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Optimize your Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)

A lot of tasks have to be planned regularly in a supply chain. On the one hand, these are frequently daily, operative planning tasks such as operative procurement and disposition, production planning, and the scheduling of new customer orders.

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Sales and Operations planning (S&OP) is done less frequently – in some cases on a rolling basis per month – but for a much longer horizon. The best possible forecasts of future sales are made using demand planning. In a second step of S&OP, the feasibility of these sales is checked and the entire supply chain is oriented toward them.

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A central task of supply chain management is also to coordinate complex, long-running projects as well as possible across several departments with project planning and project management. Comprehensive planning thus includes all relevant value-creating processes, from development to sales. An essential success factor for efficient supply chain management is the continuous monitoring of supply chain performance with a suitable KPI system and KPI (Key Performance Indicator) tool.

The handling of the planning tasks should be reflected in order to keep planners up-to-date at all times and enable optimal production control. For this, reports are provided from the shop floor via suitable production control systems or manufacturing execution systems (MES) or information is read in from plant data collection. The efficient and fast communication of planning system and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is an essential guarantee of the great transparency and up-to-dateness of planning and master data.

waySuite supports the planning situations described thanks to integrative software modules with a high-performance interface between ERP system and the waySuite planning tool.

You can learn more here about how waySuite is structured, what the individual modules and components include, how they work together, and what the benefits of this software are for your integrated company planning.

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waySuite - the software suite for Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

Sales, project, production, and procurement planning optimally attuned to one another

waySuite offers companies the opportunity to handle the entire sales & operations planning (S&OP) process in real time. Thanks to waySuite’s real-time capability, users can coordinate sales plans, production capacities, and raw material with one another very efficiently across all planning horizons. From automatic sales plan forecasts to fine production planning on through to real-time availability checks in Realtime, the waySuite enables complete integration of all planning levels in one tool.

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The people in charge of production and supply chain management (SCM) focus on upcoming operative planning tasks every day. These include operative procurement and disposition, production planning, and the scheduling of new customer orders. Here, many decisions have to be made each day, so it’s important to keep an eye on the short-term planning horizon as well.

Within sales & operations planning (S&OP), the people in charge plan once a month or sometimes for a longer period of time. On the one hand, this affects demand planning, with which the best possible forecasts of future sales are identified. In a second step, APS realtime tool wayRTS checks the feasibility of these sales figures and orients the entire supply chain according to them. Based on this information, strategic decisions can be made for long-term production planning and control:

Another central task of supply chain management is project planning, including project management of complex and long-running projects in order to coordinate all involved departments as well as possible. Comprehensive planning thus includes all relevant value-creating processes, from development to sales. An essential success factor for efficient S&OP or advanced planning & scheduling system (APS) such as valantic’s waySuite is the continuous monitoring of supply chain performance through a suitable KPI system and key performance indicator (KPI) tool.

The planning results should be reflected in real time in order to provide the people in charge with the best possible information at all times and guarantee optimal production control.

The efficient and fast communication of planning system and ERP/SAP systems is an essential guarantee of the great transparency and up-to-dateness of planning and master data. waySuite supports the planning situations described thanks to integrative software modules with a standardized interface between the ERP/SAP system and waySuite. This is how waySuite helps users with all planning tasks along the company’s supply chain.

Benefits for your processes

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    Increased adherence to schedules

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    Reduced effort for planning & control

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    Increased productivity

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    Shorter throughput times

  5. 5

    Optimized inventories

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APS waySuite at MAN ES: Production planning AI-optimized
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KNAPP AG optimizes supply chain with aps system wayRTS

KNAPP AG optimizes supply chain with aps system wayRTS
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Grenzebach plans and controls supply chain processes with valantic’s waySuite
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How Ottobock Increased On-Time Delivery
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Production Planning and Project Planning at Waldner
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valantic Optimizes Supply Chain Management at Seepex

valantic Optimizes Supply Chain Management at Seepex
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Jürgen Münch
Head of Scheduling, KNAPP AG

