Business Scenario

Business Scenario

Business Scenario allows you to map out a diagram of your supply chain material flow. 





Material Flow

To begin working with a new Material Flow, first either click the +Add button to create a Blank Diagram, or click the dropdown arrow to select Blank Diagram or Auto Generate. Selecting Blank Diagram will require you to create the material flow diagram from scratch with the Business Scenario tools provided. Selecting Auto Generate will create a material flow diagram for you with the data ingested into Arkieva. 














After selecting either Blank Diagram or Auto Generate, type a name for the new material diagram. 





Click Create. The new flow diagram will appear along with any other created material flow diagrams in the dropdown next to the +Add button. 









There are five aspects of a material flow that are provided as tools to create the material flow diagram: 
  1. Vendors
  2. Plant
  3. Distribution Center
  4. Transportation Hub
  5. Demand Stream
These tools can be configured in any way you need to best fit your material flow. In the above example, selecting auto generate created a material flow with 1 vendor, 3 plants, 1 distribution center, 0 transportation hubs, and 1 demand stream. Also the connections between each of these material flows are different; the vendor has multiple material flows going into plants and a distribution center for example. 

Run Material Flow Engine

There are several options for running the material flow engine:
  1. Autonomous Agent
  2. MILP
  3. Logistics Engine
  4. Legacy
    1. DRP
    2. MRP
    3. Theory of Constraints 
  5. Heuristics
    1. Silver Meal
    2. Wagner Within
    3. Least Unit Cost
    4. Custom
  6. Non Linear Programming







Run Logistics Engine

















Settings

The Business Scenario Material Flow settings are split into two tabs: LP Settings and DRP Settings. 




LP Settings

The LP Settings have the following sections:

Enterprise Settings
  1. Select server:
  2. Select database:
Run Settings
  1. Bucket Size:
  2. Time Period:
  3. Demand Factor:
  4. Resource Capacity Factor:
  5. Supplier Capacity Factor:
Constraints
Inventory Complexity
  1. Inventory Balance:
  2. Existing Inventory:
  3. Safety Stock:
  4. Target Inventory by Period:
  5. Max Storage at Location:
Demand Complexity
  1. Demand Priority:
  2. Apply Fair Share to Demand:
  3. Apply Fair Share to Transfers:
Procurement Complexity
  1. Alternate Suppliers:
  2. Supplier Capacity:
  3. Supplier to Location Restrictions:
  4. Supplier Allocation:
  5. Purchase Orders:
Transfer Complexity
  1. Vehicle Routes:
  2. Vehicle Capacity:
  3. Alternate Routes:
  4. Transfer Orders:
  5. Loading Capacity:
  6. Loading Calendar:
  7. Transfer Lot Size:
Production Complexity
  1. Production Campaign:
  2. Include Changeover Matrix:
  3. Incremental Lot Sizes Item:
  4. Min Production if Made:
  5. Manufacturing Resource Capacity:
  6. Existing Firm Production:
  7. Shutdown and Maintenance:
  8. Bill of Material and Co-products:
  9. Alternate Bill of Materials:
  10. Date Effectivity for Bill of Materials:
  11. Non-sequence Dependent Setup Time:
  12. Item Group Capacity:
Distribution Complexity
  1. Vehicle Capacity:
  2. Vehicle Volume:
  3. Vehicle Weight:
  4. Pallet Stacking:
Objective
  1. Maximize Revenue:
  2. Maximize Profit:
  3. Maximize Total Cost:
  4. Maximize C02 Emissions:
  5. Reduce Late Delivery:
  6. Reduce Late Delivery:
  7. Reduce Inventory Carryover:
  8. Build to Safety Stock:
  9. Cost to Serve:





DRP Settings

Reset o Default:
Production
  1. Allow Forward Minimum Run: Allow a minimum production run to produce inventory arriving after the demand period.
  2. Early Append Days: Maximum number of days to look backwards to append to an existing production.
  3. Early Append Days No Minimum Run: Maximum number of periods to look backwards to append to an existing production, when there is no minimum run. 
  4. Early Production Days: Maximum number of periods to look back to schedule production before need time.
Run Sequence
  1. Initial Expedited Run: Perform an initial run for expedited orders.
  2. Fill Continuous Resources: Perform a final run to fill gaps for continuous resources.
  3. Make Production as Late as Possible: Make a final run to shift productions as late as possible. 
Inventory
  1. Enforce Minimum Inventory: Maintain inventory above minimum level.
  2. Enforce Safety Stocks: Maintain inventory above safety stock. 
  3. Allow Early Shipments: Ship inventory when produced, rather than when needed.
Global
  1. Minimize Transit Time Global: Minimize shipment transit time (as opposed to cost)
  2. Orders By Days: For each order, process for every day before proceeding to the next order. 
  3. Replenish By Days: For each stock, process replenishments for all days before proceeding to the next stock.
  4. Forecast By Days: For each forecast, process for every day before the next forecast.

Compare Scenario tab

Analyze 

Click the Arkieva AI Analysis button to have Arkieva AI give you suggestions for your Budget Scenario. 








Diagram Diagnostic info

When the material flow encounters a violation, the system will signal that to you with a red exclamation point inside a yellow circle. Click the Violation symbol to launch the Diagram Diagnostic Info drawer. Here you can select an item attribute to group the items by to evaluate the violation. 





Input Data

After generating and running the diagram, select that scenario in Input Data and Generate Preview for all constraints.




Compare Scenario

Listed in the Compare Scenario tab is the Working Scenario along with other scenarios (for example, Budget Scenario) after being generated from LP and DRP. 









The Compare screen will provide details on Summary, Demand, Supply, Resource Utilization, Inventory and Report. And on the Compare screen you can create additional widgets and reports. 










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