Supply Chain Planning

You need to ensure a rapid replenishment cycle to optimize the delivery of goods, services and information from your supplier to your customer to:

Improve supply chain performance and collaboration
Mitigate global supply chain risk
Reduce unnecessary costs
Boost customer satisfaction

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Are you prepared for the future? Manufacturers and distributors face a volatile economic environment in which change is the only certainty. Supply chain planning has become a competitive weapon in our modern, connected and digital world. Effective supply chain planning solutions provide instant visibility and intuitive decision support, enabling your company to become more agile and exploit the complexity of modern supply chains. As a next generation cloud Digital Supply Chain Planning solution, QAD DSCP provides everything you need to meet new and developing requirements by combining advanced digital technologies and proven industry best practices. QAD DSCP allows you to anticipate rather than react.

Capabilities

Demand Planning

IMPROVE FORECAST ACCURACY. Demand Planning excels at helping your company rapidly and accurately understand future demand. The solution employs intelligent algorithmic methods and machine learning to address complex sales behavior. These techniques apply to items with short or zero history, complex seasonality, periodic sales, high volume low frequency and make-to-order products. More accurate forecasts drive improved accuracy downstream that improves profitability and visibility.

Distribution Planning

BOOST SUPPLY CHAIN EFFICIENCY AND PERFORMANCE. Logistics planners are struggling every day with expedited freight events, poorly utilized transportation resources, slow moving stock, excess product and competing customer priorities. Distribution Planning provides an intuitive geo-visualization of the entire supply network enabling ease of comprehension of material flows, inventory and order exceptions. It also offers your organization a collaborative planning experience for both internal and external supply chain stakeholders.

Production Planning

REDUCE MANUFACTURING COSTS AND WASTE. Production Planning provides finite capacity optimized planning to determine all manufacturing material flows across production stages subject to resource capacity, skills and tools, labor and material constraints. Intelligent optimization algorithms determine the perfect plan for your enterprise across the planning horizon enabling overtime, outsourcing and seasonal stock-builds as necessary. Production Planning allows for your manufacturing and operations to stay on pace to allow for the synchronization of up and downstream plans.

Procurement Planning

IMPROVE THE ALIGNMENT OF DEMAND WITH SUPPLY. Procurement Planning provides comprehensive supply planning to calculate optimal distribution, manufacturing and procurement plans. It provides planners a graphic and intuitive approach to visualize potential expedite or postponement situations based upon demand fluctuations. Procurement Planning holistically incorporates procurement plans to ensure that materials are ready to be used when and where needed.

Financial Planning

DRIVE COST REDUCTIONS AND PROFITABLE GROWTH. Financial Planning enables operational budgets and sales and cost targets to be defined or synchronized with the finance system. It aligns plans and measures progress of revenue, profit and supply chain costs against budgets. Your organization gains the ability to view a single version of the truth in finance or operational metrics, targets and calendars.

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)

IMPROVE BUSINESS ALIGNMENT AND LOWER SUPPLY CHAIN COSTS. Faced with an unstable economic environment in which change is the only certainty, you need to organize and implement efficient, accurate planning processes. One issue that many companies wrestle with is that key functions in the company – Sales, Operations and Finance – often make their own plans which maximize their interests but do not necessarily align with the goals of the company. S&OP gives you the tools to break down silos and enables you to synchronize your entire ecosystem with internal departments and your trading partners.

Advanced Scheduling

ELIMINATE PRODUCTION INEFFICIENCIES. Accurately consider constraints that may affect production scheduling, such as limited capacity, changeover schedules or supplier lead times. QAD Advanced Scheduling fully incorporates these constraints into the scheduling process so your organization can respond with agility to unexpected disruptions and optimize production flow.

Nucleus Research: The Value of Supply Chain Digitization

Dive into this Nucleus Research report focused on the importance of progressing your digital supply chain efforts. Find out how you can better harness your supply chain and operations to deliver value for your organization. Digitization of the supply chain enables your company to increase forecast accuracy, reduce inventory costs, lower transportation spend and boost ESG compliance.

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Nucleus Research: The Value of Supply Chain Digitization

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