Use Case: How VCRP™ Planning & Response Works

The Value Chain leader is a Houston based Chemicals firm. Assume a major end customer has a large spike in demand that must be flowed through 5 Tiers of distribution and production in order to meet customer expectations on time. The Key ingredient is in short supply and is produced by a second tier supplier. There is a pre-existing resource plan, but the demand spike exceeds plan and available resources.

1. VCRP™ using the CAF Platform technology, enables Multi-tier visibility of plans, actual demand, inventory, supply capacity and logistics lead times, from End Customer, Distributor, OEM planner and Supplier view points. Data is synchronized daily using an in built master data management tool and is exchanged with all partner sites in their own format and nomenclature
2. VCRP™ performs Auto Planning and Auto Execution to accommodate unexpected impacts across multiple tiers, if possible, within pre-established/configurable business policy rules. Where no solution exists that respects both requirements and supply policies, manual intervention is alarmed and escalated
3. Planners manually step through highlighted, unsolved issues and prioritize best choices, using scenario planning tools and collaborative multi-partner interaction in real time, inside the platform
4. VCRP™ feeds resulting decisions to all partner systems of record for execution
5. Automatic closed-loop follow up occurs, as well as KPI monitoring on a continuous basis

The result is that the customer is satisfied, other customers’ needs are respected, and the response is executed efficiently. No panic. No Firefighting.