Digital ecosystem for planning tools

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To provide some guidance in the evolving landscape of supply chain planning tools, we split the ecosystem in 7 categories linked to different steps in the supply chain process or linked to specific challenges in certain industries:

1. Tactical planning: Software solutions that help businesses to plan their medium-term plans, typically covering a time frame of several months to a year, finding the balance between service, costs and cash.
2. Detailed scheduling: Detailed scheduling tools are software solutions that help businesses to create and manage detailed schedules for their operations focusing on efficiencies of the production lines, typically covering a time frame of a few days to a few weeks.
3. S&OE: S&OE tools help businesses to manage their short-term planning and execution processes more efficiently and effectively, enabling them to respond quickly to changing market conditions and customer demand.
4. SC tactics - inventory optimization: SC Tactics Tools support companies in calculating the optimal planning parameters like safety stocks, economic production quantities etc.
5. SC visibility and collaboration: SC visibility tools provide companies with solutions to track and monitor movement of materials, products and information across the ecosystem, integrating suppliers and/or customers.
6. Network design: Tools that help businesses to design and optimize their manufacturing and distribution footprint.
7. Digital twin: Digital twin providers allow companies to make virtual versions of their supply chain and create what-if scenario's in this virtual environment to enable better decision making.