Supply chain planning is broken — and it's costing you
Today's manufacturers are forced to stitch together multiple disconnected systems for S&OP, S&OE, demand planning, and factory scheduling. The result: data latency, planning gaps, and missed commitments.
• The distributor channel hides true demand: In many complex discrete industries like semiconductor and medical supply chains, what's actually selling through to end customers is largely invisible. This causes revenue generating demand signals to be distorted and unseen distributor inventory building up in the channel. The end result is revenue projections that are unreliable.
• Disconnected S&OP and execution systems: High-level plans can't provide timely cross-plant coordination and communicate with shop floor execution, leading to decisions based on stale data.
• Subcontractor networks and combinatorial complexity: Complex discrete supply chains span dozens of subcontractors that have different capacities, lead times, qualifications, and cost structures. The number of planning combinations grows exponentially. Humans with spreadsheets simply can't keep up, and the result is poor use of existing inventory, contracted capacity, and product substitution alternatives.
• Customer-specific constraints and configuration complexity: Every order can carry unique requirements: Each order can carry unique requirements: product specs, approved suppliers, quality grades, country-of-origin rules, regulatory certifications, and alternative acceptable configurations. Standard planning systems do not have an efficient way to plan in this situation, forcing planners to police them manually or create an explosion of part numbers.
• Slow, inaccurate order promising: Sales commits delivery dates without visibility into real-time full supply chain materials and capacity availability.
Differentiated Capabilities
Your long-range sales and operations plan and your day-to-day execution run on the same data model with no synchronization, no data translation, no lag. When supply conditions change on the shop floor, the plan updates automatically. Planners and operators always work from a single version of the truth.
When paired with Eyelit’s Factory Connect, planning and shop floor execution share a single real-time data model and a single integration point to ERP. There is no decision latency, no data translation between systems, and no gap between what the plan expects and what the factory is doing.
Manage distributor channel inventory with visibility into what's selling through to end customers. Early warning signals for increasing or decreasing sell-through prevent channel stuffing, reduce inventory risk in the distribution chain, and support more accurate revenue projections.
At an order level, supply chain planning must account for tariffs, country-of-origin restrictions, and qualified supplier rules. The solution architecture automatically routes supply around tariff exposure and enforces customer-specific sourcing qualifications without manual workarounds or part number proliferation.
Attributes propagate through the full production network, upstream and downstream, with no limit on BOM depth or complexity, and apply to every planning object including production processes and resources. Combined with constraint-based optimization, the system finds the best plan across all constrained orders simultaneously. ABP 3.0 is the structured foundation that makes customer-specific Agentic AI decisions tractable.
Set calculated safety stock targets at every tier, raw material, WIP, sub-assembly, finished goods, and distributor channel, using stochastic models that minimize total pipeline cost while meeting customer service level objectives. Inventory is positioned where it protects service most efficiently, not where it accumulates by default.
S&OP operates in monthly cycles and broad time buckets. It cannot react when a capacity shortfall, supplier disruption, or quality event hits one or more locations today. Eyelit SIOP continuously re-plans at the day level, re-sequences work orders, and keeps customer commitments intact without waiting for the next planning cycle.
Most planning systems bucket capacity in weekly or monthly intervals, which makes daily execution plans unreliable. Eyelit SIOP models multi-step routings with day-level granularity across internal and subcontractor operations, producing plans that are immediately executable without manual adjustment by planners.
Classical ATP/CTP is replaced by Attribute Based Planning combined with AI. Attributes defined at the individual demand level are propagated through the entire supply chain, enforcing each customer's specific constraints at every tier. AI continuously updates allowed attribute alternatives, so the system learns and adjusts automatically.
Key Solutions
Align demand, supply, capacity, and financial plans across your organization through constrained optimization with scenarios as the tool for exploring the uncertain. Because S&OP and S&OE share the same model, the approved plan flows directly into execution without translation or data loss.
Brings every signal together, statistics, sales, customers, and market data, so your plan reflects the full picture, not just the loudest input. The machine learning (ML) weighted consensus scores every forecast input against its own track record and weights accordingly. Paired with distributor sell-through visibility and attribute-aware attach rate forecasting for complex configured products, your plan reflects what's happening in the market.
Optimization-first, end-to-end planning across multi-plant manufacturing, distribution, replenishment, capacity, and materials within one unified model. The optimization algorithms simultaneously evaluate all feasible supply chain alternatives to deliver the optimal plan automatically.
Set calculated safety stock targets at every supply chain tier, raw material, WIP, sub-assembly, finished goods, and distributor, using multi-echelon inventory optimization (MEIO) to minimize total pipeline cost while meeting service level objectives.
Continuously re-plans and schedules work orders across the entire supply chain at the detailed level, without planner intervention, keeping commitments intact when disruptions hit.
An industry-leading approach to planning complex ETO, ATO, CTO, MTO, and MTS environments with customer-specific specs. ABP 3.0 combines ABP with Optimization and AI enablement.
Classical order promising replaced by Attribute Based Planning combined with AI. Customer-specific attributes defined per demand are propagated through the entire supply chain and continuously refined by AI. This enables intelligent, constraint-aware commitments that adapt with every order.
Real results with the right SIOP
Reduce the risk of stockouts that waste capital and disrupt production. Make smarter decisions with data-driven visibility across your supply chain
Identify bottlenecks with production capacity, machine availability, and inventory utilization before there are impacts to customers
Create accurate, buildable production plans that meet customer commitments
Eliminate manual process and streamline allocation across multiple production sites
Align throughput and capacity to meet promised delivery dates. Increase operational efficiency while achieving OTIF targets
Implementing Advanced Plant Scheduling to Unlock Supply Chain Value
Unlocking Value:
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Covering key compliance areas for Planning solutions
Unlocking industry 4.0
The solutions aid automotive industry competitiveness. They support WIP tracking, inventory management, and IATF 16949 compliance.
Tailoring the solutions to provide operations control, data processing and storage, input and output management, sensing, wireless connectivity, and power management.
Providing extensive functionality and features to enable customers to efficiently manufacture products with precision-controlled six sigma processes.
Smart factory planning,
scheduling, and decision execution
Discover the powerful combination of Advanced Planning, Scheduling, and Sequencing with a full MES/MOM capability that includes Quality, SPC, IOT, Special Work Requests, Factory Connectivity, Factory Analytics/Insights and ERP/Supply Chain System Integration.
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