Timing is Everything

Managing capital is crucial for every business. Without sacrificing performance, delaying any capital spending is primary motivation of any CFO. Especially, in high growth and seasonal industries, continously maintaining the right capacity at every stage of the supply chain will eliminate bottlenecks, increase sales, and improve ROI on production and distribution assets.

planLM Capacity Planning solution provides an optimization framework to plan capacitated resource increases and reductions based on demand growth projections. Typical supply chain resources in question are; storage space, machines, assembly lines, expensive tools, employee shifts. It considers one time capital costs, fixed and variable operating costs, and determines the optimal timing of such capital intensive activities.

Key Benefits

• Improve ROI on capital intensive supply chain assets
• Provide educated guidance on the timing and magnitude of capital intensive supply chain decision such as fleet size, machines, and labor shifts

Key Features

planLM Capacity Planning solution is specifically designed for rapid execution of our planning systems implementation methodology. Key features are as follows:

• Comprehensive cost and capacity modeling; inherently models all activities in the supply chain, eliminates special configuration efforts for most business issues.
• Time-phased approach; determines optimal time-phased capacity plan by utilizing a multiple time period optimization model, which considers one time, fixed, variable, activation, and inactivation costs
• Validation of operational feasibility; features full featured supply chain simulation to validate the operational feasibility of scenarios by providing detailed information on expected behavior of key performance indicators before physically implementing them.
• Unprecedented scalability; runs cutting edge optimization technologies on 64bit architecture without any limits on the size of the supply chain.
• "What if" capability; support inherent multiple scenarios for optimizing capacity plans, and facilitates visual comparisons of multiple plans
• OnDemand deployment option; enables you to start your inventory capacity planning system implementation right away, without acquiring any software license or hardware. Contact us for a quick start guide.