Supply Planning provides you with an understanding of what your inventory needs are, where it's needed, their timings, and how to fulfill the demand plan.
Process overview
The process encompasses a range of activities that ensure that materials, goods, and labor are available in the right quantities and at the right time to meet customer demand, while also optimizing costs and inventory levels. Supply planning includes several processes to:
- Manage product effectivity.
- Set distribution center (DC) disaggregation rates.
- Carry out inventory planning.
- Manage network replenishment and inventory transfers.
- Generate inventory reports.
Prepare
In the preparation phase, you create and manage policies, manage inventory statuses, manage open purchase orders, write off inventory, calculate inventory, set requirements, and adjust net requirements.
Plan
In the planning phase, you develop the supply plan across a range of areas:
- Effectivity and Analytics
- Safety Stock Simulation
- DC Disaggregation
- Forecast Consumption
- Current Inventory Reporting
- Inventory Policy Management
- Inventory Scenario Definition
- Multitier Planning
- Inventory Planning
- Inventory Expiry
- Inventory Report
- Rough Cut Capacity Planning
Review
This process step takes data generated by the Demand Plan, and involves key analysis and review, including waterfall analysis, forecast consumption, and demand review. This creates an inventory report which can be used independently and meets the requirements for supply planning.
See Supply Planning processes for an index of all the available processes.
