Vanguard Predictive Planning for workforce
Vanguard Predictive Planning for workforce
Workforce
The lifeblood of any organization is its workforce. Optimal workforce planning involves a continual process to align the needs not only of the organization today, but tomorrow, to ensure it can meet service, production, and organizational objectives. Vanguard Predictive Planning combines state-of-the-art predictive capabilities to determine the future needs of the workforce; with market-leading abilities to identify capacity constraints and determine optimized recommendations.
Through unified planning with Vanguard Predictive Planning, workforce planning is truly integrated with all lines of business. Detailed headcount and compensation costs are natively linked to the financial plan. If a change is made to a division’s headcount, the finance team can see the impact in real-time. Leveraging pre-built templates, organizations can reduce hours of wasted labor calculating salaries, bonuses, benefits, and other compensation. With Vanguard Predictive Planning, all of these activities can be modeled and forecasted instantly.
True IBP
Vanguard Predictive Planning, an Integrated Business Planning (IBP) platform, puts HR management at the virtual hub of the enterprise for 360-degree coordination with diverse teams and departments. Whether you’re trying to mobilize people or measure practices and plans, Vanguard Predictive Planning widens the gap between the well-coordinated enterprise, and those anxiously awaiting surprise.
Featured case studies
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increase in inventory utilization
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improvement in forecast accuracy
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reduction in inventory spending
Results
“Billions [of dollars] in operating margin and trillions in market capitalization separate supply chain winners from losers,” according to AMR Research.
Best-in-class planners see:
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reduction in inventory
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stronger perfect order fulfillment
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shorter cash to cash cycle times
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fewer stockouts than competitors
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Technical features
Promotion planning
The ability to model and manage promotions (or integrate with third-party promotion tools) is a key differentiator of Vanguard Predictive Planning. With a robust set of techniques to model promotions, Vanguard Predictive Planning sets itself apart.
Master production scheduling
Vanguard Predictive Planning creates the optimal schedule for production based on rules and constraints.
S&OP workflows
Workflows are the backbones of every supply chain plan. Vanguard Predictive Plan includes advanced, easy-to-define and support workflows to enable planning and S&OP processes.
AI engine
Vanguard Predictive Planning leverages artificial intelligence in multiple aspects of the platform, including forecast method selection, demand prediction and pattern detection, and automation of tasks.
Demand profiles
Forecast automation and accuracy plus optimized inventory and operations increase profits and profitability by reducing stockouts, lost sales, emergency orders, and labor and customer acquisition costs.
Automatic detection
Vanguard Predictive Planning automatically detects and excludes outliers from the forecast.
Advanced workflows
Workflows are the backbones of every supply chain plan. Vanguard Predictive Planning offers users advanced, easy-to-define and support workflows to enable both planning and S&OP processes.
Exception-based planning
More mature supply chains manage by exception; Vanguard Predictive Planning enables extensive exception-based processes.
BI and dashboards
There is no need for a third-party BI solution. Vanguard Predictive Planning includes robust reporting and dashboard capabilities.
End-to-end planning
Vanguard Predictive Planning is an integrated business planning platform that provides organizations with true end-to-end planning and visibility.
Collaboration Hub
Vanguard Predictive Planning comes with an industry-leading collaboration portal, which enables organizations to never again have siloed planning or limitations to who can collaborate.
Machine learning
Vanguard Predictive Planning leverages machine learning algorithms as part of its artificial intelligence capabilities.
Demand sensing
Vanguard Predictive Planning includes proprietary forecasting methods for near real-time forecasts.
Real-time analytics
With a unified data model, Vanguard Predictive Planning delivers analytics in real-time as soon as any changes occur to the plan or data. Additionally, users can set alerts to be notified of such changes.
In memory what-if analysis
With support for millions of SKUs, Vanguard users can forecast instantly for any number of products and scenarios. Vanguard’s in-memory database (UHIO) enables lightning fast calculations so users do not have any downtime.
Simulation
Move past single-threaded what-if scenario planning to true simulation. Monte Carlo simulation lets you instantly run hundreds or thousands of scenarios with a range of variables.
Monte Carlo simulation
Plan based on probabilities and improve forecast confidence intervals using Monte Carlo simulation.
Market-leading statistical forecasting
Part of the value supply chain planning software brings to organizations is a library of forecasting methods. Vanguard Predictive Planning is the most robust on the market, providing users with the most accurate results.
Financial forecasts
While some solutions can “dollarize” plans, Vanguard Predictive Planning creates financial forecasts including cashflow, net income, and various financial reports out-of-the-box.
Top-down, bottom-up, and middle-out forecasting
Regardless of how your organization generates forecasts, Vanguard Predictive Planning supports it all. Vanguard also supports any combination of SKU-location, SKU-warehouse, customer, and more.
Collaborative forecasting
Collaborative planning and forecasting
What-if scenarios
Complete support for unlimited what-if scenarios that you can save and share. Additionally, non-forecast owners can propose forecast changes for any scenario.
Causal forecasting
Organizations should try to determine the leading indicators that impact
Segmentation
Vanguard Predictive Planning supports a wide array of SKU segmentation methods including, but not limited to, ABC, speed, cost, or service levels.
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