Aspen Supply Chain Planner™

(formerly Aspen Supply Planner™)

Determines what to produce given product demands, available inventory, and the capabilities and constraints of the manufacturing sites and distribution network

What's New in 7.2!

Improved exception handling to help identify bottlenecks and binding constraints
Faster upload of plan data to SAP

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Aspen Supply Chain Planner develops an optimal plan for use of labor and equipment, raw materials or feedstock, inbound/outbound transportation, storage capacity, and other constraints that may affect the decision of what to make, when, and in what quantity, balancing the tradeoffs between all constraints to meet management goals. Aspen Supply Chain Planner is a core element of AspenTech’s aspenONE® Planning and Scheduling applications.

Features

Enterprise Planning and Decision Support: Builds optimal procurement, production, distribution, inventory, and sales plans. Calculates optimal inventory target levels for raw materials, intermediates, and finished goods.
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP): Supports S&OP process with production and distribution plans by product, customer, families, regions, facilities, or any other category. The solution determines the optimal use of resources and sourcing patterns, considering enterprise-wide capacities of production and distribution assets. Business objectives, such as cost minimization or profit maximization, are used to develop the plans.
Constraint Analysis: Identifies previously unrecognized constraints so they can be addressed (e.g., sources of inventory problems such as variability, high stock levels, or frequent run-outs).
Models Simple or Complex Business Situations: Effective in both made-to-stock and made-to-order manufacturing environments. Unlimited number of supply/demand points and intermediate storage facilities. Robust purchasing handling accommodates multiple suppliers and multiple pricing tiers.
Enterprise-Scale Deployment: Supports enterprise-wide connectivity and management of data and models. Inter-application integration supported by a common data model. Robust data exchange with ERP and other data systems through Aspen Supply Chain Connect.
Powerful Scenario Analysis: Boasts value-driven analysis capabilities that enable planners to develop and compare unlimited scenarios for operations across multiple plants. The differences between various “what if” scenarios are easily discerned through graphical or tabular comparison.
Reporting: Reports are available in graphical and tabular formats and easily customized using templates to meet organizational requirements. Web-based S&OP and Supply Planning reports are available for enterprise-wide access to data and analysis during the planning process.

Benefits

Maximize Business Profitability: Optimizes supply to profitably meet customer demand and business revenue goals. Enables planners to quickly re-optimize plans to respond to unplanned events in a timeframe that provides business impact.
Meet Dynamic Inventory Targets: As business changes, inventory targets can quickly be re-optimized and taken into account in the S&OP process to support management goals.
Improve Business Process: Provides a framework for cost reduction, service improvement, and reduced effort in plan development and increased plan analysis; more plans can be generated and analyzed, looking at more possible alternatives for the business.
Simplify Budget Management: Supports budget preparation without the traditional labor-intensive steps to complete and provides a budget tracking mechanism for past and future production and sales.
Enable Enhanced Collaboration: Improved decision-making capability and enterprise-wide collaboration supported by common data and visibility of data and plans.