Baan Releases New Supply Chain Products
Steve McVey - November 8, 1999

Event Summary

Baan Co. recently announced the release of two additional modules in its Supply Chain Solutions suite: BaanSCS Planner 2.0 for factory planning, and BaanSCS Order Promising 1.0 for order acceptance. Planner 2.0 is intended to help companies profitably fulfill customer orders by planning and streamlining all activities. Enhancements over the previous versions include dynamic evaluation of alternate sources of material suppliers, alternate sourcing decisions based on due date or financial objectives, and improved inventory and logistics planning functionality. A new module, Order Promising 1.0, features available-to-promise (ATP) and capable-to-promise (CTP) checking, so called 'Profitable-to-Promise' checking, alternate order fulfillment, and order splitting. Both applications are designed to work with other Baan Supply Chain Solutions offerings including: Supply Chain Scheduler (Advanced Manufacturing Synchronization), Execution (Synchronized Manufacturing Execution), Demand Planner (Enterprise Demand Planning), Supply Chain Designer (Supply Chain Modeling & Optimization), and Supply Chain Coordinator (Tactical Supply Chain Planning), and the RoutePro (Vehicle Routing & Scheduling), and TransPro (Shipment Plan Optimization) families...