Supply Chain Planning (SCP)

Supply chain planning (SCP) is the forward-looking process of coordinating assets to optimize the delivery of goods, services and information from supplier to customer, balancing supply and demand. An SCP suite sits on top of a transactional system to provide planning, what-if scenario analysis capabilities and real-time demand commitments, considering constraints. Typical modules include:

• Available/capable to promise
• Sales and operations planning/integrated business planning
• Collaborative planning (including forecasting and replenishment)
• Vendor-managed inventory/direct point of sale 
• Event planning (promotion, life cycle)
• Demand planning
• Inventory planning
• Production/factory planning and scheduling
• Distribution planning (unconstrained, distribution requirements planning [DRP] and deployment)
• Strategic network design
• Inventory strategy optimization (simultaneous, multitiered) 
• Supply planning (optimized, DRP and deployment)
• Production/multiplant capacity planning (master production scheduling, rough-cut capacity planning)