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products overview
Supply Chain Visibility
Sales & Operations Planning
Optimizing Production
Inventory Optimization
Distribution Replenishment Planning (DRP) / Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
Demand Forecast Accuracy and Customer Service
Analytics and Performance Management
Advanced Data Management
Topology and Integration


The WAM Systems
Supply Chain Planning Solution

The WAM Systems Supply Chain Planning Solution is a comprehensive suite of decision support and optimization applications that helps optimize every aspect of your supply chain--from demand management and distribution planning through production scheduling and sourcing.

Our fully-integrated suite of planning and optimization modules gives you all the tools you need to develop fast and accurate plans that help you minimize costs and maximize productivity. The solution has been designed to meet the specific requirements of the process industry by supporting a broad set of supply chain business functions including:

  • Demand planning and forecasting
  • Sales and Operations Planning
  • Supply chain optimization
  • Inventory targeting and optimization
  • Distribution planning
  • Production planning, scheduling & optimal policy setting
  • Raw materials planning
  • Available-to-promise order fulfillment analysis
Global Visibility, Alerting and Scenario Planning
The Supply Chain Event Monitor serves as the core of our planning system. The highly graphical interfaces of the Grid console provide an all-in-one look at inventory projections, order status, planned production and material movements across all of the products in a business. This display provides an up-to-the-minute simulation of your supply chain which alerts you to problems or opportunities that could significantly affect your profitability or competitiveness.
Distribution Replenishment Planning (DRP)
Integrated with the Supply Chain Event Monitor, our DRP module uses product formulations and replenishment algorithms to compute and recommend just-in-time replenishment orders for raw materials. These replenishments consider the lead-time and typical lot size from each supplier. Raw material inventories and replenishment orders are automatically linked to the supply chain simulator such that a change in a production schedule that turns raw material plans infeasible will trigger algorithms to re-plan optimal replenishment.
Real-Time Available-to-Promise (ATP)
The Customer Service Workstation provides Available-To-Promise (ATP) functionality and order status updates to support day-to-day activities of the customer service personnel. The Available-To-Promise analysis synthesizes inventory, production schedules, orders and forecasts to compute availability for any moment in the future, and also recommends alternate sourcing options if preferred sources are at capacity.
Collaborative and Statistical Forecasting
Our Demand Planning and Forecasting Module creates statistical forecasts and supports the collaborative forecasting process.
  • Generate statistical forecasts using a flexible, multi-tier tournament of statistical forecasting models
  • Collect sales forecasts from field sales personnel
  • Allow sales and customer service representatives, marketing planners and business managers to view, analyze, and override statistical forecasts based on marketing intelligence and unique knowledge of customer requirements
  • Create personalized analytics to evaluate forecasting effectiveness
Production Scheduling
Our Production Scheduling module provides users with powerful simulation capability, wherein key operating parameters such as product transitions, equipment rates, and yield values can be modified to help create the best candidate schedule. In addition, changes made to the schedule are automatically incorporated into the Supply Chain Event Monitor, allowing schedulers to immediately determine the feasibility and effectiveness of their changes.
Inventory Optimization
Inventory Targeting provides a means for calculating safety stock recommendations based on targeted customer service levels. It also compares optimum inventory levels to anticipated inventory levels based on current supply chain management policies.
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
Our Advanced Planning module provides the capability to support Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) activities and analyses. The tool can be used to determine optimal production and sourcing policies that reduce costs and maximize profitability. In addition, it provides a means of rapidly determining not only what portion of the forecast is feasible to produce, but what product mix is most profitable to produce. In situations where capacity exceeds demand, the tool identifies opportunities to increase profits by recommending expanded production and sales of key products.