SIOP
Supply Chain
SIOP (Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning)
Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning
S&OP variant that explicitly emphasizes inventory planning alongside demand and supply balancing.
Examples
- 01SIOP adds an inventory plan to the monthly sales and operations meeting, showing stock targets for each product family.
- 02In the SIOP review, the team checks whether planned stock levels match the service and cash targets.
- 03When SIOP shows stock building up for a slow product, production volume is reduced the following month.