Fill your MPS with forecast and safety stock

The output of the MPS (Master Production Schedule) is a capacity plan that is optimised for maximum runs and minimal changeovers. Keeping the setup costs low has become increasingly difficult. Single product offering shifted towards multiple size variations with increasing demand volatility. Clustering demand for a single item in a range of end products and calculating the required safety stock is not supported by MPS software. Slim4 is designed to fit this need.

"Being able to forecast accurately has given us the ability to be dynamic"

Van Leeuwen Wheeler, part of the Netherlands-based Van Leeuwen Pipe and Tube Group, is the UK's leading distributor and processor of carbon and stainless steel pipe, tube and bar products. Dave Jenkins: "We were looking at 7 days to calculate what we would need for the next three or four weeks. As well as being a lengthy process, it was no longer giving us the accuracy we needed". 

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