Distribution in the construction industry: visibility, synchronization and inventory control

ABC customization

Fine-tune your product classification based on what matters most to your business.

Advance Changeover matrix

Increases efficiency by minimizing downtime and optimizing transitions between production steps.

Advanced daily distribution

Fine-tune daily demand distribution with heuristics tailored to real monthly behaviour.

BIAS Indicator

Activate the BIAS indicator to detect overestimations or underestimations of actual demand values.

Budget snapshots

Compare budget versions to analyse their evolution throughout the year.

Calculate aggregate forecast

Optimize forecasting at more aggregated levels by grouping sales historical data taking advantage of a larger dataset.

Commercial budget

Provides the ability to visualize the commercial budget within the tool for analyzing fulfillment at different granular levels.

Container optimization

Optimize your overseas purchase orders by arranging them in containers based on dimensions and weight restrictions, maximizing efficiency for your orders to international vendors.

Custom hierarchy extended

Add more flexibility to your planning by expanding the grouping hierarchy to seven levels for deeper and more relevant analysis.

Custom S&OP cycle

Customize your S&OP cycle by creating and editing tasks and meetings that fit your operations.

Data export

Export data to Excel or other tools with applied filters.

DFA indicator

Activate the DFA indicator to detect to detect forecast deviations, indicating the level of accuracy in predicting actual demand.

Discontinued products with turnover

Report that allows identifying references within the portfolio that continue to have sales despite being discontinued.

Expansion of product attributes

Expand the available product attributes selection to a maximum of 20.

Extended forecasting horizon

Lengthen the planning horizon to analyze your demand beyond 12 months.

Financial Budget

Display your yearly budget in the system and monitor performance across different analysis levels.

Forecast targets

Enables the user to specify a total sales figure for a given time frame and automatically distributes it.

Forecasting concepts

Assign forecast modifications to predefined concepts for effective tracking of events that impact demand.

Integration connector

Integration service that facilitates the connection from the customer's system to SCP through a user-friendly interface.

Master production schedule (MPS)

Automatically plan the company's production, defining which products to manufacture, in what quantity, and when, to ensure deliveries are made within the established deadlines.

Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

Manage material requirements to meet the forecasted demand, calculating the necessary coverage to avoid excess stock and shortages. Based on this, automatically generate a purchase order plan, taking into account lead times and supplier order constraints.

Minimum order by supplier

The plugin ensures that your procurement planning meets the minimum order requirements set by your suppliers, whether by quantity or value.

Multi-vendor procurement

Assign multiple suppliers to a material, and SCP will select the most appropriate one based on its procurement criteria.

Multi-warehouse management

Manage inventory levels across multiple supply chain stages and monitor transfers and orders to ensure optimal availability and reduced costs throughout the network.

Pending orders manager

Load pending orders to visualize them alongside your demand forecast and use them to plan procurement and production accordingly.

Product launch configuration

Configure the demand distribution for new product launches, with the ability to replicate the launch of another product or market entry.

Product Lifespan-Aware Inventory Projection

Optimizes inventory management by considering expiration dates, adjusting purchases, and simulating stock flow based on product lifespan.

Product Substitution

Factor in the sales history of discontinued items to improve demand forecasts for the products that replace or cannibalize them.

Production scheduling

Sequence production orders by considering line availability, performance as well as setup and changeover times to optimize the production plan and meet deadlines. Detect bottlenecks and adapt the plan to changing needs in a convenient Gantt chart.

Raw material segmentation

Enhance your planning by accounting for raw materials that yield multiple products, semi-finished goods, or bulk outputs.

Sales calendar

Specify non-working days or days without sales dispatch to exclude them from the demand forecast.

Sales contract management

Manage sales contracts by monitoring their monthly fulfillment to adjust planning accordingly.

Sales contribution and deviation analysis

Weighted deviation report based on the sales volume of each product with respect to the total portfolio.

Sales pricing manager

Define accurate selling prices for demand forecasting. You can configure them at different levels of detail for specific date ranges.

Sales promotions management

Automatically detect outliers in the historical sales of a product that may have been caused by promotions and suggest the impact of future events indicated by the user.

Sell-In/Sell-Out demand management

Calculate demand forecasts by considering both sell-in to distributors or retailers and their sell-out to final customers. You can configure distributors' procurement parameters, including coverage, frequency, lead time, refill quantity, and even sales growth percentages.

Simulation of commercial orders

Estimate the first availability date for the products belonging to each customer order.

Stock management module

Enables daily tracking of stock levels and facilitates analysis through alerts and detailed reports.

Supplier contracts management

Monitor supplier contracts, providing alerts and key performance indicators.

Measure supplier performance and delivery reliability with a clear, configurable OTIF metric.

Suppliers procurement calendar

Specify non-working days of each supplier to take them into consideration in the procurement plan.

Unit conversion

Enables the unit of measure conversion for each product to facilitate a cross-functional assessment of quantities.

Week-level refinement for near-future forecast

Refine the short-term forecast by focusing on the most recent weeks and limiting further impact within a determined horizon.

YTD, YTG, and YoY indicators

Enhance the analysis of demand forecast results and facilitate decision-making with strategic indicators such as YTD (Year-to-Date), YTG (Year-to-Go), and year-over-year comparison metrics.