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Supply plans

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Supply plans are the initial and most important part of supply work in any organization or company. Experts in the field of economics and management have come to the conclusion that more than half of the plans have not been implemented only because of an incorrectly set task. In supply, plans should be given special attention, since weak planning makes it impossible to build a strong supply and supply system. The plans are dealt with at the initial stage of organizing the supply, and subsequently, they return to them constantly in order to compare the results, adjust the goals according to the situation. The supply plan is developed in order to streamline and expedite the further stages of the supply activity.

Before you draw up a supply plan in supply, you need to do a lot of preparatory work. In particular, you need reliable information about the real need for materials, goods, or raw materials. This data is provided to supply by production, sales network, company employees when it comes to internal purchases. Information about stocks and balances in warehouses is no less important. They will help predict a shortage or excess of something. Both of these circumstances are highly undesirable. You also need to define a timeline for each purchase. This requires information about the rate of consumption of a product or material, or the actual demand for it.

Often, plans, which are developed either by the manager, the commercial director, or the planning department, also include the work of identifying the suppliers with whom it’ll be most beneficial to cooperate. To do this, you will need to generate lots and send an offer to suppliers to take part in the tender. Based on the price lists and conditions received from them, you can choose the most promising partners. A separate part of planning is the supply budget. In it, the company provides for the allocation of funds for each delivery, payment of transportation costs. The budget is developed both for a long period, for example, for a year, and for short periods of time — for a week, a month, half a year. All other supply plans are certainly compared and correlated with this basic document — the supply budget.

In each large plan, intermediate points are highlighted, small goals should be given due attention, just because they make up the main large goal. Based on the plans, applications are formed, each stage of which must be monitored continuously at several levels. When operational planning is developed, possible unforeseen situations should also be considered, for example, the supplier's failure to meet the terms of the contract, the occurrence of insurmountable obstacles, natural disasters due to which the required material may be delayed on the way or not arrive at all. Therefore, there should in fact be several supply plans — the main one and a number of spare ones. Each is developed in detail, with a financial justification attached to each.

Who is the developer?

Akulov Nikolay

Expert and chief programmer who participated in the design and development of this software.

Date this page was reviewed:
2024-05-18

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This job seems to be quite difficult. And in practice, it can also be difficult if, for example, you follow the path of the old planning methods. It is possible to hire specialists who only deal with operational planning. But this comes with additional costs for their salaries. In addition, plans that are developed by hand on the basis of puffy volumes of written reports from production, sales, and other departments can at any time get into a banal unintentional mistake, which can lead to very negative consequences for the company. Plans that are developed correctly and correctly are always clear and simple, and supply requests are accurate. This creates an excellent basis for the timely and high-quality supply of the organization with everything necessary for its full-fledged activity. They can be compiled using modern information technologies, which make it possible to automate planning.

For these purposes, there are special programs, with the help of plans are not only developed, but also tracked at the stage of the supply. One of the most successful supply programs was developed by USU Software. Its software product help makes everything complex simple and obvious, draw up plans of any complexity for any purpose, optimize the work of the entire company through high-quality and professional control and accounting.

USU Software creates a single information space that unites warehouses, offices, production units, shops, accounting, sales departments with the sole purpose of speeding up and facilitating the interaction of people. What advantages this gives is obvious — supply employees see the real needs of colleagues in the supply of materials or goods, they see the rate of expenditure. With the help of the software, it is easy to develop activity plans for each department for any period, as well as duty schedules and other documents necessary for work.

The program helps to visualize the rationale for deliveries — it provides all the reports needed to develop plans, its analytical potential will allow predicting different situations. Depending on the goals and deadlines, the software will identify the priority tasks and stages. The system from our development team helps to effectively resist corruption and fraudulent supply. If some filters are introduced into the applications developed on the basis of plans, for example, to set the maximum cost of a lot on the market, requirements for the quantity or quality of goods, then the manager simply won’t be able to conclude a deal with the supplier on conditions that are unfavorable for the company. If you try to buy the wrong material, raw materials at an inflated price, the program automatically blocks the document and sends it for the personal review of the manager. And the director will decide whether it was a mistake or was committed with a clear unlawful purpose, for example, to get a kickback.

The program will help you choose the best suppliers. It’ll collect all the information about their prices and conditions and combine them into a table of alternatives, on the basis of which it’ll be very easy to make an informed choice. In addition, the system automates the work with documents, provides expert accounting and warehouse management, and provides many other opportunities.

The software can be downloaded for free, a demo version is available on the developer's website. Installation of the full version is carried out remotely via the Internet. The goal is to save time for both parties. There is no subscription fee for using the program.

Software from our developers can be used to automate and optimize the activities of any department of the company. It will simultaneously help an accountant, a sales manager. Plans can be designed for different purposes and for different professionals. The program unites different warehouses and offices in a single information space. This facilitates the transfer and speed of information between specialists, helps to achieve the optimization goal, and also provides control tools overall departments to the head.

The system has a convenient built-in planner, with the help of which plans of any complexity are developed — from the duty schedule to the budget of the whole holding. With the help of the planner, any employee will be able to draw up a plan for the day, week and track its implementation, indicate goals. The software will warn you if something important is forgotten or not completed. Our program allows for mass or personal mailing by SMS or e-mail. Customers can be notified about a promotion, a new service, or product, and the supply department can invite suppliers to take part in a tender for supplies.



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Supply plans

The application helps you form simple and understandable purchase orders, identify the person responsible for implementation and track each stage of implementation. Our program can be entrusted with a warehouse or even a network of warehouses. The system registers each delivery, mark goods, and materials, show stocks in real-time and predict shortages. If the required material comes to an end, the system certainly notifies the suppliers in advance. You can load files of any format into the program. You can add them to any record, for example, attach a photo, video, description, and characteristics to the product. These cards are easy to exchange with customers and suppliers to clarify the details of the purchase.

The software generates convenient customer and supplier databases. They contain not only contact information, but also a description of the complete history of interactions, transactions, orders, payments made. Such databases will facilitate the work of managers who see the needs and conditions of partners and reasonably correlate them with their goals. An advanced system from USU Software ensures the management of finances, takes into account income and expenses, saves the history of payments for all periods. It allows you to develop financial plans and forecast income.

The manager should be able to customize the frequency of receiving automatically generated reports in all areas — sales, supply, production indicators, and so on.

Our application integrates with retail or warehouse equipment, payment terminals, company website, and telephony. This opens up a wide range of opportunities for innovative business conduct. This app keeps track of the work of staff, shows the personal effectiveness of each, calculates wages for those who work on a piece-rate basis. Special mobile applications have been developed for employees and regular customers. For companies with a narrow specialization or the presence of specificity in their activities, developers can offer a unique version of the software, created taking into account all the important nuances.