Production Planning & Scheduling
Full concurrency in planning and scheduling
Avatar cPP&DS is a cloud-native solution that enables KPI-driven production planning and scheduling. It supports real-time vertical and horizontal scenario planning and order sequencing, leveraging machine learning, and modern optimizers.
Production Planning & Scheduling in the Cloud
SAP Integrated &
Certified
Avatar cPP&S seamlessly connects advanced scheduling capabilities to all SAP Digital Supply Chain solutions. Companies benefit from mapping their end-to-end planning requirements with SAP IBP and S/4HANA. As part of the SAP partner ecosystem, Avatar cPP&DS is available at the SAP Store.
ML & AI
Embedded
Machine learning is interwoven with supply chain planning algorithms and optimizers. Thus, ML is seamlessly integrated into planning runs and operational planning.
KPI-Driven
Planning
Integrated operational reporting powered by preconfigured and freely adaptable KPIs provides holistic end-to-end supply chain transparency.
Scenario
Trees
An infinite number of predefined and ad-hoc scenarios in a visualized scenario tree are used to simulate end to end, collaborate, and define the best KPI-driven decisions for your supply chain.
Performance
by Design
The underlying in-memory hybrid graph data model enables the highest planning performance by design.
Extensibility
by Design
The data model, algorithms, and also optimizer models are designed to allow high-performance extensibility by using an innovative code-to-data approach.
Next-Generation Production Planning & Scheduling
The automated decision support is enabled via a new integrated cognitive planning engine. Decision makers get insights into the impacts of detailed scheduling on the supply chain in real time.
Insight-Driven
Planning
Insight-driven supply chain planning is powered by embedded intelligent analytics, live KPIs, dynamic dashboards, and active, smart, and real-time alerting.
User-centric and process-specific visualization and alerting empower an easy and detailed planning analysis with all impacts upstream and downstream of the supply chain. Always know the effects of your scheduling activities for logistics and demand fulfillment.
Easily understand planning constraints and get guidance on solving planning exceptions by machine learning actions that are recommended and self-explaining.
Intelligent Enabler for Supply Chain Planning
Simulation &
Scenario Capabilities
Full visibility and transparency thanks to KPI-driven simulation and scenario capabilities from demand via risk quantification, supply, production planning and scheduling up to execution and logistics. And all this is in full alignment with the existing System of Record, for example, SAP S/4HANA.
Cognitive Production
Planning & Scheduling
AI-based scheduling supports the consideration of risk mitigations or inventory policies with full integration also into any manual scheduling activities.
Seamlessly
Integrated Optimizer
Avatar offers seamless integration of different optimizers, e.g., Gurobi or even quantum optimizers to build any relevant optimization models during planning and scheduling.
Automated Cognitive Problem Solving
Built on more than 25 years of experience in supply chain solutions, Avatar keeps planners’ activities in focus and supports with intuitive and guided user interfaces supported by cognitive proposals in a simplified and non-complex environment.
Smart Defaults
Applications with relevant default settings increase the efficiency of planners. Avatar default settings are fully adaptable or can be proposed by the solution based on recent planning activities.
Cognitive Planning Support
Next to solution defaults, applications support planners with cognitive planning proposals and corrections. These proposals are not limited to supply chain segments but consider all relevant supply chain information.
Smoothly Running
Scheduling Solution
A clear, user-friendly, and adaptable layout enables planners to easily assess and plan their relevant scenarios. Visual comparison functionalities, real-time calculated key performance indicators, and data-sharing features allow an informed decision throughout the complete supply chain.
Intuitive
User Experience
A simple and adaptable UX design helps to display the right information at the right time to make solid decisions with input from the complete supply chain. Users define their working screens on top of a company-wide standard and combine both stationery as well as mobile devices.
Planning
Orchestration
Applications and algorithms can be combined and orchestrated in a controlled and simple manner to automize also complex supply chain requirements and scenarios.
Simplified
Solution Approach
Guided workflows with relevant decision proposals reduce the complexity of planning activities and offer non-complex user guidance through intuitive user interfaces.
Power of the Unified Core
Built on more than 25 years of experience in supply chain solutions, Avatar keeps planners’ activities in focus and supports with intuitive and guided user interfaces supported by cognitive proposals in a simplified and non-complex environment.
Smart Defaults
Applications with relevant default settings increase the efficiency of planners. Avatar default settings are fully adaptable or can be proposed by the solution based on recent planning activities.
Cognitive Planning Support
Next to the solution defaults, the applications support planners with cognitive planning proposals and corrections. These proposals are not limited to supply chain segments but consider all relevant supply chain information.
Smoothly Running
Scheduling Solution
A clear, user-friendly, and adaptable layout enables planners to easily assess and plan their relevant scenarios. Visual comparison functionalities, real-time calculated key performance indicators, and data-sharing features allow an informed decision throughout the complete supply chain.
