22 April 2026

United Kingdom, April 2026 – Slimstock, a global leader in supply chain planning, today announced an extension to its strategic partnership with Vena, the AI-powered FP&A platform built on Microsoft technology. Together, the two organisations enable businesses to tightly connect Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) with Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), ensuring that operational decisions are directly assessed through a financial lens.

The joint solution equips senior leadership teams with a clear, monetised view of supply chain decisions, showing the impact on revenue, margin, cash flow and working capital before actions are taken. As a result, organisations can make faster, more confident decisions, reduce risk in volatile markets, and align finance and operations around a single version of the truth.

 

Resolving the “volume vs. revenue” disconnect

In today’s volatile market, there is often a gap that exists between the “Office of Finance,” which speaks in budgets and margins, and “Operations,” which manages SKUs and cases. This disconnect leads to:

  • Decision latency: The financial impact of supply disruptions is often realised weeks after the operational response.
  • Conflicting priorities: Operations may optimise for service levels (increasing inventory), while Finance prioritises working capital (decreasing inventory).
  • Forecast dissonance: Bottom-up demand plans rarely align with top-down financial budgets, eroding data trust and encouraging “Shadow IT”.

 

A unified planning environment (xP&A)

By integrating Slimstock’s Slim4 operational engine with Vena’s flexible financial modelling, the partnership offers a comprehensive Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) solution.

  • Slimstock provides the granular operational intelligence, identifying seasonality, product lifecycles and supplier reliability.
  • Vena acts as the financial platform, translating operational reality into insightful outcomes and better-informed financials (P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow) to enable “Monetised S&OP”.

“In today’s high-interest, volatile market, static planning is no longer just an inefficiency, it represents a significant risk to performance ” comments Stan Krupnik, Global Director of Partnerships at Slimstock. “By integrating Slimstock’s AI-driven operational intelligence with Vena’s powerful financial modelling, we are moving beyond simple software integration. We are providing a unified environment where every operational scenario, from a port strike to a promotion, is instantly evaluated for its financial merit. This allows organisations to stop reacting to the past and start orchestrating their future with one version of the truth.”

Alex Wood, VP, Global Channels at Vena, added, “Vena is very pleased to partner with Slimstock to advance our shared vision for Integrated Business Planning.

“Monetising S&OP is important as it allows our customers to translate operational data into clear financial metrics, which can unlock new levels of profitability, agility, and strategic clarity.

“As organisations look for ways to better connect supply chain with financial performance, this partnership brings together two best in class organisations, leveraging Slimstock’s Slim4 platform and expertise, with Vena’s Financial Planning & Analysis platform, to creating a unified, value-focused approach to planning.

“This close cooperation reflects a shared commitment to delivering meaningful value for customers—helping them plan with confidence in an increasingly dynamic business environment.”

 

About Vena

Vena is the only agentic AI-powered FP&A platform purpose-built to harness the full power of the Microsoft technology ecosystem for finance teams everywhere. Vena amplifies Microsoft’s world-leading productivity tools, cloud technology and AI innovation to make FP&A, operational planning and adjacent strategic processes more flexible, efficient and intelligent. Thousands of the world’s leading companies rely on Vena to power their planning. For more information, visit venasolutions.com.