Aligni Provides the Tools to Manage Your Inventory Needs
Consolidate your inventory and production management in one application with Aligni and ensure seamless operations with more efficient part and material utilization. Our tools manage component demand and inventory forecasts against upcoming production requirements. This facilitates proactive planning and ordering to prevent stockouts and improve efficiency over longer time periods.
Manage Your Day-to-Day Inventory and Production Needs from One Application
Complexity doesn’t just happen in the future. Overseeing the needs of today’s builds can be just as challenging as managing over the long term. Aligni is designed to reduce inventory management complexity with tools that help buyers and managers quickly identify, assess, and act on issues that may arise.
Aligni’s Material Shortage Report (MSR) helps break down the individual, short term part needs of each build. The report’s color coding and icons quickly explain current conditions and where attention needs to be placed first. Aligni’s advanced MSR is updated in real-time (not based on a weekly or daily schedule) and efficiently operates with scores or even hundreds of builds on the production schedule. This helps managers understand upcoming issues and react quicker to potential problems.
Knowing when new parts are arriving helps organizations optimize production to what will be available rather than being caught when parts run out. Aligni’s material shortage report also helps organizations understand pending resupply orders. The MSR can sort these orders by lead time, need-by date, or a variety of other filtering approaches (e.g. part type, assemblies, manufacturer). The Aligni MSR also provides order lead time indicators on the same display. Factoring in order lead times helps make sure parts and materials are ordered with enough time to arrive before they’re needed in production.
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Tools to Help You Know What’s Going On Now
Managing inventory and production effectively starts with collecting all available information and presenting it in a way that presents a clear picture of what’s needed in the future. That’s what Aligni does with its Demand Matrix and Inventory Forecast tools.
Starting with customer demand, Aligni compiles the quantities needed for every sales order into its Product Demand Matrix screen. It combines all anticipated product demand into one screen for easier understanding of what’s needed for the entire organization. The revenue, gross profit, and customer breakdowns provided in the Product Demand Matrix can be useful for financial forecasts and investor relations.
Aligni’s Component Demand Matrix screen provides a similar collated view for the parts and materials that go into the orders listed in Product Demand Matrix. This breakdown provides specific strategic benefits to organizations. Sharing these component forecasts with vendors can help lead to better long-term pricing contracts by combining individual build needs into larger group orders further out in time. Component Demand Matrix also helps understand part lifecycle awareness to highlight high use parts instead of specifying sunsetting parts.
The Inventory Forecast tool helps businesses understand near term part and material demands. This helps companies anticipate when parts and materials will dip into safety stock levels before they do and plan accordingly. The tool’s graphical format quickly explains how production demand will affect inventory levels and safety stock thresholds. Aligni also displays drop dead order dates for parts on the same screen. This helps companies better plan and order materials to make sure upcoming builds never stock out.
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Tools to Help Get Your Ready for Future Needs
Aligni’s demand planning tools help organizations develop long term estimations of part and material needs. Having the ability to look further into the future helps purchasing teams become more proactive in managing inventory requirements and provides the knowledge to negotiate better terms from larger and more consistent ordering.
Aligni’s Flow Demand tool projects future needs by using sales expectations and current run rates. Flow demand offers lifecycle estimation over user defined periods. These periods can be configured to more accurately forecast ramp-up and growth stages, sustained production periods, and phase-out. Flow Demand provides a more nuanced, real-world modeling of future product demand than straight line estimation. Being able to model more closely real-world inventory needs helps production and purchasing teams balance build requirements over longer time periods to find more efficiencies.
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