Supply chain planning (SCP) is the component of supply chain management (SCM) involved with determine how best to fulfill the requirements created from the Demand Plan. Its objective to to balance supply and demand in a manner that achieves the financial and service objectives of the enterprise. A supply plan is another feeder in the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process.
DemandCaster includes a number of Supply Planning components:
- Multi-criteria product segmentation
- What to-stock versus not-to-stock analysis
- Dynamic safety stock and reorder point calculations:
- Material Requirements Planning
- Kanban calculations and capacity planning
- Mulitple locations planning