n.SKEP® Production Planning is a collaborative Supply Chain Planning solution for strategic and tactical production planning, addressing the demands of the markets. As a real decision aid tool, it enables to visualize, analyse, simulate and understand the requirements and capacities of any organisation in order to anticipate better and to find the best results. n.SKEP® Production Planning allows to optimize the plans in order to meet the customer needs, whilst respecting the industrial constraints.

The flexibility of n.SKEP® Production Planning completely integrates the different planning levels: detailed SOP (Sales and Operations Plan) and MPS (Master Production Schedule) at every item level. The numerous constraints taken into account (bottlenecks, labour, batch size, changeover time, component availability,

use-by dates, etc.) guarantee realistic and achievable plans. n.SKEP® Production Planning offers advanced functions for planning optimization under constraints. These propose a plan corresponding to the optimum sought by the planner: aimed at service rate, use of capacities (including alternative ranges and team organisations), stocks, costs, manufacturing campaigns, age and freshness of the stocks, according to costs and business parameters, etc.

The extensive simulation possibilities of n.SKEP® Production Planning allows precise analysis of decisions, taking into account external events. As a real collaborative Supply Chain Planning solution, n.SKEP® Production

Planning enables to share and synchronize data between users, as well as to alert the changes carried out. Being more reactive, you will be able to adapt your production to the demand and to avoid out-of-stocks or overloaded or obsolete stocks.

The analysis, optimization and reporting functions of n.SKEP® Production Planning are integrated in the business simulation environments which are completely multidimensional and graphic. These simulation and supervision functions are essential within the performance analysis of flow monitoring: service rate, objectives compared to actual sales, costs (production, storage, etc.).

• Improve the customer satisfaction:
  suppression of out-of-stocks, obsolete stocks and delivery delays, whilst respecting deadlines, etc.
   
• Increase your turnover:
  improvement of the customer service level, product availability
   
• Reduce your stocks:
  inventory of finished products, semi-finished products, components and raw material
   
• Optimize the use of your resources:
  use rate almost to saturation, optimization of changes, alternative resources,
  teams and workforce
   
• Control your Supply Chain:
  anticipate, analyse, optimize, measure the performance
   
• Compression of the ‘cash to cash’ cycle
   

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