What is the purpose of supply planning?

The purpose of supply planning is to optimize inventory levels, ensure timely availability of goods, minimize costs, and align supply with demand to meet customer needs efficiently.

What is the difference between procurement and supply planning?

Procurement focuses on sourcing goods/services, negotiating contracts, and managing supplier relationships, while supply planning involves internal production/distribution strategy to meet demand, optimize inventory, and ensure timely availability of products.

What is demand planning in supply chain?

Demand planning in the supply chain involves forecasting customer demand for products or services. It focuses on understanding market trends, customer behavior, and historical data to estimate future demand. On the other hand, supply planning is the process of determining how to meet that demand. It involves creating a production and procurement strategy, optimizing inventory levels, coordinating with suppliers, and aligning resources to ensure timely delivery. While demand planning predicts what and how much to produce, supply planning addresses how to fulfill that demand efficiently. Both processes are crucial for a well-functioning supply chain, ensuring customer satisfaction and minimizing costs.

Supply Planning

Create Supply Plans & Production Scenarios

DELMIA Supply Planning enables users to optimize the entire supply planning process, encompassing the areas of distribution, manufacturing, and procurement operations and considering capacity constraints and material availability. It integrates and connects the demand plan to optimize production supply and achieve business goals. Planners from both sides can work together to create and compare demand and supply scenarios. This scenario comparison ensures collaboration on critical decision-making, such as outsourcing production, creating more shifts or exploring additional supply sources. DELMIA Supply Planning helps users move from reacting to mitigating change by seamlessly integrating the supply plan with operational plans. The result is gaining complete control of material and capacity planning and obtaining answers for exceptional delivery performance and optimal inventory levels.

Key Benefits:

Improves sourcing, distribution, production and inventory. Apply it on a global level to optimize your supply chain, mitigate risk and create contingency plans
Explores scenarios with speed and flexibility. Create an accurate base plan, test it against any number of scenarios and evaluate each outcome to decide on the best course of action to meet business KPIs
Accounts for all rules, constraints and KPIs to create the most accurate model of your supply chain. Optimize supply plans with just a few clicks
Supports all S&OP maturity Levels. Benefit from best practice models for all S&OP activities, irrespective of your company’s level of maturity

DELMIA Supply Planning software products are packaged as Roles to get you up to speed faster and work more efficiently with all needed applications available at your fingertips. Select a package that corresponds to your role in an organization.

DELMIA Quintiq’s implementation methodology was one of the critical success factors for our strategic initiative to re-engineer our production process. Our partnership with DELMIA Quintiq has brought Symetal and Elval great operational and business improvements, as well as industry recognition.

Periklis Tsahageas
SCM Projects Manager and Viohalco APS Info Team Co-ordinator