The solution story of frePPLe
FrePPLe is an Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) solution designed to intelligently assist planners in their decision-making.
It replaces planning spreadsheets with a powerful toolkit: advanced algorithms, visibility on bottlenecks and shortages, what-if simulations...
About
FrePPLe has offices in Belgium and France. FrePPLe
is developed by a small team of seasoned supply chain planning veterans, and
has been on the market since 2015. The Odoo integration, introduced in 2018,
serves over 40% of the frePPLe customer base.
What is your solution? What can it do?
FrePPLe is an Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) solution designed to intelligently assist planners in their decision-making.
It delivers a rich feature set capable of supporting even the most complex planning processes:
- Demand forecasting
Intelligent analysis of historical sales data provides accurate predictions of future demand.
- Inventory planning
Correctly dimension the min-max reordering rules of raw materials and end items.
- Production planning
An advanced planning algorithm analyzes the demand and supply across the supply chain, and intelligently allocates material and capacity to the right demands.
- Two-way integration with Odoo.
All master data are maintained in Odoo, and are automatically synced with frePPLe. Plan results are published back to Odoo in the form of new purchase orders, new manufacturing orders, and rescheduled work orders.
- What-if scenario planning
Easily evaluate different versions of your plan.
- Intelligent capable-to-promise delivery date quoting
Calculate expected delivery dates for new sales orders based on actual material availability and capacity constraints.
- Aligns with modern production planning methodologies
DDMRP, theory of constraints, and lean manufacturing.
Business benefits
An efficient planning process is crucial for corporate success and has a direct impact on profitability.
Key benefits include:
- Improved planner productivity.
Reduce the time wasted in copy-pasting Excel spreadsheets. - Improved on-time delivery of
customer orders.
Correctly understand the constraints causing delays. - Reduced inventories.
Keep the right amount of inventory of the right items at the right place. - Reduced stockouts.
- Improved work center utilization.
Anticipate and react to upcoming material or capacity bottlenecks. - Accurately quote delivery dates for new sales orders.
Compute the delivery date of new sales orders dynamically based on the actual availability of material and capacity, rather than fixed lead time.
