Supply Chain Planning and Scheduling Software
Your complex supply chain calls for a collaborative and digital solution. QAD DSCP enables your business to make informed decisions to ensure product availability while minimizing excess inventory.
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How Can QAD Digital Supply Chain Planning (QAD DSCP) Help Your Business?
Lower Costs
Ensure customer orders are filled and avoid excess inventory that will go unsold.
Boost the Customer Experience
Increase customer satisfaction with orders ready as promised and on-time deliveries.
Increase Forecast Accuracy
Gain a comprehensive view of demand to create more precise forecasts across various time horizons.
Enhance Production Efficiency
Ensure the flow of production by having all materials, machinery and labor when and where they're needed.
QAD DSCP Core Solutions
Optimize and streamline your entire supply chain with modern, digital solutions.
Demand Planning
Demand Planning helps your company rapidly and accurately gain a clearer understanding of future demand.
Distribution Planning
Distribution Planning calculates, analyzes and simulates your distribution requirements to generate an effective finite capacity distribution plan.
Production Planning
Production Planning analyzes and understands your production requirements to create a plan that accounts for any constraints.
Procurement Planning
Procurement Planning provides comprehensive supply planning to calculate optimal distribution, manufacturing and procurement plans.
Financial Planning
Financial Planning aligns plans and measures progress of revenue, profit and supply chain costs against budgets.
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP/IBP)
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP/IBP) facilitates communication and decision-making across your organization to balance supply and demand.
Advanced Scheduling
Advanced Scheduling optimizes production decisions by determining the best possible sequence by item, line, day and time.
Customer Success Stories
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Instinct reduces inventory costs and improves forecasting
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Solvay optimizes forecasting, production and distribution planning
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Hutchinson now proactively plans, reducing disruptions and improving production
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is supply chain planning?
Supply chain planning is all about getting the right products to the right place at the right time, while keeping costs down and operations smooth. It's a strategic activity across your organization that coordinates everything from sourcing materials to manufacturing, distributing and delivering goods - all while boosting efficiency and staying in line with financial objectives.
What are some challenges associated with supply chain planning?
Supply chain planning faces several critical challenges that can hinder efficiency and profitability. Excess or obsolete inventory arises when businesses fail to create accurate forecasts based on historical sales and seasonal trends, leading to unsold stock. This ties directly into the issue of lost sales, as inaccurate demand planning results in product unavailability when customers are ready to buy.
Furthermore, organizations struggle with manual supply chain processes. Relying on manual methods for generating purchase, transfer and work orders leads to inefficiencies and delays in ensuring product availability. Another example is production bottlenecks which can disrupt the entire supply chain; without precise supply plans that account for lead times and pre-assemblies, materials may not arrive when needed for production, causing costly delays.
What role does artificial intelligence (AI) play in supply chain planning?
Modern technologies like AI make it possible for your supply chain to enhance efficiency, agility and resilience. Imagine optimizing your supply chain through intuitive conversations with advanced AI. Get simple answers to complex questions as humans and machines collaborate seamlessly for a more efficient, resilient, and sustainable future. This is where AI makes sense.
In the case of QAD DSCP, AI changes the dynamics of our client’s supply chain planning activities by better forecasting demand, optimizing inventory levels and cleansing data to ensure information reliability with your enterprise systems. Learn more here.