Intuitive ERP

As of 2021, Intuitive ERP is now known as Aptean Industrial ERP

Capable to Promise Module

Promise Deliveries

The availability of items in your system is an important piece of information that is necessary for planning future production and making sales commitments. The Intuitive ERP capable to promise (CTP) functionality answers the questions: ​“How much can I promise to a new demand on any day, creating and actually planning for this demand?”

CTP can be called from within a sales order, quote, or a number of other locations for immediate access to CTP information. When utilizing CTP from within a sales order, each delivery can have an immediate feasibility test run, telling the user whether the materials can be shipped on the date requested, and if not, when those materials can be shipped. The user can save the plan immediately and commit that order with no extra steps.

While available to promise (ATP) functionality just interrogates and analyzes the current production plan, CTP is actually an advanced planning process that can generate new planned orders. If, through ATP, you are unable to find sufficient inventory to cover a new demand, CTP can then be invoked to take the next step. CTP provides the ability to determine whether the new demand can be filled by creating additional production and/or purchase orders. And, CTP calculates the earliest feasible date that this new production could be completed and your demand covered. CTP informs you of the new planned orders that would be required (what items need to be produced and/or purchased, order start and end dates, quantities, etc.) and allows you to then decide if those orders should be added to the production schedule.

Forecasting Module

Intuitive Forecasting provides extended capabilities in forecast generation that allow you to: 

• Improve the accuracy of your forecasts 
• Save time and money 
• Improve planning
• Cut inventory costs 
• Decrease stockouts

Intuitive Forecasting provides you with the ability to generate the forecasts based on your usage data and many different forecasting models. This data is then used by the Intuitive planning modules to generate your demand requirements based on this forecast. Complete analysis of forecast to actual is available in the Intuitive planning functions 

Intuitive Advanced Forecasting is easy to learn and easy to use. It does not require a background in statistics or forecasting. In fact, creating accurate forecasts is literally as easy as clicking a mouse. You provide the historic data, and the built-in expert system analyzes your data, selects the appropriate forecasting technique, and calculates the forecast. 

Alternatively, if you want to dictate the forecasting approach, Intuitive Forecasting provides a complete range of forecasting models and all of the diagnostic aids you need. Generating reports, viewing graphs, adding your judgment, saving to spreadsheets/text files/databases, collaborating with others, interfacing with your SCM, ERP or other planning system is all at your fingertips. 

Intuitive Forecasting supports multiple forecasting methodologies: 

• Exponential smoothing
• Box-Jenkins
• Low volume and intermittent demand models 
• Curve fitting
• Simple methods
• Dynamic regression
• Event models
• Multiple level models 
• Census X‑11 seasonal decomposition 
• Batch forecasting

Multiple Facility (Supply Works) Module

Intuitive Supplier Collaboration > SupplyWorks™

The Intuitive SupplyWorks system for multi-location supplier collaboration extends ERP functionality with supply chain management (SCM) features such as supply chain visibility, synchronization, automated replenishment, and performance measurements through a web-based supplier portal. 

Supplier Visibility

Web portal provides both buyers and suppliers with visibility of forecasts, order status, shipments (including ASN status), inventory levels, alert conditions, payment status.

Collaborative Supply Planning 

Two-way information exchange in reviewing demand as well as scheduling and confirming shipments in order to collaborate on replenishment.

Procurement Execution

Focus attention on strategic sourcing and other critical issues while freeing up professional time from low-value-added clerical tasks.

Alerts & Notifications 

Receive an alert when a problem needs attention allowing routine replenishment activities to occur automatically.

Multi-Location

Consolidate multiple locations of demand when sourcing to multiple locations of supply.

Automated Replenishment

Have at your disposal the industry’s broadest range of built-in replenishment algorithms, including min-max, consumption-based, MRP-planned, and wireless Kanban, to ensure an optimal ​“plan for every part.”

Supplier Performance Measurement 

Measure key performance variables for each supplier, including on-time deliveries, shipment accuracy, inventory metrics, and direct material spend analysis.

Visual Order Module

Visual Order Pegging 

The Intuitive ERP Visual Order Pegging Explorer provides an outstanding tool to visualize the status of a job at a single glance, or to see the effect a late-arriving materials delivery will have down the line. Visual Order Pegging allows you to trace up or down the production hierarchy to see the source/use relationships for items. Using Visual Order Pegging, you can trace upwards from a particular work order to see which sales orders are slated to receive the material being produced by that work order. Or, given a particular sales order, you will be able to trace down the pegging linkages to see the status of the various work orders and purchase orders that will cover this sales order. You can also see pegging by project to provide you with complete order status for all items in a project.

Visual Order Pegging includes graphical tools to show you at a glance where the problem areas are in your schedule. Any late orders will display in red, and on-time orders in green. For work orders, the complete status at each operation (routing step) is displayed, and those problem steps are also in red.