Planning

Today's needs for increased efficiency, flexibility and capacity utilisation demand world-class planning processes. In a multinational and/or multi-site environment, planning processes should be aligned at various levels. Long-term capacity planning must be balanced with product portfolio development, the planning for sales and operations must balance demand and supply on a monthly level, materials and resources planning must ensure that raw materials and other resources are in place at the right time, while detailed scheduling must fulfil all order requirements.

At Voorne Partners we have experience in optimising planning at all levels, from long-term strategic planning through S&OP, MRP planning and detailed scheduling. We acknowledge and understand that planning dynamics can differ per type of industry. As example the planning processes for the process -, discrete - and repetitive industry are very different. Even within the process industry differences occur, e.g. food, chemicals and pharmaceuticals.

Depending on the industry, the concepts of Just In Time, Lean, Make to Forecast, Stock Replenishment, Make to Order or Available to Promise can be applied, or an appropriate mix of these can be developed.

We combine knowledge of supply-chain management and planning on all levels with wide experience in ERP, advanced planning & scheduling systems, and with in-depth expertise in business process and organisation.