Aspen Supply Chain Planner™
Maximize business profitability by determining the optimal production plan for even the most complex supply chains
Aspen Supply Chain Planner develops an optimal plan for use of labor and equipment, raw materials or feedstock, inbound/outbound transportation, storage capacity, and other constraints. An easy-to-use interface with streamlined workflows helps you quickly navigate through supply chain complexity and respond faster to unexpected market conditions to accurately meet production and management goals. Aspen Supply Chain Planner is a core element of AspenTech’s aspenONE® Supply Chain applications.
Features
- Enterprise Planning and Decision Support: Builds optimal procurement, production, distribution, inventory, and sales plans. Calculates optimal inventory target levels for raw materials, intermediates, and finished goods.
- Intuitive User Interface: An easy-to-use interface leverages a Microsoft look and feel for a rich and engaging user experience with personalized layouts. A ribbon provides easy navigation, enabling users to quickly discover and access advanced functions.
- Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP): Supports S&OP process with production and distribution plans by product, customer, family, region, or any other category. The solution determines the optimal use of resources and sourcing patterns, considering enterprise-wide capacities of production and distribution assets. Business objectives, such as cost minimization or profit maximization, are used to develop the plans.
- Constraint Analysis: Advanced visual exception reporting improves support of the S&OP process. Planners can quickly identify the most critical and urgent problems along with pre-configured analysis steps on how to resolve them.
- Models Simple or Complex Business Situations: Effective in both made-to-stock and made-to-order manufacturing environments. Unlimited number of supply/demand points and intermediate storage facilities. Robust purchasing handling accommodates multiple suppliers and multiple pricing tiers.
- Enterprise-Scale Deployment: Supports enterprise-wide connectivity and management of data and models. Inter-application integration supported by a common data model. Robust data exchange with ERP and other data systems through Aspen Supply Chain Connect.
- Powerful Scenario Analysis: Boasts value-driven analysis capabilities that enable planners to develop and compare unlimited scenarios for operations across multiple plants. The differences between various “what if” scenarios are easily discerned through side by side comparison and quick and easy data editing, filtering and drill-down capabilities.
- Reporting: Reports are available in graphical and tabular formats and easily customized to meet organizational requirements. Personalization of the work area allows users to save their favorite layouts and screen configurations, which can be retrieved with a single click. Web-based S&OP and Supply Planning reports are available for enterprise-wide access to data and analysis during the planning process.
Benefits
- Maximize Business Profitability: Optimizes supply to profitably meet customer demand and business revenue goals. Enables planners to quickly re-optimize plans to respond to unplanned events in a timeframe that provides business impact.
- Meet Dynamic Inventory Targets: As business changes, inventory targets can quickly be re-optimized and taken into account in the S&OP process to support management goals.
- Improve Business Process: Provides a framework for cost reduction, service improvement, and reduced effort in plan development and increased plan analysis; more plans can be generated and analyzed, looking at more possible alternatives for the business.
- Improve User Productivity: Facilitates quick analysis and decision-making with an intuitive user interface and easy access to the most important information.
- Simplify Budget Management: Supports budget preparation without the traditional labor-intensive steps to complete and provides a budget tracking mechanism for past and future production and sales.
- Enable Enhanced Collaboration: Improved decision-making capability and enterprise-wide collaboration supported by common data and visibility of data and plans.