QAD Digital Supply Chain Planning (DSCP)

Detailed Specification

Change is the only constant in life. By nature, supply chains are always evolving. Manufacturers and distributors continually strive to manage supply chain complexity and improve customer satisfaction while reducing inventory levels and costs.

Effective supply chain solutions provide instant visibility and intuitive decision support enabling companies to become more agile by exploiting supply chain complexity to make their supply chain a competitive business differentiation.

QAD DSCP provides a comprehensive end-to-end supply chain planning solution. It helps supply chain planning practitioners achieve the following business outcomes.

• Anticipate. QAD DSCP embeds best of breed, intuitive business analytics that provide visibility across the supply chain to ensure accurate decision making.
• Optimize. The solution uses advanced algorithmic and machine learning forecasting and constraint-based optimization methods to quickly determine the best and most feasible plan.
• Plan. QAD DSCP uses a single data model across all facets of planning. This tightly synchronizes plans for manufacturing, distribution, inventory management and procurement
• Respond. It is designed with the latest “response planning” techniques including demand sensing.
• Simulate. QAD DSCP synchronizes real-time with IoT to alert planners to events that may cause exceptions to the current plan. Planners are able to run end-to-end simulations across the model to determine the most appropriate course of action using high performance in-memory computing.
• Collaborate. There is an abundance of real-time intelligence in the minds of supply chain stakeholders that can add business value to planning. QAD DSCP is designed to harness the collective qualitative intelligence of all stakeholders.

QAD DSCP customers benefit from a more accurate picture of their supply chain future. This results in better forecasts, reduced inventory, higher customer fulfilment, and reduced costs from unforeseen events such as expedited freight costs and customer penalties.

QAD DSCP’s value extends beyond financial and operational metrics. QAD DSCP supports digital business transformation which allows companies to identify and respond quickly to new opportunities. The result is lower supply chain volatility and complexity which enables planners to focus on strategic objectives, risk management, new markets and portfolio management. This promotes new and enhanced business models and business value propositions.