Supply Chain Planning – An overview

Introduction

Supply chain planning enables you to plan your requirements across the distribution network, master schedule the finished products or other items in respective plants, release plans for the Material requirements planning function and effectively manage the demand supply across the entire supply chain. The master schedule may be used to manage the production schedules, which may be validated using the rough-cut capacity plan tool, which then becomes the input the material requirements planning engine. Based on the configuration done for your organization, you may view the action messages generated by the planning engine and take corresponding action on them.

Feature Highlights

• Perform distribution requirements planning.

• Perform Master production scheduling and rough cut capacity planning.

• Perform Material requirements planning and capacity resource planning.

• View Action messages.

• Analyze the demand & supply patterns for an item.

• View the Order pegging details.

List of Activities