pre-configured in the solution and other industry relevant alerts and reports can be easily made available.