Search Results for: supply-planning

  • Book on How to Perform Capacity Planning in MRP, APS & S&OP Software

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Commonly Used by Supply Planning Systems
    How Supply Planning Resources Differ from Production Planning Resources
    Essential Considerations for Constraint-Based Systems
    Production Batch Sizes versus Full Resource Constraints
    Constraint-Based Planning in the Application
    Continuous versus Discrete Optimization
    The Challenges of Constraint-based Planning
    Conclusion

    Chapter 4: Resources

    The Resource Types
    Production Batch Sizes versus Full Resource Constraints
    How Supply Planning Resources Differ from Production Planning Resources
    APO Resources in Detail
    Time Settings on the Resource
    Bucket versus Time Continuous Resources
    Mixed Resources
    Single (Activity) versus Multi (Activity) Resources
    Single-mixed or Multi-mixed Resources
    Resource Settings and What …

  • How to Understand Test Results: Monthly Versus Weekly Forecasting Buckets

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … pick up the most recent sales history and incorporates it into its forecast.
    Weekly Pattern Recognition: There are patterns within the month that are not accounted for if the forecast is generated monthly (and then as is usually the case disaggregated to a weekly planning bucket when sent to the supply planning system.

    The first reason is incorrect. This is because sales history is continuously updated. That is sent from the sales or order management system to the forecasting system. At least that has been the case in all the companies that I have worked for. Thus incorporating the latest …

  • How to Understand Gartner's Mistake on Big Data Forecasting

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … talk about changing the forecast to forecast at a different attribute will often lose sight of supply chain forecasting’s fundamental requirement.
    The company is stocking products, and it, therefore, must (at some point) generate a product forecast for inventory management to work correctly.

    As with supply chain forecasting systems, supply planning systems produce a supply plan in the form of goods and quantities to be ordered. This means a product forecast at a location. The relevant factor is over replenishment lead time (let us hold off on forecasting lead time as it goes how the forecast accuracy is measured …

  • How to Understand the Brightwork Software Category Analyses

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    … explanation of the history of the software category.
    How the category is related to other enterprise software categories.
    Major trends in each category.

    Software Category Analysis
    All of the analysis by software category.

    Software Category Link

    CRM CRM Category Analysis

    BI Light BI Light Category Analysis

    BI Heavy BI Heavy Category Analysis

    Product Planning and Scheduling Production Planning Category Analysis

    Supply Planning Supply Planning Category Analysis

    Demand Planning Demand Planning Category Analysis

    PLM PLM Category Analysis

    Category Analysis Financial Application Category Analysis

    Small and Medium ERP Small and Medium ERP Category Analysis

    Big ERP Big ERP Category Analysis

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  • How to Use the Brightwork Implementation Risk Ratings

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    … – SAP APO PP/DS

    PlanetTogether MUFI Rating & Risk – PlanetTogether Galaxy APS Superplant

    Supply Planning

    Demand Works MUFI Rating & Risk – Demand Works Smoothie SP

    ToolsGroup MUFI Rating & Risk – ToolsGroup SO99 (Supply Planning)

    SAP MUFI Rating & Risk – SAP SmartOps

    SAP MUFI Rating & Risk – SAP SNP

    Demand Planning

    ToolsGroup MUFI Rating & Risk – ToolsGroup SO99 (Forecasting)

    JDA MUFI Rating & Risk – JDA Demand Management

    Demand Works MUFI Rating & Risk – Demand Works Smoothie

    Business Forecast Systems MUFI Rating & Risk – Forecast Pro TRAK

    Tableau MUFI Rating & Risk – Tableau (Forecasting)

    SAP MUFI Rating & Risk – SAP APO DP

    PLM

    Hamilton Grant MUFI Rating & Risk – Hamilton Grant Recipe Management …

  • How to Use the Brightwork Honest Vendor Ratings

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Honest Vendor Ratings – QlikTech QlickView

    Honest Vendor Ratings – SAP Crystal Reports

    Honest Vendor Ratings – Actuate ActuateOne

    BI Heavy

    Honest Vendor Ratings – Teradata Teradata

    Honest Vendor Ratings —
    IBM Cognos

    Honest Vendor Ratings – MicroStrategy MicroStrategy

    Honest Vendor Ratings – SAS SAS BI

    Honest Vendor Ratings – Oracle Oracle BI

    Honest Vendor Ratings – SAP BI/BW, Business Objects

    Production Planning

    Honest Vendor Ratings – PlanetTogether Galaxy APS

    Honest Vendor Ratings – AspenTech AspenOne

    Honest Vendor Ratings – Preactor Preactor

    Honest Vendor Ratings – Delfoi Planner

    Honest Vendor Ratings – SAP PP/DS

    Honest Vendor Ratings – PlanetTogether Galaxy APS

    Supply Planning

    Honest Vendor Ratings – Demand Works Smoothie SP

    Honest Vendor …

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    How Accurate Was Hasso Plattner on Customers Being Too Risk Adverse for SAP S/4 HANA?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … your MRP System, I explain that a significant factor that holds back running MRP is that MRP is so frequently run from the ERP system — and ECC and S/4 HANA are ERP systems.

    This is because ERP systems provide poor quality MRP functionality compared to applications that specialize in supply planning. For instance, if I talked about a 24 hour MRP runtime with the best breed vendors that I know of that can run MRP, they would fall laughing. We better move one, because I am starting to laugh thinking about this proposal myself.
    There is something very fishy …

  • Is IBP an Upgrade Over APO?: Updated Article

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … can alter these contradictory orientations. These goals are inconsistent with one another, so the question arises about who will get to impose their will upon the other groups. For a long time, there were few good S&OP applications (something that has recently changed). Many companies have implemented an S&OP process without understanding what S&OP is. For example, one of my clients held an S&OP meeting that was simply a review of forecasts – and had nothing to do with capacity, supply planning, or finance. Also, many companies engage in an S&OP process without actually having …

  • How to Compare Global Versus Single Software Instances of ERP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … to meet this objective. When implementing supply planning globally, the following issues arise.

    When the processing is performed daily, will the processing load impact the system’s responsiveness, and will users be locked out of their user interface? Setting up a global system means analyzing the technical implications of how supply planning processing jobs are set up. This includes locking planning books for product locations processed by a supply planning method. Evaluating issues of contention leads to implications for hardware sizing, the methods selected, and how the various planning runs are set up.
    Supply planning systems have a structured way …

  • SAP Expert Documentation Service

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … report – however, this would be more work, and there would be a loss in flexibility in terms of the ability of the business to make changes to the master list, to add new columns, etc.. However, it is also understood that there is a preference to use the system, rather than spreadsheets whenever possible.
    CHAPTER 4: Decentralization of Some IT Demand Planning Batch Jobs
    Company XYZ uses a number of batch jobs in order to schedule various activities. However, supply planning at Company XYZ has been using a user-distributed batch job running transaction, called the 700 User Tool, for