ASCTrac^® WMS WMS Demand Planning Option Modules

Integrated Software Solutions for Warehouse Management, Distribution, and Manufacturing Operations

To provide complete future demand planning for your business supply chain, ASC has a statistical based forecasting module that is seamlessly integrated to your ASC WMS and manufacturing solution. The module uses proven exponential smoothing formulas to mathematically project your future inventory requirements for sales. Additionally, it can use the same forecasting statistical methods to project and auto-create your Purchase Orders or PO Requisitions (using our planning workbench.)

Our modules are totally integrated with the warehouse and manufacturing modules and other automated interfaces to track all inventory levels throughout your entire supply chain for real time information.

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Take Control of Your Inventory

The primary function of the ASCTrac Demand Forecasting Module is to allow you to visually predict your future supply chain inventory requirements (called "demand") for your facility or for your entire Enterprise. To create this advanced modeling tool, "ease-of-use" and "proven statistical methods" were the two main requirements that we used. Whether your business is seasonal or otherwise, you can predict your future inventory demand using your sales history. This will allow you to take control of your inventory in a pro-active mode, not work in a re-active mode.

Since ASCTrac is combining the views to all of your Purchase Orders and Customer Orders, you (or your planners) will have full ability to do statistical demand planning with all of the critical information at their fingertips in one module. If desired, you can combine with our Production Planning (MRP) Module to auto-create Work Orders, auto-create component Purchase Orders, and see lists of required components, etc. This information gives you an even better picture of your supply chain manufacturing processes based upon forecasted demand.

Automatic Purchase Orders or Purchase Requisitions:

The secondary feature of our Demand Forecasting Module is the ability to ask the system to auto-generate your Purchase Orders (PO) or Purchase Requisitions (PR). During this process, you have the flexibility to adjust the PO or PR by adjusting the quantities or the requested delivery dates to the vendor. This step creates a list of PO's in the ASC Planning Workbench process for you to plan or adjust before releasing to the purchasing system. If you have an external PO financial system that ASCTrac is interfaced to, ASCTrac will create the PR and submit all of the details to the financial system for its business rules in the PO approval process; else ASC will handle the PO as you have it configured to do.

Supply Chain Visibility:

With the ASC Demand Forecasting Module, you will have a clear (and accurate) picture of the products on actual customer orders with the time slots for delivery of those goods plotted with the actual inbound goods (purchased or manufactured.) Next, the forecasted sales-demand (purchased or manufactured), the dates at which these products will be available, the dates that components will be required for production, and the net result of the demand planning horizon. Any situations where the goods will fall below the amount required will be flagged in red to indicate an action for the planner. This will provide easy access to see what items need action to insure 100% delivery on time of goods.

Executing the Planning Workbench functions allow POs to be created, EDI to be generated is required, host ERP connectivity for financials, and many other features.

Features:

• Fully integrated to the ASCTrac system
• Calculates projected future demand to your time periods
• Uses exponential smoothing methods to calculate demand per period
• Calculates projected PO or PO requisition requirements
• Uses exponential smoothing methods to calculate PO quantities
• Creates PO or PO requisitions
• Calculates floating Safety Stock, Reorder Point, EOQ, average lead times, average historical use, and allows sales input for multiple overrides
• Can be used to feed the ASCTrac Production Planning Module (MRP) module for production
• Views and reports to allow visual alerts
• Has multiple ways to view the statistical data
• Supports Kit and Bill-of-Material items
• Can be used to manage a rental business for "expected quantity available" in the future
• Works in conjunction with the financial system
• Ability to import your history upon a startup
• EDI connectivity allows system to update inbound advice or accept client-based forecasts
• Real time visibility to every facet of inventory in one module
• Fully integrated to the other ASC modules for ERP

If you need more advanced functions than what we provide in the ASC Demand Forecasting Module as described above, then we have partnered with Rockysoft so that you can utilize their product and WMS data can pass to their product for use in their Demand Manager module. They have a very advanced demand forecasting that can calculate demand using more formula-based methods. Please contact us for more details.

See our other module pages for additional functionality and details. Information on other available modules (and the tremendous features list) can also be obtained by contacting ASC or one of our Solution Partners.

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