SOLUTIONS
Demand Driven Material Planning
Aligns material supply with
forecasted manufacturing/sales needs
PartnerLinQ's Demand Driven Material Planning (DDMP) is the operational solution that bridges commercial commitments with supply chain reality. It directly aligns upstream production and supply availability with customer and distributor demand signals, ensuring you have the right materials to fulfill wholesale orders without carrying excessive inventory.
PartnerLinQ provides complete ecosystem that delivers on this vision through four core capability pillars:
End-to-End
Connectivity
Seamlessly link confirmed wholesale demand signals to granular operational features like material management and supplier capacity.
Unified Data
Model
Demand signals, material requirements, and supply constraints reside on a single platform, eliminating the "siloed financial vs operational planning" challenge.
AI-Driven
Intelligence
Leverage ML to run supply/demand scenario comparisons across versions and dynamically calculate the impact of changing wholesale orders on buffer health.
Composability & Flexibility
The modular architecture allows the solution to be easily configured to reflect complex multi-echelon supply network structures.
Features & Capabilities
PartnerLinQ provides advanced tools to model complex supply networks, strategically position inventory, and execute a truly demand-driven material flow for your wholesale business.
Multi-Echelon Planning: Enables visibility and control over inventory and material buffers across the entire supply network—from raw material suppliers to in-house production and regional distribution centers.
Real-Time Demand Sensing: Uses real-time data from customer orders, EDI feeds, and marketplace signals to power DDMP, ensuring material orders are generated based on actual demand, not static forecasts.
Strategic Buffer Positioning: Defines and manages material buffer positioning at strategic points (decoupling points) to protect the flow of high-demand and high-variability components required for wholesale production.
Capacity Constraint Planning: Planning models incorporate hard capacity constraints across factories, suppliers, and logistics to generate achievable production schedules and material procurement plans.
Wholesale Order Alignment: Directly translates confirmed wholesale orders into material requirements, allowing brands to track Forecast Accuracy (Sell-in vs Material Supply).
Supply Disruption Simulation: Simulate scenarios such as supply disruptions (e.g., supplier delay) and instantly analyze the impact on production capacity, customer service levels, and buffer health.
Buffer Health Management: Monitors and reports on Buffer Compliance % and buffer utilization, guiding planners on where to adjust buffer levels for optimal performance.
Agile Procurement: Automated alerts and prioritized actions enable agile material procurement that accelerates or decelerates buying based on shifts in demand signals.
Technology
A solution's technology vision must align with your organization’s future aspirations. PartnerLinQ’s modern, composable architecture ensures a planning solution that is not only powerful today but will scale to meet your evolving needs.
Cloud-Native & Multi-Cloud Architecture: Our scalable, cloud-native architecture is built for demand planning cycles, ensuring fast processing and seamless performance. We support multi-cloud environments, providing the flexibility to align with your organization’s cloud strategy.
Composability: Built on an API-first and microservices architecture, our platform provides the extensibility and flexibility to adapt to your unique needs, helping you achieve a truly composable enterprise.
Intelligent Data Applications Framework: Our framework allows you to easily onboard and enrich external data sets and factors with AI-based predictions, creating a richer input signal for your demand planning process and accelerating the evolution of your digital intelligence with ease.
Trading Partner Network: Our native integration with your trading partner network allows for real-time data capture, ensuring your plans are always informed by the most current market signals.
Seamless Data Flow: Our bi-directional integration capabilities with ERP, POS, Online Commerce, and WMS systems ensure a continuous flow of demand data for a single source of truth.
Extensive Prebuilt Adapters: We offer prebuilt, composable integration adapters for over 80 enterprise application platforms, including SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Dynamics Business Central, Manhattan Active Omni and Salesforce.
Custom Algorithm & Model Development: The platform provides a unified environment for in-house development of custom algorithms and models, giving your teams the tools to continuously evolve the solution.
Industry Knowledge Graph and Data Models: ParnterLinQ’s industry data models and supply chain knowledge graph instantly enable out of the box reporting, search and planning capabilities to a whole new level of sophistication and extensibility.
Third-Party Analytic Integration: Easily integrate third-party analytics and leverage public APIs to expand the planning models and connect with external data sources.
User Experience
DDMP provides a visual, exception-driven dashboard that turns complex multi-echelon planning into simple, prioritized actions for procurement and production teams.
Visual Buffer Status: Intuitive visualization of buffer health (e.g., color-coded zones: green, yellow, red) across all decoupling points, enabling planners to manage by exception.
Prioritized Action Queue: Generates a prioritized list of material orders and production actions needed to restore Buffer Compliance % and maintain target service levels.
Scenario Sandbox: Dedicated environment to quickly simulate scenarios (e.g., "What if key customer promotion spikes demand by 20%?") and instantly see the required change in material procurement.
Generative AI Risk Narratives: GenAI provides context for material alerts (e.g., "Buffer for material X is in the red zone due to an un-mitigated 4-week delay from Supplier Y. Production capacity is at risk of falling below Service Level % to Customers").
Capacity Modeling Visuals: Visual tools show how proposed material orders or production runs affect the current Production Utilization % and highlight where resource bottlenecks exist.
Implementation Advantage
DDMP implementation focuses on modeling the client's unique multi-echelon supply network and configuring buffer logic based on lead times and variability.
Supply Network Mapping: Rapid configuration and modeling of the entire multi-echelon supply chain, including factories, suppliers, and logistics lead times.
KPI Alignment: Implementation focuses on establishing clear tracking for key metrics, including Inventory Carrying Cost Reduction % and Service Level % to Customers, to measure success immediately.
Capacity Constraint Integration: Seamless integration of manufacturing and supplier capacity data to enable accurate constraint modeling and realistic production planning.
Buffer Logic Configuration: Expert guidance to define and implement the rules for strategic buffer positioning and sizing, ensuring alignment with service goals and cost reduction targets.
End Result & Business Benefit
PartnerLinQ’s DDMP solution delivers operational resilience and financial control by synchronizing material flow directly with customer demand.
Superior Service Levels: Achieve higher Service Level % to Customers by ensuring necessary materials are available when needed, avoiding stockouts driven by the bullwhip effect.
Resilience & Agility: The ability to simulate scenarios allows the brand to proactively navigate supply disruptions and rapid demand changes, securing a high Forecast Accuracy (Sell-in vs Material Supply).
Optimized Production: Maximizes Production Utilization % by ensuring that manufacturing capacity is never starved for materials, leading to more efficient operations.
Reduced Inventory Cost: Drives significant Inventory Carrying Cost Reduction % by replacing large, static safety stocks with strategically sized, dynamically managed buffers.
Pricing Model
PartnerLinQ provides overall business value and industry-specific intelligent planning technology and solutions for both current and future needs. We offer a simplified pricing model that provides predictability and transparency, empowering your business to invest with confidence.
Tiered, Usage-Based Pricing: Our model is simple and transparent. You only pay for the tier that matches your actual usage each month, so you are only ever paying for what you use.
Unified & Transparent Cost: Our unified pricing covers all core capabilities—including integration, data processing, the planning applications, and the embedded AI—eliminating hidden costs.
Simplified Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): By consolidating all key functions into a single, usage-based model, we eliminate the hidden costs of managing multiple vendors and disparate systems, ensuring your investment delivers both immediate and sustainable business value.
PartnerLinQ gives you the precision, agility, and control to turn seasonal volatility into a competitive advantage.
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