The quality of a plan is greatly impacted by the quality of data it is given. Often the first sign that something is wrong is when the plan results are not as anticipated. This wastes time and causes frustration.
The sofco approach is to get the data right and then start planning. This is accomplished through the Pre Planning dashboard which displays the results of a range of checks that the system has carried out:
- Referential Integrity Checking
- Missing records e.g. Parameters
- Incorrect values e.g. negative when should be positive
- Erroneous - outside of user definable tolerances
- Incompatible e.g. Lot Sizing
- Irrelevant – e.g. Obsolete