Drive Better Decisions

Make life easier at every step of your planning journey. With intuitive End-to-End integrated software that gives you the insight to spot and solve problems at the right moment.

Tackle challenges head-on

  • Reduced Customer Service

You have poor customer service levels, or are spending too much to deliver a good level of service.

  • Volatile Demand

The market, economy, and customer needs are changing quickly and you’re struggling to keep up.

  • Carbon Emissions

You want to know what your forecast emissions are and where you can reduce your supply chain’s effect on the environment.

  • Ineffective Manual Planning

You haven’t got the information or tools you need to make smart planning decisions, so outcomes are poor.

  • Limited Data Visibility

To meet customer demand you need End-to-End visibility from raw materials through to distribution. At the moment, you can’t connect the dots.

  • Poor Forecast Accuracy

Inaccuracies have either impacted customer service or driven excess stock and obsolescence as well as cascading down the supply chain.

  • Operational & Finance Targets Misaligned

Your operational plans aren’t working towards your overall business targets.

  • Stock Waste & Shelf Life is a Problem

Poor planning decisions can mean disposing of finished goods, WIP, materials or packaging stock unnecessarily. Manufacturers are under pressure to hold less stock but maintain service levels.

  • Excess Production Costs

Too long spent on changeover and cleaning, late deliveries, poor yield of materials. They’re all adding up.

  • High Procurement Costs

To meet delivery deadlines, you often pay higher prices and/or spend more on emergency transport because of issues earlier in the supply chain.

  • Soaring Labour Costs

There’s too much overtime being logged across all of your departments.

  • Product Quality Issues

Your equipment and tooling maintenance scheduling isn’t up to scratch, and it’s impacting product quality.

  • What Product & Where

Coordinating which products to make, how many, when and where is a struggle, let alone synchronising deliveries of semi-finished products between manufacturing locations.

  • Continual Promotional Peaks

You’re having trouble bringing your marketing and sales teams together with production planning, to reduce stock-outs and maximise sales during promotions.

  • Delivery Promise Inaccuracies

Customers are frustrated at the slow response time and lack of accuracy when promising delivery dates. You don’t have visibility of the right data or the tools to give them what they need.

  • Ineffective Customer/Product Prioritisation

Everything is a priority because the rules are neither understood nor systemised. This means you can’t prioritise your key customers and products effectively.

  • Difficulty Managing Complex Constraints

Your Constraints, Planning Rules and BOMs are increasing in both scale and complexity further exposing the limitations of your existing systems.

With you all the way

Operational Planning

See exactly what’s happening across your Supply Chain so you can keep your customers happy, create efficiencies and save money.

Strategic Planning

Integrate your plans so teams can see the bigger picture. Make strategic decisions and fill in any gaps to stay aligned with market demands and direction.

Exceptions Management

Things can go wrong. Sofco will summarise exceptions by priority and get you straight to the detail for information and action, so when an exception happens you deal with them by order of importance and have the tools to manage it well.

Decision Support

Use your data to achieve the best possible outcomes. Sofco’s Scenario Planning, Machine Learning and Insights help you make fact-based decisions with confidence.

Trusted by our clients

“Greencore is involved in multiple categories, supplying a diverse range of products with different characteristics that require very different manufacturing processes. We selected Sofco as they have an End-to-End planning and execution system that can be configured easily to fit these disparate demands. Our approach is much more sophisticated and collaborative now.”

Chris Chestney

IT Business Partner, Greencore

“What impressed us most about the Sofco people was they understood our business, listened, and would bring a lot of experience to the project. They brought solid solutions to the issues we presented them with. It was clear from the outset that we were going to be able to work well together as a team and deliver this project. That is exactly what has happened.”

Barbara Van den Berg

Project Manager, Van Geloven

Demand Planning

Improve performance across your whole value chain. Deliver for customers, reduce costs and increase profit.

Scheduling

Optimise your scheduling processes, meet delivery objectives and improve customer service levels.

Trade Promotions

Get maximum ROI from promotions, with insights from past data analysis to post-event evaluation.

Supply Planning

Get visibility of supply and demand at all levels of the supply chain. Be more agile and demand-driven.

S&OP / IBP

Align your S&OP / IBP process from End-to-End. Collaborate across financial, operational and strategic objectives.

Collaborative Forecaster

Work with your team to create, review and update forecasts remotely on any device.