Industrial Manufacturing
The Industrial Manufacturing sector, characterized by High-Mix, Low-Volume (HMLV) and custom orders, faces complex planning challenges driven by long lead times and the need to balance service with high component costs. Our focus is achieving total synchronization—from supplier capacity and custom engineering to shop floor execution. We use advanced planning tools to ensure highly valued, specialized products are delivered on time and on budget.
Industrial Challenges
The Industrial Manufacturing sector operates on a foundation of customization and complexity. This environment presents four critical supply chain planning challenges that must be addressed:
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HMLV Component Volatility: Demand for highly customized, High-Mix, Low-Volume products creates severe volatility at the component level, resulting in high risk of stock-outs for specialized parts and increased inventory obsolescence.
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Long & Uncertain Lead Times: Critical, high-value components often have global, sole-source origins. The challenge is integrating volatile Supplier Capacity Constraints and long lead times to provide reliable customer delivery dates.
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Variant Configuration & Constraint-Based Planning: The core challenge in Configure-to-Order (CTO) environments is planning the exponential number of product variations without exploding the SKU base. This requires a solution that translates customer-specific Variant Configuration (VC) choices into a feasible resource plan—managing characteristic-dependent capacity constraints and ensuring component availability for a dynamic product mix in real-time.
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Complex Shop Floor Scheduling: Detailed planning must utilize finite capacity to maximize the throughput of shared, specialized bottleneck resources and minimize frequent changeovers, ensuring on-time completion of complex assembly projects.
Our Approach
We synchronize planning across IBP and PP/DS to master your complex manufacturing environment by ensuring.
Supplier Alignment:We use IBP Supply to model and integrate supplier capacity constraints, replacing static lead times with feasible commitments.
Raw Material Optimization: IBP's advanced optimizer is configured to maximize raw material availability and minimize cost exposure for critical components.
Reverse Logistics: We implement specialized planning flows to integrate reverse supply chain demand, supporting sustainability and material recovery efforts.
Characteristic-Based Planning: We deploy Characteristic-Based Planning (CBP) across IBP and PP/DS, ensuring sales commitments are validated against finite resource capacity.
Key Differentiators
We provide specialized, high-value IP and frameworks built on SAP IBP and PP/DS that accelerate your ROI
Variant Configuration (VC) Suite
Our proprietary solution seamlessly bridges complex S/4HANA VC rules with IBP planning models, eliminating manual effort and ensuring feasible custom sales orders.
Accelerated Implementation Templates
We deploy pre-built, industry-specific templates for IBP and PP/DS, reducing project timelines by 25% or more while de-risking your transformation.
Order-Based Planning (OBP) Expertise
We specialize in deploying IBP OBP tightly integrated with S/4HANA PP/DS for make-to-order supply chains, guaranteeing sales commitments are backed by real-time production feasibility.
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