Demand Works Software for Forecasting, Demand Management and Supply Planning

Smoothie® SP extends Smoothie to provide high-powered multi-tiered supply planning. It provides immediate analysis of safety stock inventories and replenishment policies, current inventories and orders. To support economic simulations, Smoothie SP helps you to classify items by forecastability, cost, volume, criticality or other dimensions. With Smoothie SP, you can "what-if" alternative service levels and lead times for groups of products, vendors or classifications and see the effect on safety stocks. The effects of policy changes can easily be evaluated based on projected inventory investment or space utilization.

Once the supply policies are optimized, Smoothie SP will identify the items needing attention, help you experiment with changing forecasts, supply policies and order quantities, then produce full time-phased production and/or procurement plans. Plans can be based on information within your company's internal supply network, or Smoothie can be used for vendor managed inventory (VMI) programs.

Smoothie SP highlights key supply exceptions like inventories outside of min-max tolerances, items that need to be ordered now, past-due receipts, late shipments and others. You can also drill down to see order-level detail for open purchase orders, in-transit inventories, and demand orders. You can also see detailed information about inventories like hold quantities, second quality stock and other lot-level classifications.

Smoothie SP's advanced multilevel MRP, DRP, and kitting capabilities support distribution and production planning for complex supply chains. It easily and intuitively supports distribution channels with multiple tiers and manufacturing planning scenarios where demand for one product creates demand for others. Items and locations are linked with precise time offsets and quantity factors, so it will accurately account for long lead times between points in your supply chain and bill-of-material or formulation-type manufacturing relationships.

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