OIS consolidates the Sales and Operations Planning efforts on the same set of data for planning purposes. This eliminates the current conflicting decision making between Finance and Operations because of different cost data.

Finance currently uses the budget which is based on the firm’s departmental costs while Operations uses the firm’s departments’ operations’ costs.  These operations costs are then summed by department for Finance for cost comparison purposes with the current budget.

See an S&OP expert’s thoughts on this consolidation. Quoting his conclusion:

“..”ultimately, this is the way it’s got to be…where history will go”