Value Enhancers
More smartness, more value
Achieve more sustainable value with built-in and premium value enhancers. Based on AI, data science, deep learning and cognitive features, they solve specialist business-critical challenges to make smart plans even smarter.
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Collaboration and simulation
Balance your options. Make wise strategic choices fast. Connect all the dots.
Develop smart scenarios. Align all stakeholders within and beyond your ecosystem.
Workflow management
One unified workflow for an integrated planning cycle
Apply one unified workflow to integrate all supply chain planning processes. Clear guidance at every stage. Automated and interactive collaboration tools for better accountability, visibility, and optimization.
Simulation management
Create and compare scenarios fast and effectively
Run multiple simulations simultaneously. Develop alternative scenarios quickly while balancing conflicting objectives and constraints. Instantly compare multiple ‘what if’ scenarios on key KPIs.
Cross-functional collaboration
Assure cross-functional collaboration at company level
Break down silos. Unlock synergies between purchasing, production, marketing, sales, finance, planning, warehousing, logistics and QA/QC. Start acting as one company.
Supplier and customer collaboration
Shape and optimize multi-enterprise collaboration in the cloud
Close loops, apply and secure commitments, contractual obligations, and service levels. Seek win-win scenarios and respond quickly to events, opportunities, and risks.
360° Control
Insights and leverage for aligned decision-making
Gain full control with analytics and response. Guide and orchestrate your teams. React the fast and feasible way.
360° Analytics
Guide and align your planning organization
Gain deep end-to-end supply chain visibility with clear executive views. Track alerts based on your favorite KPIs or rely on dynamic pulse notifications in response to anomalies and business changes. Fast-forward to root causes and create alternate solutions fast. Evaluate scenarios based on science, quantitative insights, and multiple KPIs.
360° Response
Resolve your issues in an instant
Create and evaluate what-if scenarios fast. Prepare bite-sized executive reports with intuitive, precision graphs. Inform, involve, and align all stakeholders at their level of expertise.
Allocation and order promising
Consume forecast, manage orders and material flows smartly
Deal efficiently with order promising and forecast consumption, material allocation, quota management, and pegging.
Forecast consumption
Accurate and precise
Reconcile demand forecasts with actual sales orders using relevant business rules. Supply accurate demand signals to your planners.
Material allocation
Attribute to optimize
Make optimal or rule-based combinations of materials and orders, based on their attributes or characteristics, in industries such as metals, packaging, and life sciences.
Order promising
Performant for MTS and MTO
Promise reliably against requested quantities and delivery dates, based on ATP, CTP, and PTP rules. Anticipate changing demand and seasonal effects (MTS). Optimize expected capacity allocation (MTO).
Quota management
Controlled demand volume allocation
Apply smart business rules to secure product availability. Leverage autonomous promising based on predefined monthly or quarterly demand quotas.
Pegging
Linking individual planning elements
Optimize planning and allocation of batches by propagating demand and supply characteristics such as expiration, certainty, and priority, in real time and across multiple supply chain echelons.
MEIO
Manage your stocks under all circumstances with multi-echelon inventory optimization
Safety stock management
Master complexity
Monitor and maintain safety stocks across distribution and manufacturing nodes, optimizing for both single and multi-echelon modes and against lot-size and decoupling points.
Simulation and analytics
High-speed intelligence
Rapid simulation of desired service levels, demand deviations, and lead time deviations. Gain valuable insights, such as awareness of working capital.
Convergent, divergent and hybrid networks
Effective in any environment
Manage inventories in complex networks, covering both convergent and divergent networks as well as hybrid combinations.
Solvers and ML
Mathematical programming (LP-MIP), meta-heuristics, deep learning, AI and ML make life easier.
Add value with embedded planning solvers and specialized premium solvers.
Data Genie
Perfect your digital twin
Increase the accuracy of your predictive models and digital twin, keep your supply chain planning master data in perfect sync with reality and speed up product phase-ins.
Value optimization
Focus on value
Base plans on business value. Be guided by revenue, margins, profits, cash flow, market share, and more as variables to build decisions on both financial and non-financial parameters.
Industry-specific solvers
Dedicated solvers at the heart of your business
Handle cutting optimization, blending, routing generation, transport scheduling, and more, smartly and effectively.
Transport planning
Optimize route planning and individual truckloads, allocate product to road, rail and sea transport, and identify the best transport providers.
Blending
Calculate the optimal mix of input materials for intermediate products, taking into account material prices, inventories and technological constraints.
Cutting optimization
Look beyond mere waste reduction when tackling cutting challenges with holistic cost optimization, particularly in the packaging and metals industries.
Routing generation
Dynamically generate rule-based production routings for your products, taking into account input materials, machine capabilities and homologation.
User experience
Matching interaction to your needs
Use the right view and navigation for every planning role at each level of responsibility and expertise. Explore the logic of our solvers through to our XAI.
Intuitive UI
Always the right view
Match UI to user roles for faster and more accurate planning, analysis and decisions. Create alignment and transparency with respect to every level of responsibility and expertise. Our straightforward UI provides a common look and feel across your user community while offering the right-fit dashboards and navigation controls at user group or individual level.
Explainable AI (XAI)
Talk to our Einsteins
Discover the logic behind our solvers. XAI offers a view under the hood. It explains our solvers' logic and breaks down the decision chain to intuitive steps and graphs. Collaborating with intelligent software gets much more comfortable when you understand the why and how behind it all.