Every wholesale distribution business needs its people pulling same direction. This is true for a single warehouse or a global network of companies. And for your people to work well, they need to know what’s going on.
Planner View is adaptable PC software that grabs data from within your organization and presents it in different ways to different people according to role. It allows them to plan their workload and resources more effectively.
For example, people in the warehouse can use Planner View to see a graph of purchase orders. This tells them what deliveries to expect, together with weights and volumes. This allows them to plan the day ahead. If heavy items are expected they can book forklifts. Or they might clear storage space in anticipation of bulky products.
Planner view provides smooth running of your business, spotting bottlenecks or potential shortages in supply and sorting them out before they become a problem.
Integration with other planning software
Because Planner View is integrated within the Enterprise 6.0 suite, it can work with a range of other modules. You can forecast demand using Demand Planning, or plan your sales activities using Sales and Operations Planning. Planner View gives you a variety of intuitive ways to aid and speed understanding.
- Browser view enables you to create web or intranet pages
- Pivot view is like a spreadsheet and enables you to export to Excel or convert data into a graph.
- Calendar view enables you to see workloads or capacities across time.
- Collection enables allows you to pick a component and see the data that relates to it from different sources (sales info, customers, delivery schedules, for example).
- Detail view enables you to drill into the information you hold.
- Gantt view enables you to plan tasks to a calendar and see the interdependency of different activities.
- Task list view enables someone to see the tasks allocated to them, or to other resources.
All these can be customized but they also work great in their default mode.
Helping people in their different roles
As well as helping warehouse people, Planner View can be used:
- For sales order management and customer relations
- To manage cash flow
- To plan manufacture and assembly
- For project management
- To handle purchase orders and procurement
- For planning service management.