Supply Planning
Meet demand with maximum profitability
Buy-Make-Store-Ship. Plan and monitor your supply chain in motion
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Optimized supply plans – ready for execution
Optimity’s Supply Planning Solution finds the most profitable way to fulfil your demand plan.
The solution uses innovative modelling and solver technologies to optimize your entire supply chain. Everything is taken into account, from procurement and production, to warehousing and distribution. And because all costs and constraints are considered, your plans will not only be 100% feasible, but also fully aligned with your business goals.
- Sourcing
- Purchase Planning
- Production Planning
- Inventory Planning
- Distribution Planning
- Analyze
- Simulate
Strategic sourcing
Optimity offers excellent support to your sourcing team as they develop supplier strategies and plan for negotiations.
Optimity can model every aspect of your sourcing process, including prices, discount models, service levels, order volume requirements, lead times, and overall supplier risks. Armed with Optimity’s powerful optimization technology, your sourcing team can determine the best supplier mix.
Optimized purchase plans
Always have the right materials on hand to keep production and distribution running smoothly.
Optimity optimizes your sourcing decisions based on supplier preferences, availability, costs and lead times. This means less capital tied up in stock and a reduced risk of material shortages. And when there’s a problem with supply, the system will automatically suggest the best alternative.
Production plans that maximize profit
Create high-quality production plans that meet your inventory and customer requirements at the lowest possible cost.
All material, capacity and lead time constraints are taken into account by the optimization engine, so your production plans will require very little manual effort. And when things don’t go to plan, you have full visibility of the impact on the rest of the supply chain. You can make adjustments yourself, or let Optimity do it for you.
Dynamically optimized stock
Optimity automatically balances the cost of carrying inventory with the risk of material and finished good shortages across your complete production and warehousing network.
Safety and cycle stock levels are dynamically optimized, taking into account minimum order quantities, replenishment lead times, storage capacity and shelf life constraints.
Optimize your entire distribution network
Optimity automatically determines the best way to fulfil customer demand.
If there’s a shortage in the primary ship location, the system will automatically suggest the most profitable alternative. The order may be delayed, shorted or shipped from a different location. The solution also determines if a redistribution of inventory between stock locations is warranted.
Take control of your supply chain
Powerful analytics allow you to monitor your complete supply chain and quickly pinpoint areas that need attention.
Drill down to investigate problem root causes and determine appropriate action. When something unforeseen happens you’re automatically alerted to the problem, and because Optimity plans the supply chain as a whole, you can clearly see both the up- and downstream impact.
Powerful ‘What-if?’ analysis
Create multiple “what-if” scenarios to test the impact of possible business scenarios and decisions.
Whether you’re thinking about adding production capacity or moving to a different distribution model, you can simulate the outcome, including best and worst case scenarios. With Optimity, planning will become a strategic tool for your business.
Solution features
What our customers are saying
With Optimity’s optimisation and modelling capabilities, we can today quickly generate an optimised and up-to-date supply plan. The plans are already validated and can be executed as they stand. This is immensely valuable to us.Orkla Patrik Paulsson, Supply Chain Manager
With more trustworthy demand plans, we can not only serve our customers better with less stock, but we can also plan our sourcing to get better prices, and avoid expensive spot market purchases.Löfbergs Jerker Friberg
The team now has foresight into how they’re going to fill the orders currently on the books, as well as visibility into surplus, so they can sell forward with more confidence.Anzco Natsuki Yoshii, Supply Chain Manager
I tell everyone, Optimity, sells itself. It is extremely easy to use, with a graphical user interface that lets you see very quickly where the problems in the supply chain lie.Legrand Ron Hurley, National Planning Manager
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What is Integrated Business Planning and why is it better than S&OP?
Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is the business-focused, strategic evolution of S&OP that will bring serious benefits to the business – especially the bottom line.
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A solution for growing companies
Optimity’s Supply Planning solution will grow along with your business. Connect to your existing PLM, ERP and CRM systems to ensure the entire company is always in sync and working from the same data. You can easily expand the solution footprint by adding more modules from Optimity’s supply chain suite.
Whether you’re moving away from planning in spreadsheets or looking to optimize your entire supply chain, Optimity has the solution.