”We worked with valantic to introduce a planning process that covers the entire value chain from project management to delivery to the construction site. Our cross-divisional approach to optimization is supported by the great degree of transparency that we achieve with wayRTS.“

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Moritz Ückert
Vice President Supply Chain at Grenzebach

”We are very pleased that we selected valantic as an experienced project partner. We have achieved all the goals that we set for this project together with valantic.“

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COO at BBC Cellpack Technology and Project Manager

”Transparency and a database across the boundaries of the individual plants are the basis for efficient planning, with which parts are ultimately produced when they are needed. We have achieved our project goals completely in time and on budget – this has confirmed that valantic is the right partner and waySuite is the right software for this.“

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Dr.-Ing. Christian Küber
Head of Technical Applications at WALDNER Holding SE & Co. KG.

”Plant engineering is a project business, and we have taken the opportunity presented by a software changeover to better reflect the complexity of project planning and the processes that build on it. About a year after the go-live of our new environment, which consists of S/4HANA, wayRTS, and wayPRO, I can say: The project is a great success. We have gained the highest degree of transparency in planning and stability in our processes. What we have created together with our SAP consultants and valantic will serve as a blueprint for the processes at the other companies in the Waldner Group.“

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Aicke Böhm
Head of Order Management Pump at SEEPEX GmbH

”We are not only extremely precise and reliable when we make promises about delivery dates. wayRTS is now our “appointment master” and we have achieved undreamt-of internal transparency and peace of mind in planning. If there actually are any bottlenecks, we can use the good visualization of the planning status and the simulations to find solutions very efficiently.“

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Bastian Steffens
Supply Chain Process Specialist and Projekt Manager, Ottobock

”It was helpful to consult planners from the other plants back then and develop a standardized daily routine and a uniform approach in wayRTS, After the centralized demand planning, specific production planning was done in the individual plants. We all work with the same lists and views, This gives us a high degree of transparency and defines the processes across plants.“

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Michael Budimir
Head of Bid & Order Planning, MAN Energy Solutions Schweiz AG

”We have a large number of people, departments, and external partners involved in one product over a long period of time. Planning is complex, and deviations such as as non-conformities, late deliveries or overstock or understock must be detected early and resolved quickly. The automatic optimization function significantly reduces the work we have to do.“

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Edmund Klaffenboeck
Manager Process Planning at TGW Mechanics

”After an exciting two weeks during the go-live, we were able to supply production with work inventories again, which was the main goal. Looking back, I can see that the challenge of the project was that we had to deviate from SAP and way standards to maintain our established processes. Nevertheless, we succeeded in our efforts to maintain the transparency that is critical to planning.“

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Edgar Heckelsmüller
Head of the order center at motan operations GmbH

”We can see the success. Transparent, company-wide planning has calmed processes and we have become much faster. The wayRTS planning software enables us to run through different scenarios and make well-founded decisions for prioritizing orders. valantic has also provided us with valuable guidance on how to improve data quality in our existing systems.“

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Planning and control of production with wayRTS

Transparency in the supply chain

The advanced planning & scheduling (APS) software wayRTS (Real Time Simulation) is high-performance software for production planning and control in real time of all a company’s value-creation levels. wayRTS makes planning transparent and gives users the opportunity to undertake easy interventions with planning support that can be automated at will.

Thanks to the flexible, main memory-based data structure, wayRTS enables the modeling of production processes and seamless integration and synchronization of other value-creating processes, for example in the pre-production phase (design, planning, work preparation, etc.). And all this in real time.

Automation of regular planning tasks

Here's how supply chain planning processes can be automated easily

There is always optimization potential in production planning, and in conjunction with this also in demand or procurement planning and in S&OP. waySuite enables you to recognize and exploit this potential. You can use waySuite to reduce throughput times, inventories, and set-up times, and also to reduce the effort required for planning. AI handles the routine tasks.
You should not have to deal with processing missing parts or backorders: waySuite automatically resolves conflicts with its intelligent algorithms. By automating regular planning tasks, you can focus on clarifying specific planning situations.

