Your planners want a plan they can trust, made in time to matter.
Book an Excellence WorkshopDemand shifts and suppliers slip, while every team plans in its own tool and at its own pace.
Your planners spend the week reconciling numbers and fighting fires. That leaves little time for the judgment calls planning is for.
valantic helps you get the planning job done. We have solved planning problems with customers across many industries, and we stay with you from strategy through implementation and beyond.
Balancing supply and demand
Enables the synchronization of sales, production, and financial plans to achieve an optimal balance between supply and demand.
This module supports the coordination of sales, production, and financial plans on a single platform. It enables companies to link strategic planning with operational decisions and simulate scenarios for various business models. By integrating real-time data and KPIs, companies can make informed decisions that take both demand and capacity planning into account. In addition, it offers collaborative features to involve various departments and external partners in the planning process. The result is a closer alignment of supply and demand, as well as improved cost and resource efficiency.
For the CEO, CSO, CFO and S&OP coordinator
Leadership meets to commit to the plan.
The numbers in the deck are already days old.
AI surfaces real-time KPIs and summarizes what matters for the decision.
Accurately forecasting demand
Provides accurate demand forecasts through advanced analytics and machine learning to prevent over- or underproduction.
This module helps companies accurately forecast demand based on historical data, external market information, and advanced algorithms. It uses machine learning and statistical models to identify trends and seasonal fluctuations. By integrating real-time and customer-specific data, companies can tailor their production and distribution plans more effectively. Forecasting accuracy is improved by incorporating strategic planning and market insights and by fostering collaboration between different departments within the company. This ensures that all perspectives are taken into account and that consensus is reached among sales, marketing, and demand planning. The module also offers the ability to simulate "what-if" scenarios to assess the impact of market changes or capacity constraints. This leads to optimized demand planning and a reduction in inventory levels and misplanning.
For the demand planner
New products launch every season.
They have no sales history to forecast from.
AI finds predecessor products and builds a stable time series from their history, so the forecast has something solid to stand on.
Optimizing on-hand inventory
Optimizes inventory levels by calculating the ideal stock levels across the warehouse network to reduce costs while ensuring delivery capability.
With this module, companies can optimize their inventory levels by calculating the ideal stock levels throughout the entire supply chain. Multi-level optimization enables the calculation of inventory targets while taking into account interdependencies within the network. It considers factors such as safety stock, service level targets, and demand uncertainties. The integrated analysis tools help minimize inventory costs while ensuring delivery capability. It also supports inventory segmentation, allowing different product groups to be planned individually. This achieves a balanced approach between cost reduction and customer satisfaction.
Responding quickly to disruptions
Enables a rapid response to supply chain disruptions by simulating alternative scenarios and accelerating decision-making processes.
This module helps companies respond quickly to changes or disruptions in dynamic market environments. It enables real-time planning and prioritization of customer orders based on current capacities and material availability. By modeling locations and multi-level bills of materials, it creates an effective supply plan for the entire network. Companies can simulate multiple scenarios to identify the best options in the event of unexpected occurrences. By combining planning and production processes, delays can be minimized and customer requirements met more quickly. Planners can choose between three algorithm options: unrestricted heuristics, prioritization, or optimization. Prioritization and optimization enable the system to generate a feasible and constrained supply plan in a single step, taking all modeled constraints into account.
For the supply planner
The optimizer returns a feasible plan.
Explaining its bottlenecks takes hours.
AI reads the optimizer results and suggests concrete actions to clear each bottleneck.
For sales and supply planners
Sales wants to run a promotion.
Nobody knows yet whether supply can support it.
Sales planners check feasibility directly in Joule, and supply planners create the scenario to fulfill it.
Proactively managing risks
Provides real-time visibility and collaboration across the supply chain to proactively manage risks and bottlenecks.
SAP Supply Chain Control Tower creates comprehensive visibility across the entire supply chain and provides real-time insights into operational processes. It offers functions for monitoring KPIs, detecting deviations, and proactively managing disruptions. Companies can identify risks and vulnerabilities within the supply chain early on and take corrective action. Complex supply chains can be overwhelming due to a flood of information. Machine learning algorithms for personalized notifications reduce information noise and enable more relevant insights. The Control Tower also supports collaborative decision-making by providing relevant data and analytics to all stakeholders. This leads to effective management and control of the supply chain.
For the sales planner
A question comes up mid-meeting.
Building the chart used to mean a ticket and a wait.
AI builds the chart from a plain-language request, so nobody has to configure it by hand.
Stock piles up in the wrong places and customers wait for their orders. Your planners keep firefighting.
And planners who spend their time deciding.
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In the Excellence Workshop, you work with our experts to map your planning challenges and build your implementation roadmap.
