Our Specific Offerings in Supply Planning

Supply planning is a significant focus for us. We have two books soon to be published on supply planning, one which covers all the supply planning methods, and a second which focuses on inventory optimization and multi echelon planning. Our extensive experience and research into supply planning pays off as we provide advice which considers the history of supply planning implementations, methods, and common problems that companies have with supply planning applications.

Our supply planning consulting includes the following:

1. Software selection: We are familiar with a broad cross-section of applications and can perform a comparison versus your requirements that is a best fit for you needs.
2. Supply planning methodology comparison and explanation: Companies often have questions on which supply planning method to use, MRP/DRP heuristics, allocation, optimization or MEIO. We can listen to your requirements and explain the how the positives and negatives of each approach apply to your unique situation.
3. Supply planning parameter analysis: We often find opportunities to improve the parameter management in supply planning applications such as SNP. We emulate all the major parameters in an external prototype environment, so that we can roughly predict the results of the parameter changes, and we can do this very quickly.
4. Cost optimization improvement: Many companies go live with a cost optimizer for supply planning, but few companies are able to pull off an implementation without making a number of common mistakes. If your cost optimizer is not providing the results you had hoped for, we can review you settings and recommend positive changes to improve the output.
5. Supply planning simulation: In a number of articles we have described how underutilized supply planning simulation is. Simulation can be performed in the enterprise supply planning application, but can also be performed externally. However, few companies ever attempt an external simulation. We can evaluate your environment, and tell you what is most appropriate for you. We are also able to run external simulation software, and explain how simulation results should be documented and archived to create a long-term simulation capability within the company.
6. Supply planning application diagnostics: What is wrong with the current supply planning system and how can it be improved. We can tell you. We use our extensive experience troubleshooting supply planning applications to come up with the best adjustments you can make to the supply planning system.
7. Inventory Optimization and Multi Echelon Planning: Our offerings for this topic are covered on this page http://www.scmfocus.com/consulting/areas-of-specialty/inventory-optimization-and-multi-echelon/

How We Are Different

We simply understand supply planning better than other consulting firms. We have extensive experience diagnosing supply planning systems and have solid methods for improving how they are managed.