Unique Supply Planner is tightly integrated to detailed scheduler to ensure a very high degree of compliance between Plan and actual production. It allocates date wise demand to factories based on freight, material & production costs and material & capacity constraints to generate or week wise production plan for each line.
Reduction in Total Cost and Increase in Profit
Average Increase of Service Level
Reduction of all-round Inventory and Lead-times
Long-term Visibility and Business Planning
Reduction in Total Cost and Increase in Profit
Average Increase of Service Level
Reduction of all-round Inventory and Lead-times
Long-term Visibility and Business Planning
Key Features
- Optimal Demand Allocation - Allocates production to the right factory based on capacity constraints and total landed cost consisting of (a) Inbound and outbound Freight, (b) Production Cost at own Factory and at Third-Parties, (c) Material and Utility Costs, (d) Tax benefits, Franchise Fees, Import and Export duties etc.
- Product Sequencing - Generates optimum production sequence on lines across the chain to ensure minimum inventory and waiting time at any location.
- Constraints - Constraints like Minimum and Maximum Load on Sites, Changeover Constraints, Capacity Constraints, Manpower Constraints, Consumable Constraints, and Raw Material Constraints etc.
- Multiple Planning Horizons - Generates daily, weekly or monthly production plan for factories and suppliers based on line capacities.
- Alternate and Multi-Level BOM - Can handle Multi-Level BOM to create requirements of different intermediates and Raw Materials.
- Generates dispatch quantities between source and destination based on requirements, lead time, safety stock requirements, etc.
- Maximizes Capacity Utilization by optimizing Lot sizes and by optimal line selection, Optimizes Product Sequencing on the lines.
- Generates Pre-build Plans ahead of Peak Seasons.
Deliverables in a Snapshot
Some Case Studies
A Large FMCG company’s India Operation reduced its Inventory by 12% and Improved Service Levels by 7% through Intelligent Supply Planning
One of the largest telecom companies globally optimized its material Deployment and Sourcing to reducing its overall cost of Supply Chain by over 4%
