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Ross Supply Chain Planning
Ross Enterprise's Supply Chain Planning (Ross SCP) solutions enable process manufacturers to plan and forecast proactively, optimize production schedules for low-cost and high-quality customer service, minimize inventory investments, and streamline distribution operations.
Demand Planning (DP):
Plan more proactively, frequently, and accurately across the entire supply chain; integrates a "best-fit" forecast based on historical demand, with user-anticipated differences. Especially suited to the needs of companies whose demand patterns are shifting, the system continually improves each forecast, learning from the most recent period of demand, measuring forecast error, and highlighting exceptions.
Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS):
Helps manufacturers quickly generate feasible production plans and master production schedules that optimize capacity, materials and labor to satisfy demand, maximize customer service levels and minimize costs. Using your production rules including resource preferences and product grouping and sequencing strategies in a highly graphical environment together with dynamic alerts, APS helps production planners gain the visibility and high-quality decision support necessary to consistently achieve rapid and optimal performance.
Inventory and Replenishment Planning (IRP):
Synchronize all of the elements affecting inventory so you can ensure timely delivery to your customers. Using business rules, inventory policies, and developed forecasts, the system considers consumption rates and inventory levels across your supply chain and applies your replenishment rules.
Sales and Operations Planning (SOP):
See at any time how the organization is performing against plan, quickly establish where future demand or supply issues may arise, and evaluate the outcome of different demand-supply balancing options on the business.
Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI):
The Ross Enterprise Supply Chain Planning solution, Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), recommends what to make or procure, how much to make, and when to make it in order for a supplier to maintain target inventory levels and meet customer demand, especially for partners involved in Scan Based Trading (SBT). VMI combines business rules, inventory replenishment policies and real-time inventory data with forecasting and demand planning, which allows suppliers to produce accurate and effective replenishment orders on behalf of their customers.
To access a wide range of downloadable content on the Ross SCP applications, please visit the System Overview Data Sheets section of our Life Sciences Resource Library. And please remember that regardless of your specialty as a Life Sciences manufacturer, we would like nothing better than for you to talk to a current client whose business falls in your area of expertise or have you contact us directly with any questions.