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Optiant's PowerChain Planner is a tactical policy management tool, that integrates seamlessly with existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (ARP) systems, enabling corporate planners to set critical safety stock targets in response to real-world demand fluctuations, ensuring the right products on the right shelves at the right time.
PowerChain Planner ensures the right targets get into the execution systems for all items, at all locations, within your supply chain.
Optiant's Policy Deployment capability allows supply chain planners to take optimal policies and implement them enterprise-wide, in a repeatable workflow. Recognizing that supply chain planners have many other tasks to perform other than managing inventory targets, Optiant's Policy Deployment solution handles the mechanical aspects, and raises exceptions to tell the planners when inputs or outputs of the model are falling outside reasonable parameters.
Exception-Based Workflow - Allows inventory planners to ignore the majority of SKUs and only focus on potential issues and problems where their expertise is required for resolution purposes. The PowerChain Suite processes the significant bulk of items without exception, eliminating non-value-added work.
- User-defined parameters for monitoring demand and inventory target exceptions that might disrupt the chain performance
- Simple workflow for quickly evaluating and resolving exceptions, proactively mitigating potential risks to supply chain success
Automated Demand Profiling - Calculates the demand parameters at the correct level of granularity to use for inventory target optimization against: external demand data; seasonality; new product introduction and end-of-life status; and item supercession.
- Flexible enough to characterize and calculate the demand profile - the demand mean and uncertainty - based on historical actual orders, historical forecasts, or future forecasts
- Accommodates demand data from external systems in varying levels of granularity and product family aggregation.
User Interface built for business people - Designed specifically for simple navigation, with powerful filtering capabilities for users to hone in on critical product information. In one screen, users can view inventory targets over future horizons for every product in the supply chain and edit them based on changing external information and the planner's own expertise. Additionally, users can compare newly generated targets to those currently in production in the execution system. |
