Are you encountering demand and supply mismatches, inventory overstocks and order-fulfillment delays?
IBM® Planning Analytics is an integrated supply chain analytics software that incorporates both internal and external datasets, such as resource shortages, capacity requirements, weather forecasts, providers and customer satisfaction surveys. Blend advanced analytics and what-if scenario analysis into your production planning, giving you the foresight to pivot quickly, turning disruptions into opportunities.
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Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) in action
Revolutionizing the consumer goods industry with integrated business planning
Drive growth with a 360-degree view of the management process, end-to-end visibility into inventory and demand-adjust imbalances faster as they occur. Create and modify plans in real-time with a deeper understanding of supply chain operations. Automate and streamline strategic planning across the entire organization to achieve synchronized and resilient supply chain management.
Share information across all levels of your organization quickly and allow high participation of planners to improve inventory, capital, expense, revenue and demand management. Strengthen supply chain collaboration and increase transparency in your distribution infrastructure and respond to disruptions and customer needs.
Identify and analyze trends and seasonality patterns in historical values and external data with AI forecasting functionality, augmenting human intelligence with statistical and predictive analytics. Use real-time internal and external data to gain a deeper understanding of what drives demand, resulting in more accurate forecasts and inventory level optimization.
Foster effective supply chain collaboration across procurement, production, warehousing and S&OP. Easily integrate other enterprise resource planning (ERPs)/GLs data sources and quickly balance supply and demand, optimize logistics and inventory management.
Create continuous supply chain plans and forecasts—monthly, daily or hourly—and gain real-time visibility into disparate data sources. Drive operational efficiency and actionable insights to easily adapt and meet dynamic customer demand.
Augment human skills with AI-infused capabilities to quickly identify meaningful patterns from data, uncover hidden trends and build what-if scenarios without the need for a data scientist. Deliver faster and more accurate sales and operations plans and forecasts.
Instead of taking weeks, Novolex can now process data within a few hours, taking two days for analysis, discussion and review, and providing clarity on the available capacity to proceed with new products and to support the current market.
Frequently asked questions
Flat files, such as spreadsheets, word docs, budgeting and forecasting applications, as well as ERP, CRM and any API can be integrated by IBM Planning Analytics with Watson.
Depending on your company's demands and requirements, the installation procedure can take between 8 weeks to several months.
The engine, a multidimensional database with a cell-oriented layout similar to spreadsheets, is at the heart of IBM Planning Analytics. Its cells are linked to the underlying database via your formulas. All of Excel's data visualization and analysis capabilities are available in a centralized platform.