Production

Right product, Right place, Right time

Reflex Supply Chain Planning software has been designed to automate as much of the replenishment plan as possible. It can be used to drive efficiencies within the company’s production and warehouse structure and, in collaboration with suppliers, to provide a highly efficient inter-enterprise replenishment process.

Reflex Supply Chain Planning provides future visibility of customer demands, your product and material requirements, and the actions needed by your suppliers to satisfy those requirements.

It automatically generates a time-phased projection in monthly, weekly or daily periods, taking into account the numerous parameters facing the stock planner: stock-on-hand, stock-in-transit, firm planned orders, scheduled receipts, lead times, minimum order quantity, order frequency, forecast accuracy, minimum / maximum stock levels. Multiple versions of the plan can be modelled and compared to assess the impact of changes on the supply chain.

Reflex Supply Planner is exception driven. It enables planners to quickly focus only on those situations where supply and demand are out of balance. As a result, planners can spend their time making informed decisions about resource allocation, expediting orders and customer service, instead of tending to routine replenishment orders that Supply Planner can handle automatically.

Reflex Supply Planner anticipates and averts problems such as stockouts and out-dated inventory. Minimizing obsolescence, the solution presents planners with economically sound options - and pleased customers.

Reflex Production Planner provides for long term Capacity planning by Production line or Work Centre taking into account specific factory calendars to account for holiday, shutdowns, and factory maintenance.

The output for Capacity planning process include labour plan and are an essential feed into the supply plan and MPS requirements. The process analyses the gaps between available capacity and demand and where possible smoothes the demand by pulling forward or pushing back to create a smoothed production plan.

In addition consideration is taken of stock builds requirements to meet planned seasonal peaks and the Safety Stocks to support them.

All planning methods are supported such as MTO, PTO, MTS, PTS as required each part number. Calculations for cascading a plan through multiple levels from a central Group, through a Warehouse and down to a store level is supported.

Reflex Scheduler module creates of an optimised plan which takes account of customer service objectives (eg key customers, priority products, minimise stock outs etc).

Works orders can be dragged and dropped to re schedule and synchronise sub and final assemblies. The schedule will consider both current and future material availability together with WIP stock levels.

Users can fully adjust and over write the proposed system schedule to achieve their desired plan. The scheduler will take into consideration the resource constraints of each work station.