Manufacturers face increasing challenges to maximize both profitability and customer service. Product mixes are more diverse, industrial supply chains more complex, and customer requirements more demanding. Attempting to manage this new industrial supply chain requires more than a hodgepodge of partially connected databases and BI tools.

Vanguard Predictive Planning™ for Manufacturing Resource Planning is a unified cloud planning system that automates forecasting processes while applying best-in-class analytics to optimize capacity planning, production throughput, and service and inventory levels. Vanguard easily explodes Bill of Materials (BOM) from finished goods forecasts and provides complex portfolio analyses and what-if testing using Monte Carlo simulation. In fact, Vanguard is one of the only forecasting & planning platforms built with state-of-the-art modeling and simulation capabilities to holistically analyze varying courses of action and outcome probabilities under unlimited scenarios.

To improve margins, Vanguard reduces costs by automating routine and complex decision-making processes and by connecting manufacturers in real-time with suppliers and buyers for improved supply chain efficiency and customer service. All of this maximizes the effectiveness of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), including Integrated Business Planning (IBP) with full financial integration.