Integrated Supply Chain Planning

End to End INTEGRATED PLANNING Start Right, End Right

A company’s integrated planning capabilities dictate its ability to achieve customer service, costs and inventory objectives. At Plan2Execute, we will identify what constrains your E2E planning process today and identify opportunities for improvement across one or several of the planning areas below.

  • Demand Planning & Forecasting
  • Inventory Planning
  • Sales and Operations Planning
  • Supply Planning including
    • Distribution Requirements Planning
    • Master Production Scheduling
    • Deployment Planning
  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • Raw / WIP Management

Improving the planning process and methodology is critical if

  • Forecast accuracy is low
  • The inventory levels are high
  • The customer service is low due to stock outs and backorders
  • Lead times are high
  • The inventory mix presents a challenge
  • SKU productivity is low
  • Slow and obsolete inventory is high
  • Manufacturing or warehouse capacity is constrained
  • Distribution costs are high due to out of territory shipments and multiple shipments per order

Integrated Supply Chain Planning is complex, interconnected and cuts across strategic, tactical and operational layers. The solutions are a true combination of analytics, domain expertise and systems.

We can help. Our specialists have published and coauthored books in supply chain planning and inventory management that are considered the gold standard in the industry.

To learn more about our services in supply chain planning and how we can help you, contact us and one of our supply chain specialists will get back to you.

Custom modules in one system

Often times, a company may have a system – legacy or otherwise, that may not have the required functionality, regardless of the price. In such cases, it becomes difficult to justify replacing the existing system for want of a few specific functionalities. For instance, certain forecasting requirements may require advanced analytics and even if you have some kind of a planning system, the specific required algorithms may not exist. By leveraging our predictive analytics modules, you can transfer just the appropriate data required, generate the forecast and send it back to your existing planning system seamlessly. You don’t have to undertake the expensive and time consuming initiative to replace entire systems and need not put up with lack of functionalities either.

Custom modules across multiple systems

Sometimes, a new functionality will need to be implemented across multiple existing systems. For instance, the Bill of Material (BOM) for a company selling finished goods will become a new critical functionality when they start to Assemble to Order (ATO)…