Supply chain planning (SCP) is the forward-looking process of coordinating assets to optimize the delivery of goods, services and information from supplier to customer, balancing supply and demand. An SCP suite sits on top of a transactional system to provide planning, what-if scenario analysis capabilities and real-time demand commitments, considering constraints. Typical modules include:

Available/capable to promise

Sales and operations planning/integrated business planning

Collaborative planning (including forecasting and replenishment)

Vendor-managed inventory/direct point of sale

Event planning (promotion, life cycle)

Demand planning

Inventory planning

Production/factory planning and scheduling

Distribution planning (unconstrained, distribution requirements planning (DRP) and deployment)

Strategic network design

Inventory strategy optimization (simultaneous, multitiered)

Supply planning (optimized, DRP and deployment)

Production/multiplant capacity planning (master production scheduling, rough-cut capacity planning)