Key Capabilities of JDA® Supply, powered by Manugistics®:
- Ability to plan across entire bill-of-material, including components and sub-assemblies
- Ability to do quick ’what-ifs’ and compare different scenarios
- “Smart Bill” substitution logic to maximize service and profitability by substituting components into the bill in place of scarce components
- Product change analysis to determine the best time for engineering changes to occur while still adhering to ship dates
- Ability to understand work-order routing for repair environments
- Web-native architecture that helps to power supply collaboration
JDA Supply enables manufacturing organizations to plan material and capacity needs in one system to create a production plan that minimizes cost and improves customer service. The solution not only creates the plan that drives manufacturing but also plans new purchases, expedites, de-expedites and cancellations on the material side. In addition, it determines constrained ship dates for customer orders on the demand side based on the material and capacity constraints that are present in the business.
JDA Supply begins with an initial manufacturing plan, and then the solution reviews new and scheduled purchase, transfer or manufacturing orders to determine new requirements. In this way, the solution gets a clear view of the customer demand picture. Once customer demand is determined, new material and manufacturing requirements are calculated. At this point, the solution performs a series of what-if simulations that balance the demand picture with available material and capacity to determine various constrained plans.
The ability to perform what-if analysis scenarios is a crucial step in the planning process, and it is this ability that differentiates JDA’s Supply solution from the traditional discrete manufacturing planning solutions.
Some of JDA Supply’s other key differentiators include the ability to review multi-level material needs, nested bills of material, and the ability to substitute components or sub-assemblies for components with scarce near-term availability. These differentiators enable you to allocate scarce components most profitably and to understand the components that are gating factors in meeting available ship dates for upcoming orders.
