Too often we hear customers lament that if can’t correctly plan through the end of the month, how can they plan for 6–12 months from now? We actually see it in reverse. If you don’t effectively plan 6–12 months out, it will be nearly impossible to react to conditions beyond your control in the current month. We have extensive experience across many industries working to help companies build planning capabilities that enable and integrate their long-term and short-term planning.
Balance Supply and Demand Through
SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING
Managing all the moving parts of your supply chain requires the nuanced touch of a symphony conductor deploying capital to properly accommodate supply and demand. Plan effectively and your company hums along in near perfect harmony with customer expectations.
Integrated business planning. Demand forecasting. Capacity management. The operational and tactical horizons in supply chain are the heartbeat of the company. A failure in any one area can throw the delicate balance completely out of whack. It takes the right tools, processes and measurements to optimize your operations. ArganoSCMO2 can help you establish best practices from the bottom up to ensure your supply chain minimizes friction.
FIX
Do you find the more commercial adjusts their forecasts, the less accurate they become? Is inventory always in exactly the wrong place all the time? Does operations find your ERP useful to record what happened, but terrible at forecasting? Let us help you reenable your planning tools and processes.
BUILD
Has your team abandoned its planning platform in favor of Excel as the tool of choice? Is the disconnect between Planning, Commercial, Procurement, Manufacturing, Finance and executive leadership recurring every planning cycle? We’re experts in rebuilding these processes.
PERFORM
Interested in how different planning scenarios impact OTIF, revenue, cost, working capital and supply chain risk? Would setting new inventory targets for raw materials, sub-assemblies and finished goods result in better overall service and lower overall cost? ArganoSCMO2 can fine tune your approach.
CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT SCOPE
Integrated Business Planning
A strong integrated business planning process that aims 3–24 months out is a game-changer. This decision-making framework enables a business to meet their strategic objectives, focus activities to the approved executive plan, and respond positively to changing conditions with plenty of time to pivot.
Demand Management
Robust demand management plans demand across all horizons around sound forecasts, and builds consensus across the organization for that plan. Demand is then influenced through marketing and selling tactics, product positioning, promotions and by correctly aligning orders to match available supply.
Capacity and Supply Planning
Understanding and managing the capacity of your supply network is critical. With a strong capacity supply model, your organization can effectively manage demand spikes, input shortages, maintenance and production outages and transit variability across all horizons without sacrificing delivery performance.
Inventory Optimization
Inventory is the lubrication in the supply process, and multi-echelon optimization is the leading practice to optimize inventory across the end-to-end supply chain. Manipulate at different segments of the supply chain, not just raw materials or finished goods, to accommodate time-phased demands.
Materials Plan and Schedule
Determining the right bill-of-materials routing will speed up the production process. For many companies, MRP can start as blessing and quickly become a curse as the master planning data needed to effectively drive this process is too frequently ignored. Our suite of solutions fix and optimize MRP production flow.
Production Plan and Schedule
Effective planning allows companies to align production requirements across multiple plants and operating assets. Efficient scheduling lines up production on machines and assets to best optimize throughput. We offer a vast expertise in designing, modeling and deploying these processes across myriad industries.
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Contact us
Corporate Office
6100 W. Plano, Suite 1800, Plano, TX 75093
Phone
404.596.5383
E-mail
SAP-connect@argano.com
Canadian Office
1600-925 Georgia Street West, Vancouver, BC V6C 3L2
