One of the most critical tasks for any manufacturing organization is balancing assets (e.g., capacity, materials, people) with demand. Planners must determine how best to meet the demand given (1) available assets, (2) the production and distribution network, and (3) business policies.

Typically, organizations that automate supply planning can achieve a number of key benefits:

• Optimize their profits and margins while meeting the demand.
• Reduce overall costs.
• Utilize their resources (assets and key raw materials) more effectively.
• Be better prepared for the future by considering what-ifs.

With three supply planning approaches, Arkieva can help your organization reach these benefits, too. The approaches are:

1. Arkieva Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP), a manual, high level model where the planner makes the decision on how to align key assets with the demand. It helps the planner match supply with demand and highlight any imbalances. It is typically done at an aggregate level and in monthly buckets over the medium horizon (6-18 months).
2. Arkieva Replenishment Planner, a heuristic-based planning module where the plan is derived by following a sequence of rules. This is the better approach when there are not too many ‘where, when, how’ choices, or for large scale tactical decision making in the medium term (13-26 weeks).
3. Arkieva Supply Planner, an optimization-based planning module which is well suited when there are many supply choices in the system, such as where, when and how to manufacture or how to allocate the limited raw material supply. This variation is typically used in the medium to long term (6 months – 5 years).

Key Features

• Balance Supply and Demand.
• Outputs include Production, Shipment and Purchase plan.
• Materials Requirement Planning (MRP).
• Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP).
• Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP).
• What-if Scenario Analysis.

Supply Documents

• Analytics Dashboard: Provides users the opportunity to display a lot of information, organized into one tab window.
• Cube Browser: Build pivot tables with charts.
• DRP (Distribution requirements planning): Calculate any stock transfer requirements across locations of a company’s supply chain network.
• Item Group: Create a folder with multiple documents that can be launched at the same time.
• Mapping Analysis: Routing and Analysis has been added to the Arkieva Mapping Analysis component.
• Optimization: Optimization-based planning module.
• Overrides Report: Monitor overrides and prime resets made within Arkieva.
• Quick Reports: Visually displays Data Model data into rows and columns of attributes and quantities.
• RCCP (Rough Cut Capacity Plan): Gives an estimate of whether you can meet demand with the Input given.
• Replenishment Planner: Multi-echelon planning solution that ensures that the right quantity and mix of products are shipped to the right location, at the right time.
• Supply Planning: Comprehensive optimization tool for keeping supply aligned with corporate objectives in the face of change.
• Table Editor: Arkieva Consultants use System Model data to select entities and fields to create Tables that can be used in other Arkieva components, such as LP Models, Data Canvas, etc.
• Workbench: Create and edit a table that can help you predict future data.