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APS readiness assessment
Are you about to embark on an APS transformation journey and in need of an objective assessment of your organization’s readiness?
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APS design
Are you looking for expert knowledge to decide on the best fit design model and detailing out your E2E APS design?
Learn moreAPS implementation & operationalization
Are you looking for hands support and practical experience to drive a successful APS implementation?
Learn morePlanning parameter automation
Is your data doing the work for you? How well embedded are the processes that keep your APS input parameters up to date?
Learn more"We offer the expertise, experience and hands on mentality to get your planning system designed, operational and boost performance."
Bart Paridaen End-to-end transformation lead
APS readiness assessment
We assess your organizational capabilities and the readiness of data, support systems and process maturity. As an outcome we provide you with a heatmap analysis to highlight the key focus areas for improvement.
- Review organizational capabilities and readiness (data, support systems, process maturity)
- Heatmap analysis of key improvement / focus areas as pre-requisite for a successful APS implementation
User requirements
We can help you detail out the specific functional and technical requirements for your future planning solution. We do this with your defined to-be process in mind.
- Detail out the specific functional and technical requirements for a future planning solution
- Assess user requirements considering the to-be planning process (see E2E process design)
APS design
We can guide you in defining and deciding for the best pre-design option. Next, we support you in working out the detailed E2E functional, master data, and integration design for your APS in line with your to-be planning processes.
- Work our potential different pre-design options
- Functional design (what will the system do) in conjunction with the to-be planning process
- Master data design
- Integration design (which system is in the lead) incl. data flows
APS implementation & operationalization
We help you in the different phases of implementation, amongst others with preparing user stories, test plans and scripts, training and cutover. And once live, we take the extra mile to operationalize your planning cycles and continuously improve your APS experience.Â
- Support agile system configuration cycles
- Orchestration and execution of functional, business simulation and UAT testing
- Perform key / end user trainings and complete training and process documentation
Training and capability building
We help our customers with a broad range training offering to improve the theoretical, process oriented, and system technical capabilities of their teams.
- On the job coaching and expert trainings
- Supporting process and system capability continuous improvements
Planning parameter automation
We help you in setting up a user centric control tower for continuous monitoring and update of your planning parameters. We also love to explore together with you, which parts of the process can be (semi-)automated.
- Setting up a governance process and design the supportive tools to review and update planning parameter standards (based on historical actuals)
- Help with the operationalization and execution of the designed processes