it provides all business levels with the highest visibility on the process of fulfillment of market requests and demand: features to manage independent demand both in terms of order promising, giving customers a promised date, and in terms of sales orders' progress report.
Interactive ATP/CTP (Availabile/Capable To Promise) to check customer orders' feasibility:
it calculates customer orders dispatching dates according to the actual availability of end product, components and materials quantities and to production resources capability.
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP):
Marketing and Production plans are integrated in a single plan (Sales & Operations Plan) for production, inventory stocks and delays, by balancing demand and offer.
Master Production Schedule (MPS):
feature for demand management in terms of sales orders, sales forecast, internal orders, inventory reorder levels, which are the main components for the Master Production Schedule.
Fast-MRP, running in RAM, with interactive analysis of results (proposals and exceptions):
it integrates the output of the planning and scheduling process to complete the planning activity by checking if the requirements are fulfilled and, alternatively, by providing a proposal to fulfill the requirement with the missing material.
Interactive Graphic Full-pegging to track requirements-availabilities:
it compares, at all levels of the Bill of Materials, each requirements (in terms of sales forecast, customer orders, production commitment) with its availability (inventory stocks, production orders, outsourcing orders, purchase orders).
Finite and Infinite Resource Capacity Planning (CRP):
innovative approach to manufacturing resource capacity planning , both infinite and Finite, in accordance with backward, forward and mixed rules