PLANNING MODULE

NOW Planning by Datatex is a powerful solution that automates and optimizes the entire planning process, ensuring seamless synchronization between sales, production, and procurement.

NOW Planning equips textile and apparel manufacturers with a cutting-edge tool, fully integrated in NOW ERP software for Textile and Apparel, ensuring agility and precision in every step of the textile production supply chain.

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 system.
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 & Supply Planning – Sales inquiries, forecasts  and orders automatically generate netted Production Demands and Purchase Requests at multiple levels.

• Multi-Level Planning & Optimization – Handles netting, allocation, batching, and splitting of demand while optimizing to enhance on time delivery, shorter lead times and resource utilization.

• Real-Time Order Commitment (ATP – Available to Promise) – Calculates and updates delivery dates instantly based on lead times, stock, work-in-progress, and production capacity.

• Material Requirements Planning (MRP) – Supports single or multi-company planning with rule-based demand forecasts and optimal production lot sizes.

• Forecasting Capabilities – Uses advanced algorithms like ARIMA and AI models for trend management and demand projection at various levels.

• Configurable Rules & Scheduling – Adapts to your organization’s specific workflow, ensuring efficiency in job lot allocation and material procurement.