Capacity & Supply Chain Planning

What is Capacity & Supply Chain Planning?

Capacity & Supply Chain Planning this is a powerful and comprehensive solution aimed at ensuring end-to-end planning and production provisioning, focusing on efficient resource utilization and optimization of production and supply processes.

Its includes the following functional modules:

• Orders management
• Master Production Scheduling
• Semi-finish goods Demand Planning
• Supply Chain Planning
• Capacity Requirements Planning
• Raw materials calculations:  demand, safety stock level, shortage
• Purchase requisitions management

How does the Capacity & Supply Chain Planning system work?

Pulse Digital Capacity & Supply Chain Planning manages the end-to-end process of demand analysis, provisioning and production process planning, starting from receiving orders or requests from customers. It supports the following planning strategies:

• “Just In Time (JIT)” strategy
• “As Soon As Possible (ASAP)” strategy
• Estimate delivery factory based on criteria (min costs if required date will be not delayed, …)
• Supply Chain Planning
• Capacity Requirements Planning
• Raw materials calculations:  deman

Pulse Digital encompasses management of business processes for all types of orders that arise within the supply chain:

• Quotes
• Sales orders
• Make to Stock orders
• Trial orders
• Remake orders

Pulse Digital provides consolidated status analysis of all orders and each production status control:

• Each order status control:

• Actual progress control

Pulse Digital provides replanning and orders smoothing based on Raw Materials and Capacity availability:

• Automated daily replanning tool to refresh planned dates for each line of each order (based on work centers and materials availability / demand)
• Highlight orders that can be delayed and reason of delay to be able to react on them and sync processes
• Execute planning based on full scope of alternatives (machines, materials)

Pulse Digital provides replanning and orders smoothing based on Raw Materials availability, demand and planned supply (considering alternative materials):

• Calculate exact raw material requirements for every order
• Consider alternative materials
• See and react to shortages immediately
• Purchasing based on exact requirements + safety stock level
• Promise realistic dates to customers

Pulse Digital provides replanning and orders smoothing based on Capacity availability, demand and time looses (considering alternative machines):

• Calculate exact machine time requirements for each order
• Consider alternative machines capacity
• React to capacity shortages immediately
• Make decision about needs in operators / outsourcing
• Promise realistic dates to customers

Pulse Digital provides raw materials demand planning based on history consumption, orders in hand, forecast:

• Planning calculation

• Decision-making

• Raw materials demand & shortage timeline analysis
• Purchase Requisitions generation

Pulse Digital provides Safety Stock and Reorder Point levels calculation based on industry best practices methodologies.

Pulse Digital provides you with a vast arsenal of analytics for effective planning and control of all Capacity & Supply Chain Planning processes.

What are the key functions?

Orders estimation based on available capacity and raw materials supply chain:

• Available materials stocks and planned supply constraints
• Work center groups capacity constraint
• Manufacturing load balancing, orders allocation over weekly periods
• Just In Time, Forward, Backward planning with / with some / without constraints in raw materials and work center groups
• Cross-plant planning, process of selecting delivery factory for orders
• Alternative work center groups planning
• Alternative raw materials planning
• Expected delivery date for each sales order line calculation
• Expected delivery date for each quotation line calculation
• Expected delivery date for each make to stock order line calculation
• Expected delivery date for each trial order line calculation
• Expected delivery date for each remake order line calculation
• Load visibility & Lead time of each order line

Orders confirmation for Master Production Schedule:

• Sales / Quotes / MTS / Trial / Remake order items planning in Master Production Schedule
• Considering customer production requirements: lengths, drums, packaging type, tolerances, marking.
• Choosing alternative BOMs for specific order considering customer requirements (for example: conductor insulation color, technical specifications)
• Customer orders delivery dates control
• MTS orders creation based on reorder point
• FG, SFG batches reallocation for another order with initial order replanning

Capacity & Semi-Finished Goods requirements planning length-wise:

• SFGs’ requirements planning for each planned order
• Process, Dispatch drums and packaging materials requirements planning for each SFG / FG
• Work center requirements planning for each SFG
• Raw Material requirements planning for each SFG
• Lead time calculation for each SFG and Raw Material
• FG stock availability check based on cut length and tolerance for MTO and MTS items

Safety Stock:

• ABC, XYZ classification of raw materials
• Safety Stock and Reorder Point levels calculationfor raw materials

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