Maximize efficiency in inventory planning
Infor M3 Inventory Planning Workbench enhances your planning decisions by highlighting key aspects and exceptions in your material plan. This tool allows for viewing, simulating, and editing inventory, demand, and supply across various time frames. It supports monitoring material and product inventory planning in manufacturing and distribution companies, aiding essential roles and processes.
- Production Planners: Provides a Visual Master Plan and a planning tool that focuses on the availability and inventory levels of selected items.
- Buyers: Forecasts a time-phased inventory projection across different items grouped by supplier.
- Customer Service: Indicates items available for sale and promotes marketing efforts for items, as opposed to those with low inventory levels that may face shortages.
Highlights and exceptions within the application are defined using a flexible color-coding feature, allowing you to quickly identify the most critical planning issues and items that require immediate action.
These key indicators and measures can assist in your decision-making process:
- Dynamic coverage time per time bucket and in relation to shelf life.
- Violations of safety stock and maximum inventory levels.
- Forecast fulfillment percentage.
- Anticipation of future negative shelf life issues and positive inventory reclassification.
- Comparison of forecast versus order stock.
Infor is a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry. Infor develops complete solutions for its focus industries, including industrial manufacturing and distribution. Meridion is Alliance Partner and Channel Partner to the ERP system M3 and other related Infor products.
