The Supply Planner production sourcing & asset planning solution determines various tradeoffs between production costs, capacities and lot sizes, tooling requirements, warehousing costs, transportation costs and service requirements. The objective is to suggest production and replenishment plans for future time periods.
Supply Planner helps users address issues such as:
Production: When you have multiple facilities with similar capabilities, where should you produce each product to balance manufacturing costs, raw material costs, and transportation costs while considering limited capacity?
Sourcing: When you have multiple sources for raw material, which supplier should be used for each plant optimizing over the price of the material and transportation costs while considering supplier contracts, capacities and availability at different times of they year?
Seasonality: Determine appropriate trade-offs between pre-built inventory and excess capacity as well as determine effective asset utilization strategies throughout the year.
Equipment: Where should the firm install certain tooling or packaging equipment? What will be the overall impact of moving or adding equipment and assets within the supply chain?
Supply Planner is complementary to SAP:
Deployed as a strategic or tactical application to analyze tradeoffs by running many what-if scenarios.
Employs sophisticated optimization algorithms that perform total cost optimization.
Easy to set up a model
Fast run times measured in minutes that allow frequent and efficient what-if analysis.
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