Storage capacity planning by KapaPlan

Successful logisticians have to be flexible and proactive. However, production logisticians and service providers operating locally distributed storage capacities oftentimes plan their storage quantities on call or according to their best knowledge. Tools, offering a clear view upon future storage capacity occupancies and their correlating load and costs, while facing a constantly fluctuant required quantity, have not been available so far. 

„KapaPlan“ , a SALT Solution Application offers a novel assistance system which supports the demand forecast, the strategic storage planning and the cost analysis of occupancy-scenarios. KapaPlan, the cooperative research project solution of  LogistikPlan GmbH and SALT Solutions offers:

• Comprehensive order forecast
• Capacity profiles
• Planning of distributed storage capacities and complex item structures
• Simulation and controlling of load peaks

KapaPlan provides an extensive support for logistics planners. Defined advantages are within the possibility to quickly create and shape planning scenarios without a system intervention.

KapaPlan features:

Tactical analysis and mapping

• Display of the storage capacity profile
• Display of the resource capacity profile
• Performance and cost profile of the entire warehouse logistics system
• Process oriented mapping
• Mapping of customer demand profiles
• Derivation of the sales trend

Stock forecast

• Demand forecast
• Derivation of  strategic as well as tactical measures for the development of customer-, product- or order segments based on created forecast data
• Bid estimation

Calculation of the storing position and the turnover capacities

• Calculation of the required resources by the help of the stocking situation development

Planning and Optimization

• Item allocation to the available resources
• Derivation of bottlenecks and excess capacities
• Comparison of costs and sales
• Item/ performance evaluation by the means of the key figure model

The cooperative research project has been supported by EU funds (EFRE) of the Sächsische AufbauBank (SAB).