Symphonite Capacity and Distribution Planner (CDP)

Symphonite Capacity and Distribution Planner R230 is as intuitive as a spreadsheet tool, allowing users to model supply & distribution problems in an interactive, structured, secure and collaborative environment. It provides wide configurable capabilities to visualize planning scenarios, and helps make daily decisions on demand & supply balance and production related data. It enables users to forecast production process variables and volumes, right from feedstock receipts/ inventories and product inventories through to the cargo offtake/loading process. The production data gathered can be used to create plans and forecasts. It can also be used to evaluate and monitor production and inventory scenarios.

Key features include:

• Ability to configure models, calculations and visualizations (grids, Gantt, trends and dashboards)

• A workflow engine to support a structured and reliable approval planning process

• Automatic actuals collection that ensures forecast is based on latest plant production data

• Visual cues to highlight plan conflicts and thresholds exceeded

• Plan vs actuals functionality to highlight lessons learned and drive continuous improvement

• Multiple ‘what-If’ plans to simulate operating scenarios

• Integrates with existing solutions, and extendable with new functionality 

• Plans with daily or hourly granularity

• Secured near real-time collaborative environment for all

• Quickly do feasibility with changing production, inventory and logistic requests

• Full audit history of planning modifications.

Symphonite CDP application is continuous planning environment to balance supply, demand and logistics. The application takes inputs on production, demand and user configurable constrains to build feasible plans with daily or hourly granularity and create multiple what-if scenarios. The application is easy to use, solves production and distribution problems and is as intuitive as a spreadsheet application. 

In addition, it enables a consistent workflow for creating, updating and managing plans for various lengths of time. Symphonite CDP supports multiple views of the overall problem to enable multiple users to interact. In addition, actual data is collected for use in a tracking plan (plan vs actuals). It provides a foundation for broader supply chain solutions and is frequently integrated with third party tools to enable an overall workflow. Accountability is ensured with an audit trail of all plan changes.

Symphonite CDP solves production and distribution problems with it planning tools. It facilitates users to respond to new requests and changes in production, shipment and scheduling maintenance with a robust plan. It provides an integrated structured planning environment and communication between various parts of the organization to have an efficient planning workflow. It ensures production data integrity and consistency with a single, common repository of planning information and reporting.