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Capacity Planning Software

A Purpose-Built Technological Solution
Balancing Your Supply and Demand.

Avercast’s capacity planning software is comprehensive solution that enables you to manage all aspects of your business needs. Meet all future consumer demands, plan for capacity changes, effectively outsource production and adjust shifts as needed. Manage operations as effectively as possible.

What Is Rough-Cut Capacity Planning Software?

What is the one thing you inquire about before taking up a new project or investing in new equipment?

Do we have the capacity, both in terms of space and in terms of humans, i.e., do you have adequate numbers of humans working on the machine or completing the project? One of the processes or technique supply chain companies use to find out about the future capacity requirement is called
Rough-cut Capacity Planning.

To understand capacities precisely and optimize them, numerous companies across the world use Rough-cut Capacity Planning Software. It helps you plan how to utilize your capacity resources best strategically.

Avercast’s capacity management software allows you to make necessary adjustments to account for constant changes in demand and inventory levels and for manufacturing needs, making it the best capacity planning tool.

Key Features of Avercast's Rough-Cut Capacity Planning software

Identification and elimination of hindrances

Capacity management software allows you to determine issues or bottlenecks that are affecting your supply chain process and solve the problems with proper logic. The software has various Capacity planning tools, providing an alternative solution to eliminating bottlenecks.

Simple and intuitive interface

Once a business starts using software, they don’t want to get into the hassle of updating and manual feeding. Our Capacity Planning Solutions is easy to use, agile, and needs no special training to operate and encourages you to plan long-term goals and business development.

Reporting made easy

Our Capacity management software makes your reporting easy and on the go. Backed up by Microsoft’s SQL, the software facilitates easy reporting across the business. Along with easy reporting, it enables you to share the reports with stakeholders effortlessly, making the entire process less time-consuming.

Hassle-free Integration

Our Rough-cut Capacity Planning solution integrates with any system flawlessly. The integration ensures that you do not have to feed in data manually, i.e., the software automatically fetches data from ERPs (Enterprise Resource Planning). You can plan your inventory better with accurate capacity planning tools.

The “what-if” simulation

Our software enables you to test and simulate various situations based on market trends and seasons. That means you can prepare for the worst outcomes while hoping for the best, and our Capacity Planning Solutions will help you devise the test and be ready for whatever may come.

Alerts for Required Actions

The software is designed to reduce the efforts needed to operate, and one key thing that we boast about resolving is alerts. You cannot go into the lengthy spreadsheets daily to identify whether any action is required. Our software rings you when you need to act.

Resolve resource planning challenges
with Capacity Management Software

Dwelling on the purpose of future resource planning is crucial. You must decide what challenges or issues you need to tackle in the capacity planning process. If planned and used well, capacity planning can ensure that you have the precise number of optimal resource allocation at the time when it matters most.

It is vital to note that you will not achieve the efficiency you are looking for in your operations without a capacity planning process.
The reason could be overburdening resources, underutilized resources, or no resources when required. Thus, it is critical to employ capacity management software.

Here are some other challenges that our software solves:

Solving the potential internal conflict

What to prioritize and why

Forecasting resources

Solving the potential internal conflict

What to prioritize and why

Forecasting resources

The reliable benefits of Capacity Planning Software

Take data-enabled decisions

Will you be able to complete the project or not? Do you have the resource capacity planning tools to finish within the deadline? Be it any capacity-related questions; our capacity management tools has a logical answer supported by your data.

Streamline supply chain and enhance ROI

The supply chain is a lengthy process, and that is why it is more than likely to fall apart for distinct reasons, which could cost you millions of dollars. Thus, capacity management assists you with streamlining and reducing expenses.

Use it separately or integrate it

One of the critical benefits that Avercast’s Rough-cut Capacity Planning Software provides to its clients is that they can use the software standalone or can integrate it with other software and ERPs and lets the software do its work automatically.

Utilize your resources efficiently

Capacity Planning tools enables you to keep supervising your resource management periodically. Doing so allows you to get a bird’s eye view of all your resources and use them, accordingly, increasing their efficiency. Maximum visibility ensures that you can hire novel resources.

Balances Demand and Supply Capacity

Finding a balance between your supply capacity and customers’ demand is the sweet spot where every company thrives. Your expenses are minimized, and your revenues get maximized. Our capacity management tool assists you in finding the balance and planning for the demand.

Customized solution

Simple and straight, yet so intriguing. Yes, we provide solutions based on our client’s demands, making us the best. The team of supply chain experts and engineers make sure that they deliver software that not only minimizes clients’ efforts but also saves their pennies.

