DynaSys - Glossary

DP: Demand Planning

DIP-PP: Distribution Planning - Production Planning

BW: Business Warehouse

BU: Business Unit

GBU: Global Business Unit

Workflow: sequence of many activities aligned

Datafield: data type, ex: sales requirements, initial inventory…

A screen: a window inside a screen (exemple: "Requirement by Ship to" is a view in the tab named DRP")

Workshop: place where goods are manufactured

Production sites: This is where production happens, or more generally stock inputs. It may correspond to a plant, a supplier, a warehouse, to which purchased items are delivered.

Shipping sites: These are sites sending out items. Typically, they are plants, warehouses or intermediate distribution centers.

Receiving sites: These are sites liable to receive items, like customer warehouses or distribution centers.

Selling sites: These sites operate direct sale activity, i.e., locations where customer requirements are debited from the inventory.

Forecast: what it is planned to be made

To kill a forecast: cancel actual production and leave it as it is at the moment

Shortage: forecast not fulfilled after a given delay

Statistical forecast: theoretical forecast based on sales history + demand planners’ inputs,

Unconstrained forecast: forecast without any logistical / production constraints (comes out from DP)

Constrained demand: new forecast after taking into account production constraints (comes out from DiPPP)

Customer forecast: from the customer himself

Sales team forecast: commercials inputs, usually with the web access

Demand Review: it’s the final step of the forecast validation.

Final forecast: it’s always the last forecast from this priority list below

Forecast override: forecast priority onto another

Invoice forecast: forecast billed

Collaborative input of forecasts

Shipto: customer / receiver

Ship to KA: group of Shipto (ex : Michelin is a ShiptoKA and Michelin France= Shipto, Michelin Poland= Shipto)

DC: distribution channel

DFU: Demand Forecast Unit (used in DP) it is the smallest demand management unit which is Material x Shipto@DC combination = Material@shipto@DC in DynaSys

SKU: Stock Keeping Unit (used DIP-PP) = Material@site in DynaSys

DFU & SKU refer to a specific item stored at a specific location

Batch Size (or incremental quantity): production must be a multiple of this quantity.

Sourcing: where products are supplied from

Monosourcing: a site is supplied by one location

Multisourcing: a site can be supplied by more location (ex: from St-Fons & Collonges)

NIOP: Network Inventory & Optimization Planning: calculates the optimum sourcing rule, which is then used in the DiP to determine the plan

Authorized flow: is often referred to as the assignment table, that is, who must send what goods to a given site.

Assignment %: who must send how much percentage of what goods to a given site.

Approval (homologation): To substitute a product by the same one but just not produced at the same site

DRP: Distribution Requirement Planning = allocating the demand from the distribution sites to the production sites. This calculation is cascaded by going upstream the distribution network

S&OP: Sales & Operation Planning = SOIP (I for inventory) = it covers demand management, and mid-term distribution and production planning (3-18 months horizon).

KPI: Key Performance Indicators

Reporting: to report results and data and major information, usually on a dashboard with KPI

Independant Requirement

Sales Requirement: this is the direct requirement for sale to a customer. The sold item disappears from the inventory.

Shipping Requirement: this is the requirement for shipping to another site. It is indirect because the sale will not be made on the site in question but rather downstream in the logistic network.

Gross Requirement: is the sum of Independent Requirement and Dependent Requirement

Net Requirement: is achieved by Gross Requirements corrected by taking into account inventories (Initial inventory, safety stock variation, etc …)  This is the minimum theoretical quantity to be received to meeting the gross requirements

Receipt Requirement: it complies with all the technical constraints

ETA: estimated time arrival = Customer view

ETD: estimated time departure = Shipper view

Offset: between ETA & INVOICE

Vocabulary following ETA or ETD

Merchandise release in ETA:

-        Actual: sent & received

-        In Transit: sent but not received yet (mainly used in ETA)

In ETD:

Actual shipped: in transit = actual received following the point of view : client= actual received, supplier= actual shipped 

Bulk: amount of production (volume)

Lead time: time from the moment the customer places an order (the moment the supplier learns of the requirement) to the moment it is ready for delivery + the time required to ship the parts from the supplier

SOB: sales of order book: sales orders ventilated by customer requested date in the future.

Netting: net requirements calculation: difference between unconstrained demand and real amount made = Unconstrained demand – actuals – in transit

RTP: Ready To Plan: it is a setup pre-configured, ready to use data set, implementing good practices and standardized indicators. It allows a production plan to be calculated complying with the capacities of all resources.

DoS: days of supply: cover stock converted into duration that says how long you can hold with that stock

BOM: A Bill Of Material is applied to a production plan (with finite or infinite capacity, no matter) to calculate a dependent requirement.

Shippings met: packages delivered

Shippings met on time: packages delivered on time

Shippings met late: delay authorized for a delivery, once this delay is exceeded = shortage

Shippings not met: packages not delivered

Shipped not billed: delivery that was received and is not billed yet

External sales: sales into the same zone

Intersite: trades between sites from the same continent (ex: sites at Livorno and Collonges)

Intercos: products shipped from a zone to another

Direct intercos: direct shipment to the client in another zone

Indirect intercos: indirect shipments to the client in another zone (goes to a warehouse then to the client’s)

Backorder: orders that can’t be fulfilled right now but still taken so we can fulfill them later

Deployment Strategy:

Pull: the requirement is shipped as late as possible, that is during its requirement period

Push: the requirement is shipped as soon as possible, that is during its production period

Push beyond requirement: the requirement is shipped as soon as possible, including excess production

Forced Deployment:

Minimum receipt plan taken into account both by DRP calculation and deployment calculation, which enables to specify a minimum amount to be deployed, and to leave it up to DynaSys DSCP to calculate what remains.

Maximum distribution quantity data field which can be useful for limiting deployment, on the other hand.