Strategic sales planning at ŠKODA AUTO: more efficient, faster, and more accurate

In cooperation with ŠKODA AUTO, we have built a sales planning system that collects information from several different company departments on, for example, planned products, sales volumes by sales region, categorizations of different product types, aggregates and equipment levels, and more.

The collected data are imported into an application that, using a corresponding software environment, creates mechanisms to ensure the quality and consistency of the plan as a whole with hundreds of different sales and production estimates. This allows the carmaker to plan faster, more efficiently and extremely accurately far in advance.

ŠKODA AUTO, for whom we custom-built this planning platform and software environment, particularly appreciate: 

• centralized functions in a user-friendly environment,
• faster volume-plan processing and approval,
• minimized manual activities and errors in plan preparation,
• consistency throughout the entire planning process.

1. It consolidates volume inputs for product planning 

• Collecting volume inputs from sales regions
• Merging them with a centrally prepared plan

2. It monitors security and plan consistency

• Securing sensitive data to ensure that only an authorized person can access them
• Checking that planned volumes agree with a predefined set of hundreds of planning estimates

3. It carries out planning and assessment

• Providing data for downstream processes for production planning, accounting and consolidating financial calculations of CO2 emissions, etc.
• Implementing transparent reporting that provides a general overview as well as insight into every minute detail

With our know-how, cutting-edge technology and comprehensive platform, you can combine things that were previously unimaginable, and prepare thorough and detailed plans in just a matter of days.