Sales & Operations Planning

Integrated Planning & Optimization

MJC²'s client, a major UK manufacturer, required an enterprise supply chain management software solution to support integrated sales and operations planning, to ensure alignment, synchronization and efficiency across the organisation.

The client's operation has challenging planning requirements (e.g. short product life cycles, high demand volatility, complex supply chain), and effective supply chain management can only be achieved by integrating with production and distribution scheduling solutions to optimize across the business.

Core Processes

Sales Planning

Starting from annual forecasts and budgets, the MJC² solution automatically refines demand forecasts based on latest activity and customer profiling.

Collaborative planning tools allow the impact of planned marketing campaigns, release of new products, confirmed major orders from customers and macro economic factors to be integrated.

Production Planning

Demand forecasts, current inventory positions and agreed inventory policies are used to optimize production plans for factories and manufacturing facilities.

Detailed machine/asset utilisation plans and corresponding employee schedules are created to provide both a view of capacity vs demand and rough cut production plans for each site.

Inventory Optimization

Using the inventory projections from the production planning process, and integrating with logistics and distribution scheduling algorithms, the resilience of the inventory policy to demand and operational variances can be determined.

Inventory levels and corresponding replenishment strategies can be refined based on simulations of what-if scenarios, and estimated lead times determined.

Logistics Planning

Logistics capacity plans and corresponding agency or 3PL schedules can be generated, covering warehousing, multi-modal logistics and haulage/last-mile distribution.