Advance your supply planning capabilities
Improve planning across all supply processes, fulfilling demand targets and capacity requirements
Create an accurate foundation of data on which to perform all supply planning activities and fully integrate strategic sourcing and procurement planning, production planning, and inventory planning in a single, user-friendly platform.
Support strategic sourcing decisions
Easily manage make or buy, off-shoring, re-shoring, and shared services decisions.
Easily define your sourcing strategy
Put in place a sourcing strategy for each category, acknowledging supply market analysis, sourcing scope, policy imperatives, guidelines, and pre-qualification criteria
Streamline processes
From bid submission by suppliers to contract stipulation, within a workflow-driven, collaborative environment
Automate bid management
Take advantage of automatic valuation, sorting, ranking, and shortlisting of bids according to pre-uploaded criteria and key buying factors
Quickly conduct vendor scoring
Exploit clustering and analytics capabilities to create supplier tiers according to codified criteria (i.e. share of spending, level of criticality, geographical coverage, and size) and to rank suppliers’ performance according to KPI’s and business targets to ensure you are getting full value from them
Increase the depth of your reporting
Exploit BI capabilities for the generation of reports and dashboards on bids and key value drivers for contracts
Develop procurement planning
Generate a procurement plan within a collaborative environment across all supply chain processes.
Take a fully integrated approach
Generate purchasing planning aimed at operating expenditure reduction, acknowledging demand, production, and warehouse planning
Augment your plans with predictive insights
Strengthen procurement planning activities through the use of a predictive analytics engine with a machine learning approach
Enable real-time re-planning
Manage purchasing re-planning cycles on a real-time basis triggered by effective inputs from supply chain processes
Gain instant performance insights
Take advantage of reports and dashboards which support gap analysis between forecasted and actual figures
Improve category management
Support all category management process steps and governance allowing for SKU rationalization.
Reduce complexity
Exploit BI and analysis capabilities to correctly define spend categories and SKUs
Improve governance
Exploit simulation and scenario analysis features to decide ownership and governance attribution across the Sourcing Function (i.e. regional vs global departments)
Utilize market intelligence
Support market intelligence on new products, changes in product specifications, and products out of production
Undertake comprehensive cost analysis
Use clustering techniques to conduct cost analysis by category
Enhance capacity & production planning
Streamline capacity & production planning from strategy to execution to properly target business goals.
Create a fully informed production strategy
Put in place a production strategy in terms of volume thresholds, efficiency, productivity, and economies of scale targets compatible with business sustainability and value creation objectives
Manage production footprint with ease
Support footprint definition across geographies according to outsourcing and off-shoring/re-shoring choices, taking into consideration the layout of your warehouse and supplier/customer locations
Increase the effectiveness of capacity & production planning
Drive your master production schedule, matching capacity requirements within a multi-dimensional and driver-based planning process that acknowledges demand, procurement, and inventory planning
Look after re-planning cycles in real-time
Manage re-planning cycles on a real-time basis triggered by effective inputs from supply chain processes
Detect gaps in performance
Take advantage of reports and dashboards which support gap analysis between forecasted and actual figures
Modernize your inventory planning
Streamline warehousing practice through inventory planning which orchestrates the inflow and outflow of raw materials, semi-finished products, and finished products across the entire supply chain.
Link your inventory strategy with business goals
Put in place an inventory strategy in terms of stock thresholds, rotation efficiency, obsolescence, and scrapping rate targets compatible with business sustainability and value creation objectives
Define your warehouse footprint with ease
Support the definition of your warehouse footprint according to outsourcing choice, production footprint, and customer/supplier locations
Manage end-to-end inventory
Plan inventory inflows and outflows, defining safety/buffer stock thresholds, conceiving replenishment criteria, and acknowledging demand, procurement, and capacity & production planning
Conduct re-planning cycles in real-time
Manage inventory re-planning cycles on a real-time basis triggered by effective inputs from supply chain processes
Extract business insights from your reports
Exploit native platform reporting features to create reports and dashboards which support gap analysis between forecasted and actual figures, relative to variables and key value drivers such as inventory flows, stock ruptures, inventory rotation, and workforce productivity
A business-wide operational planning and reporting system
Thanks to Board we were able to replace an Excel-based sales and purchasing system with a database-supported operational planning and reporting system.
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Accomplish capacity planning to meet supply planning requirements.
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