1. EXPERIENCE YOU CAN TRUST
INSIGHTS YOU CAN USE
INNOVATION YOU CAN PROFIT FROM
Leading Practices in Sales and
Operations Planning and the
DuPont Journey to Improved
S&OP
Steve Desirey, CFPIM
Manager of Business Planning, DuPont
Arnold Mark Wells, CPIM
Solution Principal, SAP America
2. EXPERIENCE YOU CAN TRUST
INSIGHTS YOU CAN USE
INNOVATION YOU CAN PROFIT FROM
S&OP – What and Why
The DuPont Journey
Working Examples
Wrap-Up
3. EXPERIENCE YOU CAN TRUST
INSIGHTS YOU CAN USE
INNOVATION YOU CAN PROFIT FROM
What is Sales and Operations Planning?
Why is Sales and Operations Planning Crucial?
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4. What Is S&OP?
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) is the process of
making business decisions
Synchronizing decisions across business functions (marketing,
sales, manufacturing, procurement, distribution, finance)
Testing assumptions and alternatives (strategic and operational)
Optimizing decisions for profitability (e.g. gross margin or EBIT)
or value (e.g. EVA)
Making decisions feasible for execution
Aligning tactical decisions with strategy and goals
Adapting continuously for improved performance
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5. What Is S&OP?
18 months out
S&OP provides future planning
to avoid surprises … What can Unexpected levels of
be done differently now? working capital required
Demand exceeds capacity
Unexpected plant shutdown
Competition grows capacity
New product intro & cannibalization
Impact of planned price increase
Supply Inventories
S&OP Things seem OK at the moment
Process
New Backorders are high
Demand Products
Today Not all shipments are on time
Sales and Operations Planning integrates into a single operating plan for the next 18 months
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6. What Is S&OP?
Strategic planning and Operational planning and budgeting
Plan evaluation
target setting on group level in the business units
Reconciliation of
operational plans
with strategic
targets
Production planning
Sales and
Operations Planning
Sales planning Marketing planning
Strategic Targets
(Operating Profit + 4%,
Market share + 10%) Strategic Planning
Tn T0
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7. What Is S&OP? - Fully Integrated, Closed-Loop
Process
All Five Steps of the Process are Integrated
1. Strategic Planning
Market planning
Product planning
Resource Planning
Alignment to Corporate goals 2. Demand Planning
Quantitative Forecasting
5. Evaluation & Sales, Marketing Input
Orders/Demand Balancing
Analysis
KPI Measurement
Plan vs. Actual
Forecast error
Margin Management
Root Cause Analysis
3. Supply/Demand Balancing 3. Supply Planning
Product Mix Capacity Planning
Constraint Management Inventory Planning
Allocation of Demand to Supply Procurement Planning
Logistics
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8. What is S&OP - Demand
External Factors
History Isn’t Enough
Customer input
Competition
Economy
Regulation
Internal Factors
Market trends
Price changes
Lead times
Sales plans
Product promotions
Unconstrained
New products
Demand
Product withdrawal
Forecast
Senior management
Objectives
Strategies
Expectations
History of Demand
Actual sales
Unmet demand
Unwanted
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9. What is S&OP - Demand
Demand Differentiation Is Critical!
Three categories
Unmet
Demand that meets the Demand
business’ criteria and can
be met
Sales
Demand that meets the
business’ criteria but
exceeds available supply
Unwanted
Demand that does not meet Demand
the business’ minimum
criteria and is thus not
wanted
“How do you determine the category of your demand?”
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10. What is S&OP - Supply
Multiple Considerations with Many Implications
Supply Capabilities
Make Imports Outside
Available
Finished from Purchase
Product Other
Inventory Capacity Regions
Capability
Contract
Manufacture or
Tollers
Procurement
of Ingredients
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11. EXPERIENCE YOU CAN TRUST
INSIGHTS YOU CAN USE
INNOVATION YOU CAN PROFIT FROM
What is Sales and Operations Planning?
Why is Sales and Operations Planning Crucial?
