MRP to ASCP Upgrade

Is your company bogged down with lack of planning systems capability to successfully plan and
monitor out your business? Do you wish you had all the critical information at your fingertips to
plan and execute your business plan?

With changing nature of business conditions and new competitive threats in the market place it is
natural to expect more from your business applications. Numerous companies like you have
recognized the importance of new and improved business application capabilities.

Why upgrade to ASCP?

Increased Customer responsiveness

• Plan based customer promising and commitment process
• Quick root cause analysis of order fulfillment
• Shorter planning cycles enables quick responses
• Enables closed loop sales and operations planning

Productivity gains
• Quicker plan analysis – planner productivity
• Sustained profitability and improved margins
• Enables you to run holistic plans for the entire supply chain
• Allows you to seamlessly integrate with trading partners

Improved decision making capability

• Intelligent offloading and balancing of work
• Opportunistic use of existing supplies in the supply chain
• Priority based allocation of supplies

Tighter control of business processes

• Improved forecast accuracy
• Closed loop control system for many operational measures
• Measure statistics such as ‘on time delivery’, ‘inventory turns’, ‘utilization’ etc.
• Ready access to granular and aggregate plan financial performance – profitability, costs
incurred etc.

It is not rocket science

No programming required: Process of defining and running a plan is very similar to your
existing process. You do not need programming skills to define, run, and analyze the plans

Understandable results: Provides you dependable, consistent and repeatable results every time,
you do not have to worry about questionable results.

Natural progression: You do not have to use all the capabilities of ASCP at once. You can start
with unconstrained version of ASCP and get a lot of the benefits mentioned above right away.
Depending on your specific situation you can progress to run constrained plans with enforcing
demand due dates or with enforcing constraints. You can take full advantage of the system
capabilities by running optimized plans