PLANNING

NOW Planning by Datatex automates and optimizes the entire planning process, ensuring synchronization between sales, production, and procurement.
It supports multiple planning scenarios and provides textile and apparel manufacturers with a flexible planning solution, fully integrated in NOW ERP software for Textile and Apparel.

What is the Planning module?

The Planning module manages demand and supply planning across the organization.
It transforms sales inquiries, forecasts, and orders into coordinated production and purchasing plans, ensuring alignment between customer demand, available resources, and delivery commitments.

The module supports different planning strategies, including Make to Order (MTO), Make to Stock (MTS), Engineer to Order (ETO), and Assemble to Order (ATO), adapting to diverse business models.

How does planning work within NOW ERP?

NOW Planning is fully integrated within the NOW ERP environment.
It synchronizes sales, production, and procurement activities, enabling consistent decision-making across departments.

By continuously updating demand, capacity, stock, and work-in-progress data, the system maintains realistic and achievable plans throughout the textile production supply chain.

Key features of the Planning module

• Automated demand and supply planning
Sales inquiries, forecasts, and orders automatically generate netted production demands and purchase requests at multiple levels.

• Multi-level planning and optimization
Supports netting, allocation, batching, and splitting of demand to improve on-time delivery, reduce lead times, and optimize resource utilization.

• Real-time order commitment (ATP – Available to Promise)
Instantly calculates and updates delivery dates based on lead times, stock levels, work-in-progress, and production capacity.

• Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
Supports single-company or multi-company planning with rule-based forecasts and optimized production lot sizing.

• Forecasting capabilities
Uses advanced algorithms, including ARIMA and AI models, to manage trends and project demand at different planning levels.

• Configurable rules and scheduling
Adapts to company-specific workflows for job lot allocation, scheduling, and material procurement.