Planning | Supply Planning
Supply Planning Software for Fast, Feasible, and Profitable Plans
Quick supply response for the multi-enterprise supply chain
Managing complex multi-tier supply chains is fraught with challenges, especially when it comes to products with highly variable demand and short lifecycles. With its unique customer-driven, rules-based approach to planning, e2open Supply Planning quickly delivers feasible and profitable plans while enabling users to easily identify and address supply bottlenecks.
Lost orders, disappointed customers, and high costs
Difficulties finding the source of constraints and delays
Supply chain complexities can make it extremely challenging to pinpoint the real source of constraints and delays in production and delivery. Is it a component shortage delaying high-priority orders or a capacity bottleneck? Would a part substitution, alternate supplier, expedited production, or reallocation of supply be the answer? Manufacturers can be stymied by all the interdependencies, especially when using a combination of internal and outsourced manufacturing. Often the result is wasted time, lost orders, disappointed customers, and high costs.
Optimize plans using multi-tier data
Drawing upon the latest data from all supply chain tiers, Supply Planning creates multi-tier plans that respect constraints and take supply alternatives into account while allowing for rules-based prioritization.
Reduce costs and inventory
An increase in materials and capacity planning efficiency enables you to save on expedite costs, plan with greater agility, and reduce inventory.
Increase revenue and productivity
Maximized demand fulfillment helps you increase revenue, and productivity goes up dramatically as you leverage automation with exception management.
Enforce business policies automatically
The automated enforcement of business policies enables you to prioritize by customer, segment, channel, revenue, previous commitments, and other parameters.
Use unconstrained or constraint-based planning
The system translates consensus demand plans into materials and capacity requirements across the supply chain and supports constraint-based planning based on user-defined priorities.
Weigh alternatives using what-if scenarios
Planners can run what-if scenarios to test the impact of various priorities and constraints, assess strategies, and simulate shortages to minimize costs, effort, and delays.
Align with your partners
You have the option to use e2open’s trading partner network to align with suppliers and contract manufacturers and give them demand visibility to avoid the bullwhip effect.
Other applications within the supply ecosystem
Supply Sensing
Allocation and Order Promising
Distribution Planning
Sales and Operations Planning
Customers
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Plan efficiently across multiple tiers