Why choose Avercast’s Capacity Planning Software?

Avercast Rough-cut Capacity Planning Software provides a platform for manufacturers to oversee production planning effectively. Users will increase revenue, productivity, and overall ROI with a practical approach to managing production and orders—balance production demand against manufacturing constraints to identify bottlenecks in production
before problems arise.

Our software includes advanced planning and forecasting algorithms and provides honest time reporting and analytics, which quickly integrate with the software you use. Avercast’s software for Rough-cut capacity planning has 250+ advanced algorithms which help you accurately.

Avercast’s capacity planning solutions includes advanced planning and forecasting algorithms and provides honest time reporting and analytics, which quickly integrate with the software you use.

Industries relying on
Capacity Planning Software

The one thing that encourages and enhances overall productivity is capacity planning. It is effective and has enabled numerous businesses to make the most of their resources available. So, what is the solution? Software for Capacity Planning.

The benefits of having a streamlined capacity planning process are tremendous; it balances your supply and manufacturing capacity with the customer’s demand. Avercast has the most accurate system available.

Currently, various brands across the world uses the manufacturing capacity planning tools, Industries currently using our software include consumer Retail, Finance, FMCG, Manufacturing, etc.

Following are the vital sectors that use Rough-cut Capacity Planning Software to its full potential:

Production & Manufacturing

Logistics

Retail

Finance

Production & Manufacturing

Logistics

Retail

Finance

Customer Reviews

"Avercast has freed up millions of dollars in inventory and allowed us to justify a new hire"
Paul Feorene Manager - Logistics, & Parts Management

"They used one sheet per brand... [and] we had to aggregate everything. We would pretty much use the historic numbers to try and project everything. Avercast allowed us to do more."
Martin Toh Executive Vice President of Operations

"One of the great things Avercast did [was give] us the opportunity to take as many SKUs as we wanted and give them historical data and run the forecast in the system and see what that output was."
Josh Rocha Supply Chain Manager

"With Avercast we are able to combine both forecasting and supply planning and toggle between them easily. With the visibility gained from Avercast, our forecast accuracy has improved."
Erica Davis Director of Planning

"As part of a deal with General Motors, Cassidy is responsible for ensuring 50 GM plants weekly forecast data is automatically interfaced into Avercast to assist in executing their orders."
Cassidy Laudadio Forecasting Specialist

"First, the forecasting software has helped us tremendously. In addition, the visibility into our current inventory hold has helped us very much. Without Avercast I don’t know how I would find out how much inventory I have and what I am going to end at."
Nicolette Molina Senior Supply-Chain Analyst

"[OOLY] was always out of stock, couldn’t deliver, and always ship backorders [where] customers had to wait forever to get their [orders].” “Within a year, we corrected our image in the marketplace. […] We were able to… optimize our [inventory turns]."
Matt Peters VP of Operations

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Capacity Planning?

Capacity Planning is a process of determining the capacity of your resources so that you can strike a balance between your supply capabilities and customers’ demand. After all, that is the larger game. Regarding product management, capacity is termed as the potential of a resource, i.e., the amount of work that can be done in a period.

What are the types of Capacity Planning?

The types of capacity planning differ from industry to industry. For manufacturing, there are three types of Capacity planning:

Workforce Capacity Planning: The planning done to ensure that you have enough human resources to complete the task and meet the final goals.
Equipment or Tool Capacity Planning: This type of planning is done to ensure that you have equipment in good condition and abundance to fulfill your goal.
Product Capacity Planning: It is essential to ensure you have enough products in stock to fulfill demand. Also, it is performed for raw materials, so you never fall short during manufacturing.

Why is Rough-Cut Capacity Planning important?

Not just plan to fulfill near demand, but to achieve bigger goals. Due to the same motto, various businesses across industries use Rough-cut Capacity Planning. Companies use RCCP techniques to ensure they do not store or release materials in excess. Along with multiple benefits, it also supports a master production schedule or MSP.

What are the three methods of Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP)?

The three methods of Rough-cut Capacity Planning are:

CPOF or Capacity Planning Using Overall Factors: It is an easy and hasty way to forecast your capacity requirements and uses overall sales volume and product mix to calculate your needs.
Capacity Bills: It is also known as Capacity Planning Using Capacity factors (CPCF). It uses factors like capacity expenses, capacity releases, and capacity units to forecast needs. This method is more accurate than CPOF.
Resource profiles: This method tells you in which month you need resources and in what quantity. It gives more precise estimates than capacity bills.

Capacity Planning Software

What Is Rough-Cut Capacity Planning Software?

Key Features of Avercast's Rough-Cut Capacity Planning software