sedApta Analytics Bricks

The sedApta Software Suite’s Analytics Bricks align your enterprise planning activities – in terms of sales, manufacturing and supply chain – with real factory resource and asset availability, thus enabling your company to optimize processes and become more responsive to unexpected changes.

Demand Management

The Demand Management module ensures the achievement of important strategical advantages by optimizing your demand analysis and demand forecasting activities.

• Statistical Sales Forecasting: aggregate input from your sales and marketing teams with historical sales data to produce an accurate demand forecast consensus.
• Sales Planning: perform manual forcing actions on sales forecast data at different aggregation levels.
• Collaborative Sales Forecasting: simulate scenarios to predict demand and achieve collaborative generation of sales forecast adapted to your company’s unique organizational structure.

Inventory Management

The Inventory Management module helps you automatically generate and optimize inventory plans based on inputs and constraints from relevant nodes across your logistical supply chain network.

• Inventory Control: simulate scenarios to create a stock replenishment plan based on your sales forecast, target service levels, current stock levels, budget and existing customer orders.
• Inventory Optimization: calculate your optimal safety stock levels taking desired customer service levels, forecast reliability, financial and logistical constraints into account.

Order Promising

Taking warehouse availability and your master production plan into account, the Order Promising module provides a single consolidated view of supply and demand to enable reliable, real-time delivery commitments.

• Customer Order Fulfillment: confirm customer delivery dates via simulations driven by service-level assignment criteria and heuristics that verify inventory and incoming plans from both the production and supply sides.
• Heuristics Management: define and formulate customer order sorting rules taking required delivery dates, status, priority, penalty existence and transportation constraints into account.
• Interactive Forcing: execute manual order fulfillment (partial, split or total) and manual override of automated order allocation outcomes.

Resource & Supply Planning

The Resource & Supply Planning module reconciles physical, logistical, financial and production constraints to validate your demand forecast against the actual capacity of resources within your supply chain network.

• Cross-Plant Capacity Planning: starting from an item-based or demand-based priority, dynamically assign orders to different plants, comparing the required capacity to cover demands and the available capacity of each site.
• Rough-Cut Capacity Planning: validate your demand forecast through strategic and/or long-term planning calculated at the aggregate level, both in terms of resources and product families.
• Detailed Capacity Planning: validate your demand forecast through the evaluation of the actual capacity and availability of the necessary physical, logistical and economic resources.
• Integrated Planning: leverage a unified data model to evaluate and predict different product mix scenarios, with access to inventory and capacity realignment capabilities within a highly-integrated synergistic process.

Web Supply Engine

The Web Supply Engine module facilitates alignment with external contractors and different suppliers by providing a unified digital environment for collaboration.

• Work Plan Collaboration: share short-term and/or medium-term plans with relevant external players, particularly contractors and suppliers.
• Supplier Debating: utilize a single virtual environment to discuss and share plan details with suppliers in order to ensure consensus on shipping dates, quantities to be delivered, price conditions, etc.
• Supplier Notification Management: continuously monitor production statuses on the supplier side and send automatic notifications regarding inspection calendars and quality control plans.

Factory Scheduling

Taking order priorities, lead times, set-up times and other plant-specific constraints into account, the Factory Scheduling module helps manage and optimize the short-term scheduling of production resources and capacities.

• Finite Capacity Scheduling: create and manage your plant's production schedule by balancing medium/long-term production objectives with short-term operative needs.
• Production Sequence Optimization: dynamically allocate orders according to pre-configured rules, optimizing production sequences, reducing plant set-up times and speeding up time-to-market.
• Material Management: manage incoming raw materials needed for your production process, synchronizing production plans, quality control and material handling.
• Multi-Scenario Simulation and Analysis: simulate and benchmark alternative production scenarios with related Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), "what if” analyses and change propagation.

Shop Floor Monitor

The Shop Floor Monitor module collects and aggregates data throughout your manufacturing process, enabling real-time visibility into production and better decision-making in response to unexpected changes or interruptions.

• Shop Floor Monitoring & Control: access a complete real-time panorama view of events, assets, processes and statuses throughout your production process and from any web-enabled device or industrial terminal.
• Performance Analytics & OEE: study your performance analytics via dashboards displaying configurable KPIs such as Manufacturing Quality, Production Productivity, Asset Availability and Overall Equipment Effectiveness.
• Event & Alarm Management: enable automated alarms to alert relevant department supervisors, such as quality, maintenance or material-handling personnel, in case of production issues, changes and/or downtimes.

Smart Asset Management

The Smart Asset Management module enables the automatic detection and correction of production asset failures, both before they occur and before they are able to generate serious product defects.

• Routine Asset Maintenance: enable autonomous execution of routine maintenance on plant assets and machines based on pre-defined rules.
• Programmed Asset Maintenance: inspect and correct incipient asset failures, either before they occur or before they turn into major defects and downtimes.
• Condition-Based Asset Maintenance: monitor asset measurements (noise, vibrations, temperature, pressure, machine cycles, etc.), automatically triggering a maintenance task when pre-defined constraints are violated.
• Corrective Asset Maintenance: create and assign maintenance tasks after a failure is detected in order to restore an asset to a functional/operative condition.
• Asset Error Analysis & Reporting: generate performance reports, study asset trends and run defect analyses, driving continuous improvement in your asset performance and management strategies.