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Supply Chain Planning (SCP) Software

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Make disconnected inventory and production data a thing of the past with Plex Supply Chain Planning solutions. 

Face your toughest inventory challenges head-on with Plex Supply Chain Planning (SCP).
 

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Improve inventory management and reduce costs

With accurate forecasts and valuable insights from your supply chain data.

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Exceed market delivery expectations

By meeting customer satisfaction and contributing to your bottom line.

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Optimize the supply chain

With improved lead times, accurate inventory levels, and production efficiency.

What is Plex Supply Chain Planning Software?

Plex Supply Chain Planning is a cloud-based solution that connects to your Plex ERP, MES, and other data sources to provide integrated demand and supply planning. It gives real-time visibility into inventory, recommends optimal stock levels and replenishment, aligns cross-functional teams via consensus planning, and helps manufacturers meet on-time delivery goals while reducing waste and inefficiencies.

 
 

Plex Supply Chain Planning (SCP)

Take Control of Inventory

Leverage real-time visibility and transparency to optimize resources

Often manufacturing operations lack the insights needed to plan and forecast inventory with accuracy. This means when a rapid market or demand shift happens, the ability to remain agile and react with confidence isn't there.

With Plex Supply Planning software, real-time insights from across the business, coupled with inventory visibility help you act with confidence. All your Supply Chain Planning and production can happen in a single solution. With reduced waste and scrap.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Advance productivity levels and unite the business

Sales & Operations Planning is a cross-functional process that requires a seamless workflow. Without it, you're probably experiencing poor communication across your planning silos.

With Plex Supply Chain Planning tools, you benefit from integrated business planning that’s communicates bi-directionally with your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Manufacturing Execution System (MES), and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

Error-Proof Planning

Get real results by connecting planning and production

Deciphering mounds of data into a pragmatic plan isn't easy. You have to analyze the market, understand customer needs, know your production capacity constraints, and match demand to supply. It is a true marriage of the art of planning with the science of contextualized data.

Plex Supply Chain Planning takes the guesswork out of the data for more reliable forecasts and plans. Keep customers satisfied and contribute to your bottom line.

Aligned with extreme precision to the pillars of Smart Manufacturing.

Plex Supply Chain Planning (SCP) is designed to provide immediate value for your company, while preparing you for whatever tomorrow brings.

What is Smart Manufacturing?

Connect

Connect

Connect your business and remove data silos with cloud-based planning to unite people, processes, and supply chains.

Automate

Automate

Automate and remove the guesswork from planning with system-calculated recommendations for order requirements, safety stock, and lead times.

Track

Track

Track data, material usage, and related financial transactions to optimize your supply chain.

Analyze

Analyze

Analyze and evaluate what matters most to drive informed inventory decision-making.

 

Explore Plex Supply Chain Management’s Features
 

Supply Chain Planning and Collaboration

Maintain control and visibility with integrated and advanced planning, supply and demand planning, distribution requirements planning (DRP), and master scheduling.

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Customers & Sales Management

Cross functional, consensus-based plans lead to actionable master production schedules (MPS) that collect input from sales, marketing, engineering, and operations.

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Product & Program Management

Management of the details and progress of your programs and products provide status updates to customers, ensure that processes are consistent and repeatable, and drive cross-functional alignment between customer demand, engineering, and production.

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  • “We’re now at nearly 99 percent on-time and in-full deliveries, which is extremely rare. That’s thanks in large part to Plex—and it’s opening the door to new business.”

    Marcus Merchant - Director of IT, Olde Thompson
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  • "It’s so easy to identify the trends, ups and downs, potential issues, and to show other departments what’s going on so we can do something now.”

    Analucia Pandini - BirdRock Demand Planner Specialist
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  • "Plex Supply Chain Planning has got to be one of the easiest systems I’ve ever worked in as far as planning, so innovative and person-friendly.”

    Shelley Roberts - Coast Products Supply Chain Manager
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Supply Chain Planning Software FAQs

What is supply chain planning in manufacturing?

Supply chain planning in manufacturing is the process of aligning demand, inventory, production capacity and supply into a unified plan that supports on-time delivery and efficient operations. In modern manufacturing environments, SCP solutions use real-time data to improve forecasting accuracy, reduce excess inventory, and help organizations better balance supply with changing customer demand.

How does Plex Supply Chain Planning improve inventory accuracy?

Plex Supply Chain Planning improves inventory accuracy by connecting demand signals, production data and ERP information into a single planning environment. This gives manufacturers real-time visibility into inventory levels across the supply chain, helping reduce stockouts, minimize excess inventory and improve decision-making around replenishment and safety stock.

How does SCP connect ERP and MES systems?

Plex SCP integrates directly with Plex ERP and MES data to synchronize planning with real production conditions. This ensures that demand plans are grounded in actual shop floor capacity and execution data, rather than disconnected spreadsheets or static forecasts. The result is a more responsive, closed-loop planning process that aligns business planning with manufacturing reality.

What are the benefits of cloud-based supply chain planning software?

Cloud-based supply chain planning software provides manufacturers with real-time access to planning data, faster scenario modeling and easier collaboration across teams and sites. With Plex SCP, organizations can improve scalability, reduce reliance on manual planning tools and enable cross-functional visibility between supply chain, operations and finance teams—all within a secure, continuously updated cloud environment.

How does Plex SCP support demand and supply alignment?

Plex SCP helps align demand and supply by combining forecasting, inventory optimization and production planning into a single system. This allows manufacturers to evaluate constraints such as capacity, lead times and material availability while generating more reliable production plans. It also supports sales and operations planning (S&OP) processes by enabling consensus-driven decision-making across departments.

How does supply chain planning software improve decision-making?

Supply chain planning software improves decision-making by turning fragmented data into actionable insights. Plex SCP enables manufacturers to evaluate multiple planning scenarios, identify potential disruptions earlier and adjust inventory and production strategies proactively. This helps organizations move from reactive planning to a more predictive, data-driven approach to supply chain management.

Featured Resources

Birdrock Home Case Study | Plex by Rockwell
Birdrock Home Case Study | Plex by Rockwell
Case Studies
Case Studies
Birdrock Home Case Study | Plex by Rockwell
Discover how one Consumer Packaged Goods manufacturer improved inventory management and forecast accuracy with Plex Supply Chain Planning.
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The Plex Digital Interactive Experience | Plex by Rockwell
The Plex Digital Interactive Experience | Plex by Rockwell
Interactive Demo
Interactive Demo
The Plex Digital Interactive Experience | Plex by Rockwell
Click through this interactive demo of a simulated plant floor to learn how Plex helps manufacturers like you digitize and modernize operations.
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