Pharma S&OP software that ends with one agreed plan
Commercial, demand and supply each bring their own numbers, and the decisions end up in email. PLAIO keeps the discussion, the change history and the agreed plan on the rows supply plans from.
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Leading pharmaceutical companies
Decisions made in S&OP rarely reach the plan
A tender is due in November. In a thread, someone asks whether January can be covered without going under the MOQ, and a planner changes a cell. Two weeks later nobody can say why December went up.
Each team brings its own spreadsheet, so the meeting spends its hour reconciling numbers.
The commercial forecast, the statistical one and the supply view arrive as separate files, merged the night before. The meeting argues about whose number is right. What it does decide ends up in the minutes.
Next month the same questions come back. Nobody can find what was agreed, or who changed the plan afterwards.
Why it matters:
People reopen decisions they can’t find. When the agreement sits on the plan itself, the next cycle picks up where the last one stopped.
What S&OP looks like in PLAIO
Start with what moved
Before the meeting, PLAIO flags each month where the live plan has drifted past your threshold from last cycle’s plan. The review opens on those rows.
Every change keeps its reason
Each edit is kept with the person, the time and the old and new values, and they can add the reason. When someone asks why December went up, the answer is on the row.
Last month’s plan is still there
PLAIO snapshots the active demand plan every month and scores accuracy against those snapshots. You are measured on the plan you actually agreed.
How a pharma S&OP cycle runs in PLAIO
Agree the number on the row
Tasks and comments live on the planning rows. Each task has an owner and a due date, and the Tasks page shows what is open and what is overdue.
Try it in a scenario first
Copy the active plan into a scenario for the lost tender or the launch that slipped a quarter. Supply keeps planning on the active plan until someone makes the scenario the plan.
Compare supply plans on service
The Service Levels and Inventory & Expiry dashboards work on any supply scenario. Fill rate, lost sales and months of inventory sit side by side, so the meeting can see what each option costs.
Protect what supply has committed
Each demand scenario has a frozen period, set in months, that can’t be edited. Supply lanes have their own, and PLAIO leaves planned orders inside it alone.
Walk into the next S&OP with one plan
30 minutes on your own products: what moved, who changed it, and the supply plan that follows.
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