After reading this lecture, you should have a good understanding of the following learning objectives: An overview of supply chain management, concepts of advanced planning systems, implementing advanced planning systems, actual aps and case studies. | With the above-described process, the company was able to substantially increase its responsiveness to changes in the market and in production. The key factors here are close integration and the coordination of partial processes, and the standardization of processes. The labor-intensive coordination and data transfers could be avoided and planning results are obtained in a short time, and new planning results implemented with little efforts. Moreover, significant influence comes from a well adapted planning process and from an extensive coverage of functional requirements. By recognizing the need for new planning event, the necessary corrections can be directly triggered without having to accept a long delay up to the following scheduled planning a completely new planning solution can be obtained within a couple of days. An isolated update of . the network and the detailed production plan can be derived within less than one working day. The efforts to create a new planning solution are significantly lower. Main benefits were achieved by improvement of the following key performance indicators.
