1 - Easy to use planning functionality

Operations Planning is a crucial business function, every company employs a form of planning process that is unique to its own business and organization. One thing common among all companies is the human factor; planners make the decisions.

Some planners use advanced planning software, some build their advanced planning systems on simple analysis tools like spreadsheets to evaluate trade-offs. Our mission is to help planners do their jobs more efficiently, just incorporate powerful analytics, and operations research technologies into their ongoing planning efforts; namely optimization, simulation, and statistics.

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2 - Comprehensive, flexible planning functionality

We realize every business has uncommon business requirements that need to be considered by the planning process. Learnings from decades of supply chain practice are baked into the out-of-the box functionality of each planLM solution. More importantly, planLM design offers full range of customization features to enable accurate modeling of uncommon business requirements.

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3 - Low total cost of ownership

Total cost of ownership has been preventative of wide spread use of advanced planning systems. These costs typically include up-front license and implementation, annual maintenance, frequent upgrade, in-house software/hardware and support personnel costs.

planLM is developed with the latest software technology that leverages readily available, best of breed, third party commercial and open source components. It is designed from ground up with rapid implementation ability in mind. It also offers cost effective deployment options to reduce maintenance, upgrade and in-house costs.

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4 - Rapid implementation

Typical implementation of supply chain solution involves multiple planning functions. Efficiently accessing accurate and consistent supply chain data is the most important success factor for such an implementation effort. All planLM functionality is designed from ground up to on the same instance of supply chain data that enables a single touch point to external data sources and effectively eliminates any data integration among planning applications.

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5 - Reliable, simple, yet scalable, software architecture

planLM is totally designed and developed under single platform, Microsoft .NET framework. The user interface, communication infrastructure, data server, application server, and planning applications operate in the most common platform in a distributed architecture, ensuring development simplicity and operating reliability and scalability.

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