Improved Visibility and Utilization
Master Planning is all about synchronization of purchasing, production, and distribution activities for timely fulfillment of customer demand. Efficient master plans not only reduce inventory levels needed for smooth material flow along the chain, they also utilize capital intensive resources effectively, yielding more output from the supply chain.
In absence of a master planning system, the manual effort required to generate plans for supply chain activities is so time consuming, it basically eliminates the possibility of quickly reacting to changes in demand or unforeseen supply disruptions.
planLM Master Planning solution optimally matches demand commitments with supply chain activities based on your set of business priorities, by allocating capacitated resources efficiently. It creates actionable purchasing, production, and replenishment orders, provides increased visibility for potential problems in the supply chain, and suggests potential resolutions.
Key Benefits
- Improve utilization of manufacturing assets
- Increase operational visibility, identify potential problems, and react with confidence
- Institutionalize production and distribution planning processes, maintain consistency in planning
- Minimize late customer orders, and expensive expedites
- Reduce inventory through improved planning
- Shorten planning cycles for better control of the total supply
Key Features
planLM Master Planning solution is specifically designed for rapid execution of our planning systems implementation methodology. Key features are as follows:
- Comprehensive cost and capacity modeling; inherently models all activities in the supply chain, eliminates special configuration efforts for most business issues
- Customizable planning goals; generates plans based on your specific business priorities
- "What if" capability; supports multiple business scenarios with ability of capturing multiple versions of forecasts, one-click plan comparison ability
- Problem detection and reporting; identifies material shortages in the plan, suggests resolutions, on-the fly plan modification capability
- Flexible data synchronization module; connects to virtually any data source for data load and plan commit with scheduling ability
- Unprecedented scalability; runs on 64bit architecture without any limits on the size of the supply chain
- Order pegging; tracks planned activities due customer and forecasted orders
- OnDemand deployment option; enables you to start your master planning system implementation right away, without acquiring any software license or hardware. Contact us for a quick start guide.