Planning is a key element of any complex business. Planning figures in a variety of ways. Some of them are –

Capacity Planning

• Answer questions related to how your critical resources are utilized;
• Answer critical ‘what if’ questions about a long term future state.

Resource Planning

• Allows you to address resource deficiency issues;
• Allows you to make site closure decisions;
• Allows you to as ‘what if’ scenarios related to make-vs.-buy.

Fulfillment Planning
In a business involved in fulfilling demand across 100s of SKUs, demand fulfillment planning is crucial. Fulfillment also is a critical element of the company’s Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process. Traditional S&OP practices (as popularized by APICS) rely a lot on spreadsheet-based calculations. Even businesses with a modest number of plants, SKUs, and customer locations are finding that the spreadsheet-based simplistic approach breaks down fast and it often gives sub-optimal and even infeasible results.

Modern S&OP / Fulfillment Planning, delivered by Optimal Solutions, come with a full-featured optimization-based planning module. This dramatically improves the quality of your plan and ensures that it is optimal and feasible and most importantly - repeatable.

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