M3 Fresh Food Planner

Fresh Food Planner is an online planning workbench that supports the complete process from evaluating customer order stock, adjusting final demand, simulating and adjusting production plan, firming-up and releasing production orders.

In the workbench you have a complete view of selected items with demand, stock and supply.

The planning buckets are defined by the "point-in-time-table" concept and allow you to have dynamic planning buckets covering parts of day, full day or multiple days according to a schema. Break points for planning can be anytime during a day to help you plan for production to meet demand for early or late shipments throughout the day.

The forecast pacing concept is used to track growth of order stock hour by hour and allows for comparison with similar days to evaluate trends and adjust final forecast up or down.

You can interact and simulate planning scenarios directly in the workbench grid. A specific fresh-food planning algorithm can include a dynamic safety stock to cover for uncertainty within and after a given planning bucket. When you are done planning you can firm up proposals and release production orders from within the workbench.