SCM Applications

Investigate supply chain exceptions.
Compare planning options and their expected impact.

Connect demand, inventory, supply, production, and logistics data with planning rules and constraints. We build an agentic analytics application that uses forecasting, simulation, and optimization models where appropriate to help teams investigate likely drivers, compare planning options, and hand off approved plans and actions to existing execution systems.

Demand, inventory, supply, and production plans do not change in isolation

A forecast revision or supply constraint can change inventory, production, logistics, service levels, and profitability at the same time. When data, planning assumptions, and review cycles are separated by function, teams struggle to assess the combined impact and compare feasible responses.

Demand Volatility

Assess how changes in demand and forecast error affect inventory, supply, and production plans.

Inventory Trade-offs

Compare service level, safety stock, minimum order quantity (MOQ), shelf-life limits, and inventory cost across policy options.

Supply Constraints

Incorporate material availability, production capacity, lead times, delivery commitments, and logistics constraints when reviewing feasible plans.

Profitability Impact

Analyze how planning changes may affect revenue, cost, inventory disposition, and profitability by product and customer.

Start with a high-priority planning decision—not the entire supply chain

We select the initial use case based on the customer’s planning process, data environment, expected value, and practical ability to act on the result.

Demand & Forecast Review

Review forecast bias and outliers, event treatment, the scale of plan changes, and demand risk.

Inventory Policy

Compare safety-stock and target-inventory settings by item and location, together with service levels, inventory rebalancing, and disposition options.

Supply & Production Planning

Compare supply and production scenarios under material, capacity, MOQ, and delivery constraints.

S&OP & S&OE

Bring plan-versus-actual performance, priority exceptions, scenario trade-offs, decisions, and actions into a shared review.

Logistics Cost & Service Impact

Analyze transportation terms, shipment volumes, inventory location, logistics cost, and service impact together.

Planning Operations & Exception Management

Manage planning calendars, data completeness, exception priorities, review and approval steps, meeting materials, and follow-up actions.

Go beyond exception detection to review likely drivers, options, and expected impacts

01
DETECT
Identify changes and planning exceptions
Compare plans with actuals and assess defined ranges and trends to identify the items, locations, and periods that require review.
02
DIAGNOSE
Investigate likely drivers and related impacts
Review demand, inventory, supply, production, and logistics data in sequence to assess likely drivers and downstream effects.
03
SIMULATE
Model scenarios under business rules and constraints
Change demand and supply assumptions or planning policies, then compare the estimated effects on inventory, service levels, production, and P&L.
04
REVIEW
Compare expected impacts, risks, and open questions
Present the expected impact of each option together with its assumptions, constraints, and unverified inputs for review.
05
HAND OFF & LEARN
Hand off approved plans and capture outcomes
Send only reviewed and approved plans and actions to execution systems, then record plan-versus-actual performance and observed effects.

Use the analytical, forecasting, simulation, and optimization methods suited to the planning task

We do not use an LLM as the calculation, forecasting, or optimization engine. Structured calculations and fit-for-purpose models handle forecasting and constraint-based analysis; the agent invokes the required data and models according to defined procedures and use conditions.

Supply Chain Data Foundation

Organize item, customer, location, bill of materials (BOM), inventory, order, plan, and actual data using consistent definitions.

Business Rules & Knowledge

Structure planning cycles and policies, thresholds, constraints, exceptions, metric formulas, and review criteria.

Forecasting & Statistical Models

Analyze demand patterns and volatility, forecast error, risk ranges, and contributing factors.

Simulation & Optimization

Apply what-if analysis and inventory, supply, and production simulations, using linear programming (LP) or mixed-integer programming (MIP) where appropriate.

Agent Skills

Define procedures for exception analysis and plan review, including conditions for data and model use and validation rules.

Planning Application

Present signals, likely drivers, scenarios, options, evidence, and actions in an interface designed for business review.

Complement existing ERP, APS, and MES systems rather than replace them

Integrate the required SCM data in Snowflake and connect to existing planning and execution systems only where the workflow requires it. Existing data platforms or other analytical services may be used when they better fit the customer environment.

Data Foundation

Organize current and historical data from SAP or other ERP systems, WMS, TMS, MES, and planning systems for the analytical use case.

Planning Integration

Connect APS and planning-tool inputs, outputs, versions, and change history to maintain a consistent basis for analysis.

Execution Handoff

Pass only reviewed and approved plans and actions to execution systems, and track processing status and failures.

Traceability & Feedback

Record analytical evidence, planning changes, and execution outcomes for subsequent planning and policy review.

Where a data foundation is required, the work may be combined with AI-Ready Data Foundation and SAP to Snowflake Migration.

Validate one planning question with actual data before expanding the scope

01
USE CASE & VALUE
Define the planning decision and intended value
Document the current decision process, recurring exceptions, target metrics, and the initial priority.
02
DATA & KNOWLEDGE
Confirm data, planning rules, and constraints
Assess data availability and quality, then structure planning policies, constraints, metrics, and exception criteria.
03
PROTOTYPE & EVALUATE
Evaluate the model on representative scenarios
Use actual data and business cases to assess analytical quality, practical feasibility, and expected impact.
04
BUILD & INTEGRATE
Build the application and required connections
Implement the analytical models, agent, user interface, review procedures, and required data and execution integrations.
05
OPERATE & IMPROVE
Use operating evidence to guide expansion
Review quality, usage, and plan-versus-actual results, then improve the models, agent skills, and business knowledge before extending the scope.

Start with one high-priority supply chain planning decision

Tell us about the recurring exceptions and planning decisions, the data and systems in use, and the forecasting or simulation scope under consideration. We will help define the first application use case.

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