A lot of tasks have to be planned regularly in a supply chain. On the one hand, these are frequently daily, operative planning tasks such as operative procurement and disposition, production planning, and the scheduling of new customer orders.

Sales & operations planning (S&OP) is done less frequently – in some cases on a rolling basis per month – but for a much longer horizon. The best possible forecasts of future sales are made using demand planning. In a second step of S&OP, the feasibility of these sales is checked and the entire supply chain is oriented toward them.

A central task of supply chain management is also to coordinate complex, long-running projects as well as possible across several departments with project planning and project management. Comprehensive planning thus includes all relevant value-creating processes, from development to sales. An essential success factor for efficient supply chain management is the continuous monitoring of supply chain performance with a suitable KPI system and KPI (Key Performance Indicator) tool.

The handling of the planning tasks should be reflected in order to keep planners up-to-date at all times and enable optimal production control. For this, reports are provided from the shop floor via suitable production control systems or manufacturing execution systems (MES) or information is read in from plant data collection. The efficient and fast communication of planning system and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is an essential guarantee of the great transparency and up-to-dateness of planning and master data.

waySuite supports the planning situations described thanks to integrative software modules with a high-performance interface between ERP system and the waySuite planning tool.

You can learn more here about how waySuite is structured, what the individual modules and components include, how they work together, and what the benefits of this software are for your integrated company planning.

The advanced planning & scheduling (APS) software wayRTS (Real Time Simulation) is high-performance software for production planning and control in real time of all a company’s value-creation levels. wayRTS makes planning transparent and gives users the opportunity to undertake easy interventions with planning support that can be automated at will.

Thanks to the flexible, main memory-based data structure, wayRTS enables the modeling of production processes and seamless integration and synchronization of other value-creating processes, for example in the pre-production phase (design, planning, work preparation, etc.). And all this in real time.

Individual customer requests should also be fulfilled in complex projects; that’s the goal and nevertheless always a challenge. To achieve this, the various basic conditions, including delivery dates, resource planning, and operative project management have to be perfectly attuned to one another. With valantic’s wayPRO software module, you get easy, quick mapping of this multi-project planning.

All projects are saved centrally in wayPRO, processed in real time, and thus available to all planners at any time. If different projects access the same resources, wayPRO reveals dependencies and identifies scheduling and capacity conflicts. Project managers can therefore concentrate on their essential work, plan projects realistically, prioritize decisions, and reveal alternatives for action.

With the business intelligence tool wayKPI, companies get an overall view of the performance of their whole supply chain with company-specific KPIs. wayKPI offers all tools required for creating, visualizing, analyzing, and reporting KPIs. With KPI cockpits, users can get an overview of their KPIs and their development at any time on any end user device. They can use KPI dashboards to analyze their KPIs and data down to the individual document and from every point of view. Reports can be configured according to their wishes and specifications. wayKPI’s report generator handles the regular updating and distribution of the reports.

The direct connection to wayRTS with pre-configured KPIs quickly ensures sufficient transparency with regard to the degree of implementation of the planning results in the relevant departments.

waDDO (Demand & Dispo Optimization) is the forecasting and dispo data tool of the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) software waySuite from valantic. wayDDO enables the forecasting of future demands and automation of the dispo data management through a high performing mathematical algorithm. The software includes a variety of predefined parameters and can be adapted to individual customer requirements. By using wayDDO, costs in procurement and production can be reduced, procurement and disposition planning can be optimized and a higher degree of automation can be achieved.

wayDDO uses state-of-the-art procedures to meet the different requirements of the companies. For short-term forecasts, forecasts of spontaneous demand or the identification of longer-term trends, different algorithms are optimally suited in each case. The selection of the optimal procedure is automated. Alternatively, the selection can also be done in an uncomplicated way by the decision maker and dispatcher.