Intuitive
User Experience
A simple and adaptable UX design helps to display the right information at the right time to make solid decisions with input from the complete supply chain. Users define their working screens on top of a company-wide standard and combine both stationery as well as mobile devices.
Planning
Orchestration
Applications and algorithms can be combined and orchestrated in a controlled and simple manner to automize also complex supply chain requirements and scenarios.
Simplified
Solution Approach
Guided workflows with relevant decision proposals reduce the complexity of planning activities and offer non-complex user guidance through intuitive user interfaces.
Across Your Organization & Business Partners
Advanced Planning Functions for a Digital Supply Chain
Cyclic Planning
This represents the next level of Rhythm Wheel planning with combined Rhythm Wheel types, dynamic Wheel-in-Wheel functionalities, simplified AI-supported parameterization, and full integration into Risk Management, Demand Management, and Inventory Management.
Tank Planning
Full-scope tank planning uses dynamic visualization and adoptable optimizer models to address customer-specific tank and pipe planning.
Skill Planning
Plan workforce capacities and skills in a holistic model. Design complex skill requirements, integrate skilled labor planning and supply chain planning in one solution, and increase product availability and planning reliability with this integrated planning approach.
ETO Planning
Make the complex endeavor of planning Engineer-to-Order (ETO) products easy by integrating engineering, costs, and change management into purpose-driven scenario management that supports real collaboration between users, as well as a full probabilistic supply planning approach.
Equipment & Tool Planning
Consider equipment and tool availability in parallel to standard constraints on production planning and scheduling using the Tool Optimizer to optimally solve contrary requirements.
Constraint Planning
Linking dependent production stages while automatically taking into consideration capacity constraints, lot size dependencies, and smart campaigning is the core of Avatar constraint planning. Sequence-dependent and data-driven planning approaches create realistic and feasible planning results and reduce constant firefighting activities.
Available to Promise
BOM component availability is ensured during automated and manual scheduling to ensure a feasible production plan. Smart heuristics create a finished good plan, where all components are available, while idle times on the line are still minimized.
Campaign Planning
Find a fully automated way to create and intuitively plan production campaigns based on various characteristics like time, costs, allergens, recipe, and tooling. Smart shifting and replanning of complete campaigns fully support characteristic-based panning with end-to-end KPI visualization.
DDMRP in Scheduling
Avatar fulfills DDMRP buffer logic during scheduling with capacity and time buffers. It indicates the complete impact on given inventory buffers in the supply chain network with prioritization of demand-driven activities. Thereby, it allows a full combination of push and pull planning and closes the loop in the Demand-Driven Operating Model (DDOM).
Collaborative Scenario Planning
Avatar cPP&S is a cloud-native solution that enables KPI-driven production planning and scheduling. It supports vertical and horizontal scenario planning in real time, optimization, and order sequencing. The automated decision support is enabled via a new integrated cognitive planning engine. Decision-makers get insights into the impacts of scheduling on the supply chain in real time.
Set up Your
Supply Chain
in Only a Few Days
Avatar easily integrates into existing system landscapes with out-of-the-box connectors for ERP, MES, business intelligence, and planning systems.
For scheduling, it provides real-time integration into SAP S/4HANA and SAP IBP or other relevant ERP and planning suites to allow end-to-end decision-making.
In addition, Avatar can effectively leverage data streams from MES systems or logistics visibility providers to automatically adjust planning data and suggest better planning outcomes, thereby overcoming uncertainties in asset and inventory planning.
Intelligent Scheduling
Resilient Scheduling
Include risk mitigation strategies and buffers in any replanning and rescheduling activity. Agile and fast reprioritization strategies with zero latency in decision-making are supported by real-time control towers.
Probabilistic Scheduling
Probabilistic scheduling overcomes the issue that reality disrupts all planned schedules by incorporating propagated uncertainties for demand and supply with dynamic tolerances into scheduling.
Automated Leveling
Predefined advanced leveling methods automate supply chain planning and scheduling even in the case of constrained situations.
The Art of User-Centric Experience
Customer centricity is at the very core of Elixum Solutions. Elixum Design System, is a robust framework designed to streamline and enhance the design process.
It offers a wide range of features, including a comprehensive library of reusable UI components, a unified color palette and typography guidelines, and a consistent design language. It ensures consistent and visually appealing user interfaces, reduces development time, and enhances collaboration across teams, making it an invaluable resource for solving intricate design challenges efficiently and effectively.
With Elixum Design System, we empower our teams to deliver exceptional user experiences and tackle even the most complex design projects with confidence.
Customer centricity is at the very core of Elixum Solutions. Elixum Design System, is a robust framework designed to streamline and enhance the design process.
It offers a wide range of features, including a comprehensive library of reusable UI components, a unified color palette and typography guidelines, and a consistent design language. It ensures consistent and visually appealing user interfaces, reduces development time, and enhances collaboration across teams, making it an invaluable resource for solving intricate design challenges efficiently and effectively.
With Elixum Design System, we empower our teams to deliver exceptional user experiences and tackle even the most complex design projects with confidence.
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