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Analytics solutions can
be adopted by both services and manufacturing organisations addressing
requirements on all he supply chain planning decision levels. These
are (i) strategic, (ii) tactical, and (iii) operational |
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Strategic
Level Analytics |
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The strategic level usually
refers to the overall supply chain network design, therefore including
decisions on location, size, number of production plants, distribution
centres and suppliers. This level of planning also, takes into account
sourcing and deployment plans for each plant, distribution centre
and customer, as well as, the flow of goods throughout the network.
The time horizon considered at a strategic level is typically a few
years long. |
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Tactical
Level Analytics |
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The tactical level involves
decision making on the flow of goods throughout a given network configuration
(obtained by a strategic planning model) over a smaller time horizon.
The plans are usually time-dependent, and aim at the optimisation
of resources such as inventories and distribution channels across
the network over a period of a few months. Tactical plans may consider
aggregate views of production processes by incorporating partial levels
of a product's Bill of Materials. |
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Operational
Level Analytics |
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The operational level can
be considered as supply scheduling. Operational models usually consider
the lowest level of detail on plant routing, product Bill of Materials,
changeover and set-up times, and can be run several times per day
to account for any disruption in the production phase. |
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