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12. What Is S&OP Crucial?
In a marketplace of constant change, sales and operations
planning (S&OP) has become one of the most critical
business processes required to enable companies to
achieve profitable growth.
The Sales and Operations Planning Benchmark Report
“Leveraging S&OP for Competitive Advantage”
Source:
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13. What Is S&OP Crucial?
S&OP practices are a prime determinant of business
performance and competitiveness
100%
90%
80%
Current % performance
70%
Laggard
60% Industry norm
50% Best in class
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Complete order % Gross margin % Customer
fill rate retention
Performance Metric
Source:
“The Sales and Operations Planning Benchmark Report”
Leveraging S&OP for Competitive Advantage”
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14. What Is S&OP Crucial?
S&OP: Then and Now
Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Vinay Asgekar, Jill Gazzi
The S&OP process, by definition, has always
been a multidisciplinary process. But up until
now, the lack of technology prevented multiple
groups from simultaneously participating in the
process. In many cases, the scope was limited
by region.
Source: AMR Research
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15. Same Data, but from Different Perspectives
All departments can see the same data at the same time from their
own perspective
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16. What Is S&OP Crucial?
Inventory Days of Supply (Days) Cash-to-Cash Cycle Time (Days)
101,2 125 121,1
Immature
100
78,8 100 91,5 Mature
75 66,3 72,3
75 Mature
w/Best
50 In Class
50
systems
25 25
0 0
Immature Mature Mature w/BIC Immature Mature Mature w/BIC
Systems Systems
22% reduction with mature practice 24% reduction with mature practice
Additional 16% reduction with BIC Additional 21% reduction with BIC
systems systems
Inventory Carrying Cost (% of revenue) Total Obsolescence for Raw Material, WIP
and Finished Goods Inventory as a % of
3,2% Revenue
3%
2,3% 0,9%
1,0%
2% 0,8%
1,5%
0,6% 0,5%
1% 0,4% 0,3%
0,2%
0% 0%
28% reduction with mature practice 44% reduction with mature practice
Additional 35% reduction with BIC Additional 40% reduction with BIC systems
systems
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17. EXPERIENCE YOU CAN TRUST
INSIGHTS YOU CAN USE
INNOVATION YOU CAN PROFIT FROM
S&OP – What and Why
The DuPont Journey
Working Examples
Wrap-Up
18. Victory for DuPont will be
“When customers have a need for goods
and services, they will always contact
DuPont first.”
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19. DuPont, Continuous Renewing
• Coatings & Color Technologies
• Performance Materials
• Safety & Protection
• Agriculture & Nutrition
• Electronic & Communication Technologies
“With five growth platforms, DuPont integrates
research and new product development with
confirmed market need to make life better, all
around the world.”
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20. SAP in DuPont
R/3 (transaction system) will be typically by strategic business unit
or by global geography (Americas, Europe, Asia/Pacific). DuPont’s
landscape is by business.
Within the landscape, there are multiple R/3s
Incumbent R/3s, R/2, Joint Ventures
Focused DSAP activity that was launched in 2000
4 R/3 clusters with multiple strategic business units
Multiple APOs by strategic business units
One business warehouse (BW)
Today 90% of DuPont is on SAP
75% is in the DSAP activity
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23. “Trying to execute R/3 without an integrated planning
system is like tossing darts blindfolded”
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24. Leading Edge Process Approach
Supply Demand
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25. Critical Few Metrics
Sales Forecast Accuracy
Production to Plan
Supplier Deliveries Customer Deliveries
On Time On Time
Demand, Supply,
Sales and Operations
Inventory
Planning
Financial Outlooks
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26. The molecule must be closed loop
Sales Forecast Accuracy
Production to Plan
Supplier Deliveries Customer Deliveries
On Time On Time
Demand, Supply,
Sales and Operations
Inventory
Planning
Financial Outlooks
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27. Use a consistent audit list
Preparation Meeting Execution Continuous Improvement
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28. Where should this activity take place?
