Consider sales quotations in Planning Optimization

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Business value

Businesses can generate more accurate material requirement plans by including demand from sales quotations in their master planning calculations.

Feature details

Planning Optimization can now provide more accurate material requirement plans by incorporating demand from sales quotations into its calculations. For each master plan, planners can specify the confidence level required for a sales quotation to be considered.

Planning Optimization benefits

With Planning Optimization, companies can benefit from:

  • Significantly improved performance and scalability with in-memory processing.
  • Minimized system impact on other processes made possible by running master planning as a separate service.
  • Near-real-time insights into requirement changes, achieved by running master planning several times daily during office hours.

Learn more about Planning Optimization

For more information about the Planning Optimization migration process and answers to frequently asked questions, see Migration to Planning Optimization for master planning.

See also

Plan based on quotations and RFQs (docs)