Planning is the one of the key components of effective supply chain management. Supply chain planning software offers a complete solution for joint strategic, tactical, and operational planning, helping your company coordinate demand and supply. With this software sales and operations planning are integrated with implementation, making it possible to adjust to unexpected events in real time.

 Benefits of supply chain planning software are:

• Optimize supply chain networks; rationalize business combinations; handle crisis situations; plan tactical sourcing, pre-builds, or capacity allocations.
• Predict and plan future demand and safety stock with statistical and collaborative forecasting processes.
• Create optimal raw material sourcing, manufacturing, vehicle loading, and deployment plans across all sites.
• Rapidly calculate order delivery dates based on real-world capabilities and constraints of the multi-site enterprise.
• Create detailed, constraint-based factory production schedules and material plans.

 Supply chain simulation software is a computer model of a supply chain network that behaves in a manner alike to the actual network, enabling forecast of future supply chain metrics and performance. Some supply chain simulation software also allow simulation component to be integrated directly with your other planning system components and ERP systems,

 Supply Chain software is software with system of facilities and distribution options that executes the functions of procurement of materials; alteration of this material into intermediate and finished products; supply chain software also looks after the distribution of these finished products to customers.