Planning for complex outsourced products provides major challenges for manufacturers and OEMs.

By providing a clear overview of product structures, intelligent analysis of lead-times and unique bill of materials restructuring capability, Visible Chain Technology is helping planners, forecasters and managers to win the battle against planning complexity and excessive supply chain risk.

Traditional planning systems lose their effectiveness in outsourced environments, exposing planners and forecasters to significant financial risk in the supply chain. In the context of supply chain, APICS define supply chain risk as uncertainty in supply, transformation, delivery, and customer demand.

By providing a clear overview of product structures, an intelligent analysis of lead-times and unique bill of materials restructuring capability, Visible Chain Technology is helping planners, forecasters and managers to win the battle against planning complexity and excessive supply chain risk.

Our advanced planning solution helps to remove these challenges resulting in a simplified planning process, reduced planning time and reduced financial risks associated with supplier commitments

Key Capabilities:
Our product complements existing MRP/ERP systems by providing materials planners and forecasters with the ability to automatically perform the following;

-Intelligent analysis of bills of materials, identifying all critical lead-time components throughout the supply chain and the individual impact on overall lead-time (in a matter of seconds).

-Unique restructuring of bill of materials, creating a structure optimised for minimum lead-time and risk.

-Unique Planning enabling existing MRP systems to plan & purchase both individual long-lead-time components and higher value (parent)assemblies independently at any level in the supply chain.

Our products simplify the forecasting and planning process for both production and spare parts planning.

Value to Customers.

Reduced supply chain risks.

• Hi-Value orders are open for much shorter periods
• Initial forecasting & ordering of individual long lead-time components, not high value assemblies
• Critical components identified and prioritised

Improving responsiveness.

• Complete visibility on problem long lead-time components
• Numerous options to plan& hold low value components at various stages in the supply-chain
• Manual planning time reduced (from days to hours)

Improving profitability.

• Lower “supply-chain” working capital requirements
• Engineering change/obsolete material costs reduced
• Less planning resources required

Design products for supply-chain.

• Enables products to be automatically designed for supply chain optimisation, at any stage in the product

Please contact us directly and we can arrange for a demonstration and/or provide an account for an online operational version for trial purposes.