Benefits for your processes

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    Reduced planning costs

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    Shorter throughput times

  3. 3

    Inventory optimization

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    Unburdening from routine activities

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    No more troubleshooting

Cross-project planning transparency with wayPRO

The next dimension in project planning

Individual customer requests should also be fulfilled in complex projects; that’s the goal and nevertheless always a challenge. To achieve this, the various basic conditions, including delivery dates, resource planning, and operative project management have to be perfectly attuned to one another. With valantic’s wayPRO software module, you get easy, quick mapping of this multi-project planning.

All projects are saved centrally in wayPRO, processed in real time, and thus available to all planners at any time. If different projects access the same resources, wayPRO reveals dependencies and identifies scheduling and capacity conflicts. Project managers can therefore concentrate on their essential work, plan projects realistically, prioritize decisions, and reveal alternatives for action.

Efficient workforce management with wayWFM

Here's how to optimize your personnel and shift planning

In project management and especially in production planning, the right allocation of resources and capacities can cause projects to succeed or fail. Employees are another important, special resource. Employees cannot simply be planned in at will. Different qualifications, work time models, overtime accounts, labor law requirements, vacation planning, trainings, sick days, and much more make the allocation of personnel capacities complex. At the same time, agile, order-oriented production requires flexible deployment of personnel.

valantic’s modern workforce management solution way WFM helps users plan personnel deployment efficiently and clearly. Incorporated into waySuite, wayWFM offers extensive workforce management functionalities for automatic, optimized assignment of personnel resources taking into account demand, qualifications, and capacities.

Overview of all important supply chain KPIs with wayKPI

Here’s how to create, visualize, and report KPIs

With the business intelligence tool wayKPI, companies get an overall view of the performance of their whole supply chain with company-specific KPIs. wayKPI offers all tools required for creating, visualizing, analyzing, and reporting KPIs. With KPI cockpits, users can get an overview of their KPIs and their development at any time on any end user device. They can use KPI dashboards to analyze their KPIs and data down to the individual document and from every point of view. Reports can be configured according to their wishes and specifications. wayKPI’s report generator handles the regular updating and distribution of the reports.

The direct connection to wayRTS with pre-configured KPIs quickly ensures sufficient transparency with regard to the degree of implementation of the planning results in the relevant departments.

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That's why standardization and automation increase the efficiency of production and the supply chain

With wayCOM, companies not only digitalize their workflows, they also increase efficiency by standardizing and automating the accompanying communication. With wayCOM, users specify which information should flow where and which documentation is created for this. Users define very flexibly which business events trigger which automatic measures. This way, errors and omissions in the operational information flow can be prevented and the transparency of processes increases – automatically, without any additional effort.

Successful Forecasts and Automated Dispo Data Maintenance with wayDDO

Precise, high-performance planning reliability in disposition and procurement

wayDDO (Demand & Dispo Optimization) is the forecasting and dispo data tool of the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) software waySuite from valantic. wayDDO enables the forecasting of future demands and automation of the dispo data management through a high performing mathematical algorithm. The software includes a variety of predefined parameters and can be adapted to individual customer requirements. By using wayDDO, costs in procurement and production can be reduced, procurement and disposition planning can be optimized and a higher degree of automation can be achieved.

wayDDO uses state-of-the-art procedures to meet the different requirements of the companies. For short-term forecasts, forecasts of spontaneous demand or the identification of longer-term trends, different algorithms are optimally suited in each case. The selection of the optimal procedure is automated. Alternatively, the selection can also be done in an uncomplicated way by the decision maker and dispatcher.

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Delivery dates, resource planning, and other different basic conditions have to be attuned to one another with operative project management. With valantic’s wayPRO (project management) module, SCM departments get easy, quick mapping of this multi-project planning.

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The next dimension in project planning: Efficient project planning is crucial for meeting specific customer requirements even in complex endeavors – a challenging yet rewarding task.

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Workforce management with wayWFM

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