Supply Chain Planning

SFaaS provides superior forecasts that serve as the backbone of the planning process. While some understanding of business operations is required to create optimal forecasts, this knowledge is not the critical element for success and is easily obtainable for the client’s business leaders.

SFaaS enables companies to leverage outside expertise that is specially trained in handling large volumes of data and the use of statistical methods to develop rigorous forecasts. When a SFaaS provider generates the forecasts, the firm’s business leaders and planners are able to focus on their top priority—running the business.

On a continuous basis, SFaaS helps to:

• Accelerate time-to-value with consistent, up-to-date forecasting
• Enhance team capabilities with expertise at a lower cost than building and sustaining an internal critical mass, reducing time to transform data and generate actionable insights
• Enable teams to direct energy toward managing daily business operations
• Enable confident decisions by leveraging our proprietary methodologies and investment-grade quality analytics to ensure better business outcomes

NTT DATA’s Demand Planning Intelligence Consortium (DPIC) analyzes the underlying drivers of demand uncertainty to help companies identify areas to improve their forecasting and demand planning processes—ultimately creating a competitive advantage. While 100% forecast accuracy is unrealistic, it's important to understand exactly where uncertainty exists to positively impact profitability and customer satisfaction.

Using a proprietary model-based benchmarking approach based on item-location level, final consensus forecast data, and transactional shipment data, NTT DATA maintains forecast accuracy and bias models that quantitatively capture the combined effect of specific demand, product and network characteristics.

With the help of data visualization and interactive analytics dashboards, DPIC communicates these opportunities in terms that are simple to understand and can be shared beyond your demand planning team.

Managed Analytics for Advanced Production Planning enables you to make better decisions on production run quantities, cycles and sequences to reduce inventory levels and improve customer service—all on a continuous basis with minimal investment in specialized planning resources and technology.

Leveraging our proprietary Planscape Production Planner (P3) application, Managed Analytics for Advanced Production Planning helps companies reconcile the need to provide exceptional customer service with the desire to manufacture efficiently.

NTT DATA’s Advanced Production Planning approach takes manufacturing planning and scheduling to a new level. With a powerful optimization solver and patented 3D graphics, P3 effectively reinvents the production planning process, creating better production plans and providing users with a superior way to understand, evaluate and modify them.

For many companies, inventory represents both a strategic asset for delivering customer satisfaction, and a source of capital investment and costs. Companies struggle to balance sufficient service levels with the right inventory mix. And the underlying demand behaviour differs by product, region and season. These challenges are further compounded for many companies operating with limited distribution centre space.

This is precisely where IOaaS creates significant value. NTT DATA’s IOaaS enables companies to leverage outside expertise specially trained in handling large volumes of data and the use of inventory modelling applications to develop valid inventory target levels. IOaaS also generates quarterly or semi-annual stocking quantities, which become the basis for timely production and inventory deployment and are easily obtainable for business leaders.

IOaaS, provided by NTT DATA’s supply chain consulting practice, continuously:

• Accelerates time-to-value by keeping inventory target levels consistently up to date
• Augments team capabilities with expertise, at a lower cost than building and sustaining a critical mass internally, reducing time to transform data and generate actionable insights
• Enables teams to focus on their top priority: managing daily business operations
• Enables confident decisions by leveraging our proprietary methodologies and investment-grade quality analytics to ensure better business outcomes