The solution does not lie in traditional transactional ERP systems, which are reactive in nature. You need a decision-making system like Planvisage Solution which

• Helps you to maintain inventory levels of your products based on customer satisfaction, demand variability and supply variability
• Makes planning decisions to allocate constrained material and shared capacity to your high priority customers
• Helps you provide due date commits to your customers on when your products can be delivered
• Optimizes on sourcing decisions on when you should order raw materials from your suppliers, and in what quantity. Unlike ERP systems, this material requirements plan (MRP) must consider real-time capacity constraints, so that inventory is not stocked unnecessarily
• Helps you to schedule capacity resources optimally, maximizing plant utilization efficiently and effectively
• Provides a feedback on plan vs. actual to enable continuous improvement – Kaizen