Customer orders materialize daily and need to be reconciled against the original daily forecast, and product runs adjusted accordingly. Forecast accuracy is assured by the statistical and causal forecasting at weekly or monthly levels and the daily apportionment across the selected profile. Users can then override the daily forecast if needed, or even simulate the selection of an alternative profile. Another must in today's manufacturing environment is collaboration among users over wide area networks, as well as with customers and suppliers over the Internet. It supplies the complete communications infrastructure, both client and server, to allow fast, remote distributed communication.
Collaborator also lets users reconcile differing plan levels and shared resource constraints.
That capability is important in any multi- plant environment that requires centralized views of plans and capacity. Collaborator means users don't need to spend hours struggling to translate different plans into one cohesive network. Logility Value Chain Solutions deliver advanced collaborative planning and synchronization between demand opportunities, supply constraints and logistics operations. PR Newswire Association, Inc.