Manufacturing Analytics Software
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Manufacturing Solutions
Manufacturing Analytics in the Age of COVID-19
COVID-19 is having a huge impact on the industry. SAS can help you adapt to today's challenges and plan for the future – with confidence.
Manufacturers have been facing unprecedented times.
Your primary focus is on the health and safety of your employees, customers and families while you simultaneously try to adapt your business to rapidly changing dynamics. SAS shares the same focused commitment. We're here to support you with domain experts, data scientists and SAS solutions to help you better comprehend, manage and navigate these uncertain times. As you deal with critical business issues across your organization, we can help you understand demand, optimize production, tune your supply chain and more.
- Manufacturing Line Optimization
- Supply Chain Scenario Planning
- Demand Planning Stability
- Supplier Integrity
Manufacturing Line Optimization
Optimizing manufacturing production plans and schedules during disruptions.
Many manufacturers are facing planning problems, scheduling challenges or both. SAS can help by enabling your planners to boost productivity and unlock new possibilities. We can enable your schedulers to maximize results despite extensive constraints. And we can help make tackling unique challenges – such as reducing the number of employees on a shift to maintain safe distancing requirements or preventing crossover of employees between lines or plants – more manageable. Software and services from SAS can help you create plans for:
- Supply – Where to purchase raw materials.
- Allocation – How to resolve constraints in the context of limited supply.
- Line optimization – What to produce, on which production line, in which order and with which team members.
Learn how analytics helps you continue to produce critical goods during disruptive times.
End-to-End Supply Chain Scenario Planning
Identify the best supply chain response to satisfy demand shifts and minimize operational costs.
Significant changes in demand patterns and constant market disruptions have many manufacturers struggling to stabilize end-to-end supply chains. SAS can help you take a comprehensive approach to supply chain planning so you can:
- Provide the best response across your end-to-end supply chain using an optimization model that balances supply chain costs and constraints with meeting sales goals.
- Create consistent, synchronized plans for purchasing, inventory, transportation, sales and manufacturing.
- Run multiple scenarios for demand forecasts based on different recovery expectations, or potential markdown and promotion strategies.
- Capture effects across your entire product portfolio, including regular, perishable and seasonal goods
Solution Brief
Find out how to identify the best supply chain response to satisfy demand shifts and minimize operational costs.
Article
Discover why disruptive storms are no match for progressive supply and demand planning.
Video
Learn how to use the OPTMODEL procedure to solve optimization problems on SAS® Viya®.
Demand Planning Stability
Adjust demand forecasts for scalability and rapid, detailed forecasting.
You're facing the critical challenge of how to predict and plan for significant changes in demand. SAS can help you improve demand sensing decisions across the supply chain – in the short term during the disease outbreak; in the midterm during the recovery period; and in the long term once the pandemic has subsided – with:
- Analytical recommendations for improving demand forecasts across all phases of the pandemic.
- Powerful data preparation capabilities for capturing both internal and external variables in forecast models.
- Machine learning algorithms to quickly assess demand shifts and automatically learn over time as new data is available.
- An iterative framework – from data to analytics to insights – that drives agile, improved forecasting decisions during times of uncertainty.
Forecasting Software
Discover how SAS Forecast Server automatically generates large numbers of high-quality forecasts – no coding required.
Article
Discover the six steps to predicting shifting demand patterns while navigating the coronavirus crisis.
Supplier Integrity
Ensure the integrity of your suppliers through continuous monitoring and analytics.
With limited production of supplies, companies around the world have worked quickly to find alternative suppliers of critical goods similar to what they normally purchase. Sometimes they've overpaid for those supplies or been exposed to risk from bad players who are abusing the situation. It's now apparent that many supply chains were overdependent on certain suppliers or were not well balanced. Some have even found that they’ve overlooked instances where they were fully dependent on a sole supplier for specific goods. SAS can help you ensure the integrity of your suppliers through continuous monitoring and analytics so you can:
- Conduct due diligence around critical suppliers.
- Comply with contractual conditions.
- Accurately analyze procurement spending.
- Optimize supplier choices in situations that demand fast, continual supplier onboarding.
White Paper
Find out how procurement integrity powered by continuous data monitoring can help you prevent fraud.
Solution Brief