New
Product
Plan
Demand
Plan
Integrated resources r Business Team Meeting
Capacity
Plan
linked to the X Sales and Operations
r
Business Plan Planning Meeting
r Not necessary
Supply
Plan
Financial
Plan
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29. Not so easy, agreements required
Metric calculation
Sales Forecast Accuracy
Identify where forecast accuracy is within 10%
Measured two months in advance of actual month
Supplier Delivery
5 buckets (>5 days early, 2-5, On day to 1 day early, 1-3 late, 4 late)
Production to Plan
Volume of process order is 10% of planned volume
Customer Service Delivery
Buckets similar to Supplier Delivery
S & OP
Demand, Supply, and Inventory
Units and Currency
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30. Not so easy, agreements required
Metric calculation
Make different from incumbent where possible -- raise the bar
Data design and cutoff
Monthly cutoff/run dates versus Monthly financial cutoff/run dates
Acceptance that regional cutoffs are trumped by global cutoffs
Remember the goal is making an impact on the trend line
Leveraged corporate consistency
Queries have hierarchical capability for details
Keep it simple with the definitions
Measure
Analyze
Improve
Control
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31. Now how do we build it?
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32. Standards and Governance
All business units will use the same set of reports jfjfjfjf
The originals of the standard configured reports will not be
changeable. The reports can be copied and changed to meet any
business specific reporting need under a different name space.
Variances to the standard reports will need approval from the
Corporate Process Owner as well as the BW governance board
Security is enabled at Info Cube level and will have additional
flexibility after upgrade to BW version 3.5
All measurements and metrics will be available in BW and the
operational reports are available in APO
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33. Standards and Governance
All business units will use the same set of Reports
The originals of the standard configured reports will not be
changeable. The reports can be copied and changed to meet
any business specific reporting need under a different name
space
Variances to the standard reports will need approval from the
Corporate Process Owner as well as the BW governance
board.
Security is enabled at Info Cube level and will have additional
flexibility after upgrade to BW version 3.5
All measurements and metrics will be available in BW and the
operational reports are available in APO
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34. Supporting Architecture
SAP APO Systems
SBU 1
SBU 2
SBU 3 SAP BW
SBU 4
SBU 5
SBU 6
BW Extractors
SAP R/3 Clusters
Cluster1
Cluster2
Cluster3
Cluster4
BW Extractors
Non SAP
File
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35. Staging the Actuals
Sales and Movement Info Structure 1
Transactions Data Collection R/3
Info Structure 1A
Archive
Sales staging DSI staging Delivery Service MPS
Info Structure 2a Info Structure 2b Info Structure 2c Info Structure 2d
V.001 Sales staging V.001 DSI staging V.001 Delivery service V.001 Mstr sched
V.100 Sales backup V.100 DSI backup V.100 Delivery backup V.100 Mstr sched backup
Info Cube A4 Info Cube A5
APO
Aggregated Info Cube A1 Info Cube A2 Info Cube A3
Info Cube DP DSI Delivery Ser. MPS –Comp. Capacity
Info Cube B3 Info Cube B4 Info Cube B5
BW
Info Cube B1 Info Cube B2
DP DSI Delivery Ser. MPS Comp. MPS Capacity
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36. Data flow: Staging the Plan
Live Cache APO
Demand
Demand Planning Info Cube
DSI
Supply Network Info Cube
Planning Extraction
MPS-Comp
to BW
Production Info Cube
Planning & MPS-Cap.
Info Cube
Detailed
Scheduling Uptime
Info Cube
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37. Data Flows and timings
The timing of data extraction is critical for both the plan and
actual transaction data.
