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1. Ability to create product family plans matched sets and complimentary product build plans and alternatives (17 product(s) support this feature)
2. Assign fulfillment activities production or pulls from finished goods to specific sites and plants based on costs availability or specific abilities to serve markets and geographies (17 product(s) support this feature)
3. Collaboration between planning entities including rating and the ability to view various input plans that were forecast versus actual from marketing sales manufacturing and channels (19 product(s) support this feature)
4. Compare plan versus actual to identify sales and supply risks (19 product(s) support this feature)
5. Create a multiple site network or schematic and be able to allocate nodes products or other supply chain attributes to the nodes (18 product(s) support this feature)
6. Create and push out a worldwide product availability plan for sales programs and catalogues (18 product(s) support this feature)
7. Create and store multiple plan scenarios based on various business assumptions (19 product(s) support this feature)
8. Determine cost-pricing for contracted capacity (15 product(s) support this feature)
9. Develop supply strategies and plans that ensure operational readiness of the supply pipeline and provide synchronization of plans across the supplies (17 product(s) support this feature)
10. Evaluate achievement of marketing assumptions (18 product(s) support this feature)
11. Evaluate internal and external site capacity based on long-term demand market and economic data (20 product(s) support this feature)
12. Evaluate long-term capacity capabilities by nodes and work centers when plants lines and equipment come on-line (19 product(s) support this feature)
13. Evaluate shortage risks critical parts potential supplier allocations and alternative supply (18 product(s) support this feature)
14. Evaluate supply plans by costs profit contribution responsiveness cycle time goals return on asset ROA return on invested capital and return on investment ROI (17 product(s) support this feature)
15. Identify substitute parts and costs (18 product(s) support this feature)
16. Integrate with strategic sourcing module to appropriate suppliers (16 product(s) support this feature)
17. Load sales and marketing plans and simulate readiness or supply position for fulfillment plans (21 product(s) support this feature)
18. Risk Management reporting (15 product(s) support this feature)
19. Simulate and analyze investment trade-offs for plants and equipment in terms of buying outsourcing and delaying market presence (14 product(s) support this feature)
20. Simulate and trade-off by achievement of sales plan best cost highest profit support of highest priority customers completions of specific corporate goals and manual entries to create a constrained feasible forecast (20 product(s) support this feature)
21. Simulate explode plan create material and capacity requirements by individual sites and nodes internal and external (19 product(s) support this feature)
22. Simulate outbound positioning of finished goods and allocate by node channel customer and distribution site (19 product(s) support this feature)
23. Simulate various supply positions by postponement strategies safety stock positions and customer vendor managed inventory-VMI consumption rates (18 product(s) support this feature)
24. Visibility to pipeline in-stock inventories at finished goods work in progress WIP and raw material levels (19 product(s) support this feature)