Demand-Driven Supply Chain Planning for Industrial and Durables

Manufacturers with large product mixes and slower moving products face demand that is variable and hard to predict.  Dealing with geographically distributed production plants and complex allocation logic adds to the challenge of providing customer high service levels.

By offering demand-driven supply chain planning, we help manufacturers faced with heterogeneous demand and complex manufacturing networks deliver stable, reliable and very high customer service levels, and usually with 15-20% less global inventory. 

Our best-of-breed forecasting features planning models that incorporate internal and external elements such as: market trends, seasonal demand profiles, new product forecasting, and returns and substitutions. These multi-dimensional models have an exceptional ability to handle the intermittent demand of slower moving inventory.  Demand collaboration brings together demand and forecast data from multiple sources such as salespeople and distributors in a web-based consensus platform. In fulfillment planning, semi-finished inventory is optimized by propagating the service level requirements across the entire Bill-of-Material (BOM) structure. Inventory logic for customer order-driven semi-finished goods can be decoupled from production stock logic, separated by an order penetration point which balances response time and inventory costs. Rough cut capacity planning covers the entire replenishment planning process, and includes fair allocation logic.

For a complete description of our industrial and durables solution and our customer experience, please contact the ToolsGroup office nearest you.