Module 1: Process Overview
- Setting the stage with a review of Supply Planner processes and business issues
- Discussions on the Demand and Supply Planning processes and work flow
- How Aspen Supply Planner can help with planning issues (with examples)
Module 2: Supply Planner Functionality Overview
- Overview of the Aspen MIMI SP Model
- How the SP Data Management tree structure parallels the types of data found in a supply planner model
- Constraints and decisions involved in formulating a model
- Differentiate between the two types of mathematical techniques available in Aspen Supply Planner for optimizing planning problem solutions
- Introduction to Optimization and Linear Programming, with examples
- Comparison of Mixed Integer Programs with Linear programs
- Introduction to solving MIP problems
- Business Process Workflow
- Example of data flow in and out
Module 3: Data Management
- Understanding and updating the data
- Opening the Case file
- Defining the Time Horizon
- How to import data
- Working with Time Effective Dates; mapping methods
- Working with Production and Capacity Data; terminology, resources mapping
- Operations; combining operations into classes, defining the base Operating Calendar, and defining exceptions to the base; Operations reports, incorporating planned downtime
- Navigating Supply Planner user interfaces;
- The Data Viewer
- Using the Operations Details View
Module 4: Plan Generation
- Control Settings for generating a plan
- Setting up Demand & Inventory Data Controls
- Selecting suitable Generate Plan Options
- Model parameters, e.g. Demand options, capacity options,
- Advanced Controls, e.g. Optimizer settings
- Solution steps; how to use step-by-step plan generation facilities, using the reports and log files
Module 5: Plan Analysis
- Using the Summary Report Interface
- Understanding the summary reports
- Plan Summary
- Profit, Activity, Cost, Transportation and Capacity Utilization summaries
- Sales and Operations Planning reports – volume by material summaries, materials balance reports, marginal supply costs
- Analyzing a Supply Plan
- Overview of plan analysis
- Using Inventory Analysis reports
- Demand Coverage calculations
- Using the Shortage and Infeasibility Analysis tool
- Using Bottleneck Analysis
Module 6: What-If Analysis
- Using the Scenario manager to save delete and compare scenarios
- Using solution overrides to generate a new plan
Module 7: Publishing the Plan
- Exporting data from the Supply Planner
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