The actual transaction information from R/3 is extracted every
day by scheduling the BW extractors
The Final Demand Plan for the month is automatically
scheduled to be extracted into BW periodically at the third
work day before the end of the month
The DSI (Demand, Supply & Inventory) plan is scheduled to be
extracted into BW periodically at the third work day before the
end of the month. The same data is converted into value for
Revenue Outlook and Inventory Projection
The detailed Production Schedule is extracted to BW at the
end of each week
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38. Performance and Archiving
The performance of the reports can be maintained only by
managing the volume of data in the individual Info Cubes
The plan for each month is stored in BW Info Cubes as
separate versions. There is a minimum of six previous
versions of plan and the older versions are deleted two times
a year
The actual transaction data up to a minimum of two years in
the past will be available for reporting in the Info Cubes. The
older transactions will get deleted two times a year.
This above strategy is purely for supporting the performance
of BP reporting and is not part of the corporate archiving
strategy for transaction information
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39. EXPERIENCE YOU CAN TRUST
INSIGHTS YOU CAN USE
INNOVATION YOU CAN PROFIT FROM
S&OP – What and Why
The DuPont Journey
Working Reports
Wrap-Up
40. Supplier Delivery Performance
On Time Performance
Supplier Deliveries
70.00%
64.41%
60.00%
50.00%
Pecentage of Total Purchase
40.00%
30.00%
20.00% 18.62%
13.34%
10.00%
1.86% 1.78%
0.00%
> 5 days early 5-2 days early 1 day early to on time 1-3 days late > 4 days late
Supplier deliveries
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41. Customer Delivery Performance
Customer Delivery Service Performance
35.00%
30.00%
25.00%
Sales Orders
20.00%
15.00%
10.00%
5.00%
0.00%
<= -7 Days -4 to -6 Days -1 to -3 Days On Time 1 to 3 Days 4 to 6 Days >= 7 Days
Planned versus actual ship date
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42. Product Group
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44. Demand, Supply and Inventory
Demand, Supply & Inventory
1,600,000,000
1,400,000,000
1,200,000,000
1,000,000,000
DSI in Units
Demand
800,000,000 Supply
Inventory
600,000,000
400,000,000
200,000,000
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M M M M M M M M M M M M
03.2005 04.2005 05.2005 06.2005 07.2005 08.2005 09.2005 10.2005 11.2005 12.2005 01.2006 02.2006
Time Period
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45. Revenue Outlook
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46. Projecting Cost of Inventory
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47. Return on Investment
Return on Investment is going to be best measured when you are
meeting your goal
This requires a end to end business strategy and an integrated
demand and supply chain
Using the principles in this approach will result in an ROI that will
best result in leading edge performance
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48. Leading Edge Practices
Sales and Operations Planning
Six Sigma
SCOR with a few vital metrics
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49. EXPERIENCE YOU CAN TRUST
INSIGHTS YOU CAN USE
INNOVATION YOU CAN PROFIT FROM
S&OP – What and Why
The DuPont Journey
Working Examples
Wrap-Up
50. Key Learnings
Engage in S&OP as a business planning process with bottom-line
implications
Identify your business goal
Select a few critical measurements
Plan your execution
Measure your performance with sensitive measures
that will be hard to hit
Keep measurements simple and easy to relate to their area for impact
Assess for continuous performance
Repeat the process
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51. Customer’s Response to “Why SAP?”
1. Enable Transformation 2. Integration & Innovation
• Higher business transparency & Visibility • Fast Implementation – Best Practices for Chemicals
• More efficient business processes • Proven Methodology
• IT has the flexibility to respond to changing • Trained implementation Consultants
market conditions • Preconfigured system – full
• Higher asset utilization & Lower inventory transparency
• Higher revenue, lower cost • Industry specific Team
FOUR REASONS
WHY SAP IS THE
PREFERRED
4. Lowest Risk CHOICE 3. Lower Total Cost of
• Proven solution Ownership
• Industry regulations compliance • Integrated Business processes
• Industry partner of choice • Lower cost through standardized processes
• Execute M&A Strategy • Open standards – scalable and secure
• SAP Management committed to your success • Flexible and adaptive to organizational and structural
changes
• Future-proof
• Lower maintenance cost with one integrated platform
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52. What
additional questions
do you have?
Steve.Desirey@usa.DuPont.com
Mark.Wells@SAP.com
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