S&OP Cycle Coordination
A scheduled S&OP cycle moves through separate demand, supply, and finance reviews, reconciles one cross-functional plan, recovers late inputs, and carries the final tradeoffs through pre-S&OP and executive approval.
Cross-functional planning cycleSuperprocess · Supply Chain
S&OP Cycle Coordination
Design
Three formal functional reviews must clear the cycle cutoff, reconcile into one plan, and pass pre-S&OP before executive approval and publication.
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What the diagram shows
A scheduled S&OP cycle moves through separate demand, supply, and finance reviews, reconciles one cross-functional plan, recovers late inputs, and carries the final tradeoffs through pre-S&OP and executive approval.
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modeled steps
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modeled routes
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human gates
Run
This scheduled cycle follows a demand-review change through cutoff, cross-functional reconciliation, pre-S&OP, executive approval, publication, and decision history.
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Open cycle
D-10Calendar, owners, cutoffs, prior plan, and required review packets registered
Run functional reviews
D-7Demand, supply, and finance teams submit reviewed assumptions and gaps
Reconcile plan
D-4Late data is recovered; volume, capacity, service, margin, and cash are aligned
Pre-S&OP
D-2Cross-functional leaders resolve conflicts and prepare one recommended operating plan
Executive S&OP
D-1Executives approve the constrained plan, tradeoffs, actions, and owners
Publish and record
D0Approved targets, actions, assumptions, and decision history update planning systems
Decision
Executives see the demand delta, supply and capacity gap, finance impact, unresolved conflicts, recommended plan, and accountable owners.
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Decision required
Named authority · Executive S&OP
Demand review
Consensus plan +7.2%
Supply review
Line 3 constrained in weeks 6–8
Finance reconciliation
Margin held within 40 bps
Executive decision
Approve constrained operating plan
approve plan, actions, owners
Evidence
The cycle record keeps every review version, late-data recovery, reconciliation change, forum decision, executive authority, action owner, and published plan.
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Run record
Inputs, decisions, artifacts, and system writes stay together.
Cycle opened
Calendar, owners, prior plan, cutoffs, and required review packets registered
Functional reviews complete
Demand, supply, and finance assumptions submitted with gaps and owners
Plans reconciled
Late inputs recovered; volume, capacity, margin, cash, and service aligned
Pre-S&OP recommendation
Cross-functional conflicts resolved into one constrained operating plan
Executive approval
Plan, tradeoffs, actions, and accountable owners approved
Plan published
Operating targets, assumptions, actions, and decision history written to planning systems
Boardroom
For supply-chain leadership, the value is a shorter planning cycle with demand, capacity, margin, and ownership aligned before the executive decision.
Operator
For planners, Superprocess replaces spreadsheet chasing with formal review packets, late-input recovery, a prepared pre-S&OP decision, and one controlled publication path.
Builder
For builders, the model makes the planning calendar, three functional reviews, cutoff recovery, reconciliation, pre-S&OP, executive authority, publication, and evidence explicit.
Systems touched
The process connects work, people, and records.
- formal functional reviews
- 3
- cross-functional forums
- 2
- approved operating plan
- 1
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