Open source supply chain planning software

Overview and introduction

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FrePPLe – what? who?

FrePPLe Leading open source supply chain planning software

Ranked #1 in google searches for free & open source software in this domain

About 15.000 downloads per year Company

Based out in Brussels (Belgium) & Paris (France) Team with an average of 15 years of experience

implementing production planning and supply chain optimization solutions

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FrePPLe – who are our customers ?

A contractor for the US military uses frePPLe to generate a sales forecast and inventory plans. Company size: > 10.000

A global producer of electrical motors and generators uses frePPLe to support their long term S&OP planning process.Company size: > 10.000

An middle-eastern distribution chain for technical supplies uses frePPLe to forecast demand, plan inventory levels, and generate replenishments.

An Italian/Israeli producer of disposable medical devicesuses frePPLe to plan and schedules its plants of plastic molding and assembly machines.

A US manufacturer of glassware uses frePPLe to compute and review sales forecasts.

A French government agency is using frePPLe to generate a short term schedule of their staff.

A Belgian jobshop producing customized, high-end kitchens to household uses frePPLe to generate production orders.

… and an active community of users of the open source community edition

Very diverse in terms of geography, industry and company size

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FrePPLe

FrePPLe is an Advanced Planning and Scheduling tool (APS)

Organizing future activities Short term scheduling Mid-term planning

Integrates with other business applications

A Business Intelligence solution with powerful reporting on past performance

An Enterprise Resource Planning system controlling all transactions

An Manufacturing Execution System capturing ongoing activity on the shop floor

NOW FUTURE

PAST

APSERP MES

BI

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Planning process maturity model

No formal process exists

Ad hoc actions with short term and limited visibility

Isolated planning process

Manual planning

Plan is not up to date

Incomplete data (typically excel)

Limited plan visibility

Continuous firefighting

Consistent and complete planning process

Consistent data

Plan shared within the organization

Planning process becomes an asset

Focus on KPI improvement

Planning process is competitive advantage

Undisciplined

ReactiveProactive

Optimized

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Value proposition

FrePPLe brings your planning process to a new maturity level

Direct impact on business and fast ROI Improved planner productivity Reduced lead-times Reduced inventory Reduced work in progress Improved delivery date accuracy Improved asset utilization Agile response to market demand

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Processes

Demand Forecasting

Forecasting Netting

Inventory Planning

Production Planning

Demand Forecasting Computes and

manually review your forecast

Forecast Netting Subtracts the actual orders

from the forecast

Inventory Planning Calculates your safety stock

and reorder quantities

Production Planning Creates supply plans that are

constrained by lead time, material availability and capacity

Output Generates purchase orders,

distribution orders and manufacturing ordersfor ERP

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Demand forecasting

Forecasting algorithm analyzes the demand history and generates a baseline forecast for the future Implements a pick-best choice among different

forecast methods to select the one giving the lowest forecast error:

Intermittent Constant Trend Seasonal & trend Moving average

Users adjust the forecast: Override computed

forecast Correct outliers from the

demand history Force the forecast method

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Forecast netting

Net open sales orders from forecast Short term demand consists primarily of customer

sales orders. Longer term demand consists primarily of sales

forecast The forecast consumption

logic reconciles both into a total demand signal thatis consistent and complete across the complete horizon

Gross forecast: 100 Orders already received: 20

> Net forecast: 80

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Inventory planning

Compute safety stock and reorder quantity, using of the following methods:

Automatic: Economic order quantity

- Wilson formula Safety stock calculated

for desired service level Quantity:

Fixed quantity Period of cover:

Expressed as periods of forecasted demand

Users can override the values per period

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Production planning

FrePPLe models the bill of distribution, bill of material, resources, and suppliers for the raw materials

Generates constrained or unconstrained plans Interactive Gantt chart to adjust the proposed plan

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Data integration

InventorySales ordersOpen manufacturing ordersOpen purchase ordersOpen distribution orders

Proposed new purchase ordersProposed new manufacturing ordersProposed new distribution orders

LocationsItemsSuppliersResourcesCustomersBills of materialBills of distribution

Flexible integration capabilities Excel upload & download CSV upload & download Standard connectors for

Web service (REST API) Database-level integration

IN

OUT

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Editions

- Open source under AGPL license

- Full source code provided

- Mailing list as support

- Cloud service- Extra functionality and

professional support- Pricing by module and

by number of planned item-locations

- On premise installation- Extra functionality and

professional support- Pricing by module and

by number of planned item-locations

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Try it out yourself

Online demos can be accessed at:

https://manufacturing.frepple.comhttps://distribution.frepple.com

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