# Supply Chain Planning (SCP) Software

Make disconnected inventory and production data a thing of the past with Plex Supply Chain Planning solutions.

Face your toughest inventory challenges head-on with Plex Supply Chain Planning (SCP).

## What is Plex Supply Chain Planning Software?
Plex Supply Chain Planning is a cloud-based solution that connects to your Plex ERP, MES, and other data sources to provide integrated demand and supply planning. It gives real-time visibility into inventory, recommends optimal stock levels and replenishment, aligns cross-functional teams via consensus planning, and helps manufacturers meet on-time delivery goals while reducing waste and inefficiencies.

## Plex Supply Chain Planning (SCP)
### Take Control of Inventory
Leverage real-time visibility and transparency to optimize resources.

Often manufacturing operations lack the insights needed to plan and forecast inventory with accuracy. This means when a rapid market or demand shift happens, the ability to remain agile and react with confidence isn't there.

With Plex Supply Planning software, real-time insights from across the business, coupled with inventory visibility help you act with confidence. All your Supply Chain Planning and production can happen in a single solution. With reduced waste and scrap.

### Cross-Functional Collaboration
Advance productivity levels and unite the business.

Sales & Operations Planning is a cross-functional process that requires a seamless workflow. Without it, you're probably experiencing poor communication across your planning silos.

With Plex Supply Chain Planning tools, you benefit from integrated business planning that communicates bi-directionally with your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Manufacturing Execution System (MES), and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

### Error-Proof Planning
Get real results by connecting planning and production.

Deciphering mounds of data into a pragmatic plan isn't easy. You have to analyze the market, understand customer needs, know your production capacity constraints, and match demand to supply. It is a true marriage of the art of planning with the science of contextualized data.

Plex Supply Chain Planning takes the guesswork out of the data for more reliable forecasts and plans. Keep customers satisfied and contribute to your bottom line.

### What is Smart Manufacturing?
- **Connect**: Connect your business and remove data silos with cloud-based planning to unite people, processes, and supply chains.
- **Automate**: Automate and remove the guesswork from planning with system-calculated recommendations for order requirements, safety stock, and lead times.
- **Track**: Track data, material usage, and related financial transactions to optimize your supply chain.
- **Analyze**: Analyze and evaluate what matters most to drive informed inventory decision-making.

## Explore Plex Supply Chain Management’s Features
### Supply Chain Planning and Collaboration
Maintain control and visibility with integrated and advanced planning, supply and demand planning, distribution requirements planning (DRP), and master scheduling.

### Customers & Sales Management
Cross-functional, consensus-based plans lead to actionable master production schedules (MPS) that collect input from sales, marketing, engineering, and operations.

### Product & Program Management
Management of the details and progress of your programs and products provides status updates to customers, ensures that processes are consistent and repeatable, and drives cross-functional alignment between customer demand, engineering, and production.

## Customer Testimonials
- **Marcus Merchant - Director of IT, Olde Thompson**: “We’re now at nearly 99 percent on-time and in-full deliveries, which is extremely rare. That’s thanks in large part to Plex—and it’s opening the door to new business.”
- **Analucia Pandini - BirdRock Demand Planner Specialist**: "It’s so easy to identify the trends, ups and downs, potential issues, and to show other departments what’s going on so we can do something now.”
- **Shelley Roberts - Coast Products Supply Chain Manager**: "Plex Supply Chain Planning has got to be one of the easiest systems I’ve ever worked in as far as planning, so innovative and person-friendly.”