End-to-End Autonomous Planning & Analytics
Fortune 100 Global CPG
Managing all their supply chain planning data on a single platform, they achieved real-time visibility & agility for faster decision-making
Production Planning aims to use the available capacity optimally to build the right product mix, with the right quantity, at the right time, while minimizing cost. Depending on different time horizons and scope, the industry uses varying names for the production planning activity: Long-Run Capacity Planning, Rough-Cut Capacity Planning, Master Production Plan, Production Schedule, DDMRP…
The classical approach de-couples demand planning, inventory optimization, production planning, and MRP. Solvoyo’s DDMRP solution is the integrated and automated way of coupling all these, enabling you to sense and react to changes in demand at the speed of business. With Solvoyo’s DDMRP solution, you can finally start taking prescriptive actions against both predictable (opening/closing plants, seasonality, promotion) and unpredictable (sudden changes in demand, breakdowns in production resources) events. All the fire-fighting, sudden shifts in priorities, and acts of desperation are now in the rearview mirror. You will have a provably better overall performance and fewer incidents that require a heroic response.
"We see rapid changes in demand, and when the inventory is short, we adjust our production plans accordingly. The adjustment requires a lot of manual work, causing suboptimal plans and inefficiencies on the production site. With Solvoyo’s optimized plans, not only do we make easy and smart decisions but also respond to any rapid change at the speed of the market."
As the time frame gets shorter, the production plans need to be detailed, but with fewer options to change the production constraints. The daily production schedule for a CPG company has to be specific to a line with all of its resources and materials assigned. On the other hand, longer-term production plans can be less detailed, and the production constraints can be modified at a cost. As an example, a rough-cut plan that is 6 to 18 months out for a CPG company will have more flexibility in modifying the skilled resource pool, adding line capacity, or authorizing overtime. Solvoyo platform provides a full-scope capability to plan production at all levels of aggregation or detail, including LRCP, RCCP, DDMRP, and detailed production scheduling. Furthermore, long- and mid-term production plans can be immediately reconciled with detailed plans on the same platform.
Usually, production capacity constraints include:
Line availability
Equipment capacity
Component and material availability
Shift availability, including shift calendar
Critical skills
Labor rules, including overtime
Financial constraints on investment
Are your production operations process-heavy or assembly or a mix? Whatever is the case, the Solvoyo platform allows you to plan even the most complex production operations. Furthermore, you can perform what-if analyses with these constraints, enabling the planner to create, store, recall, and compare scenarios. Whether presenting investment options to the executive management, or supporting an S&OP or IBP process, or deciding on next week’s Master Production Schedule, our clients find the ability to compare scenarios easily on one platform and quantify the trade-offs extremely valuable.
Solvoyo’s exception-based analysis tools track how production requirements change over time, and the diagnostic tools provide insights into any misalignment between the production schedule and the material requirements. By keeping track of actions from the rough-cut plan to the detailed schedule, the Solvoyo platform keeps sufficient detail to identify critical decision points and to enrich our AI/ML algorithms for better performance over time.
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Fortune 100 Global CPG
Managing all their supply chain planning data on a single platform, they achieved real-time visibility & agility for faster decision-making
Mid-Market CPG in North America
The CPG company used our digital platform with end-to-end planning and analytics capabilities in order to increase its OTIF levels
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