PlanningForce Steers Processes, from Strategy Development to Real Time Operations

PlanningForce’s methodologies and tools interact in unison, integrating all planning levels within the organization to let you manage your processes in more agile and optimal ways.

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PlanningForce Steers Business Processes,
from Strategy Development to Real Time
Operations Monitoring

PlanningForce’s methodologies and tools interact in unison,
integrating all planning levels within the organization to let
you manage your processes in more agile and optimal ways.

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Reinforce cooperation across all levels

The success of a company depends on how its stakeholders cooperate. In modern companies, this cooperation is organized around the concept of planning. Initially, planning can be done on a few spreadsheets and Gantt charts. But as the company grows, the complexity and the number of various plans increases, making it difficult to coordinate them. Less coordination leads to more and more people working in silos. Interpersonal tensions increase, as do meetings, bureaucracy and emails. Agility decreases, therefore overall performance begins to suffer.

To reverse this trend and regain agility, companies need to connect the various plans at all levels. With PlanningForce, this will be done thanks to dynamic integration of strategic, tactical, operational and executional plans through cascading planning cycles. Department managers are informed in a timely manner about goals and changes that may affect their operations. Decisions are based on realistic capacities, as well as on updated views of the progress of activities. A same vision of reality is shared by all management and teams. This gives greater meaning to the work and involvement of each stakeholder. Cooperation can then develop again, transforming this renewed energy into increased performance gains.

Multi Level Planning : When cascading PDCA cycles help to reconcile Waterfall and Agile

Multi Level Planning is at the heart of the ELP management system tools and methodologies.

It orchestrates a process of change that is rooted in the reconciliation of a planning approach based on budgets, workloads and deadlines with the needs of a modern approach that requires increased agility in the implementation of projects.

Resource capacities help to connect levels

Thanks to Multi Level Planning, disputes between waterfall and agile promoters remain in the past. In fact, if the plans for each level remain guided by project priorities and constraints coming from higher levels, the constraints were defined according to the real capacities available to the lower levels.

Each level also has, within the envelope of objectives assigned to it, autonomy in the choice of means and processes that will enable it to achieve its objectives.

Decisions circulate almost instantaneously

The cascade of PDCA-type cycles, coupled with various advanced planning and information consolidation techniques, make it possible to circulate decisions almost instantaneously from the top of the company to the operational levels, and back, with a view of consolidating progress and budget consumption.

The right decisions can therefore be taken more quickly and on the basis of more reliable data. The agility that is required at the operational level thus goes all the way up to the top of the company.

Complexity remains “hidden inside”

By being handled on an IT level, the complexity of multi level management is reduced considerably. This makes it possible to lighten the management structure and make the most of the company’s capabilities, while accelerating the production of dashboards and advanced analytics, as well as combating the rise of psychosocial illnesses, such as burn-outs.

Last but not least, thanks to Multi Level Planning, S&OP processes become the driving force behind the company’s Supply Chain. A Supply Chain that can function optimally in both directions of the supply and demand relationship, thus enabling the company to become more opportunistic commercially and less dependent on market hazards.

Multi Level Planning : When cascading
PDCA cycles help to reconcile Waterfall and Agile

Resource capacities help to connect levels

Multi Level Planning is at the heart of the ELP management system tools and methodologies.

It orchestrates a process of change that is rooted in the reconciliation of a planning approach based on budgets, workloads and deadlines with the needs of a modern approach that requires increased agility in the implementation of projects.

Thanks to Multi Level Planning, disputes between waterfall and agile promoters remain in the past. In fact, if the plans for each level remain guided by project priorities and constraints coming from higher levels, the constraints were defined according to the real capacities available to the lower levels.

Decisions circulate almost instantaneously

Each level also has, within the envelope of objectives assigned to it, autonomy in the choice of means and processes that will enable it to achieve its objectives.

The cascade of PDCA-type cycles, coupled with various advanced planning and information consolidation techniques, make it possible to circulate decisions almost instantaneously from the top of the company to the operational levels, and back, with a view of consolidating progress and budget consumption.

The right decisions can therefore be taken more quickly and on the basis of more reliable data. The agility that is required at the operational level thus goes all the way up to the top of the company.

Complexity remains “hidden inside”

By being handled on an IT level, the complexity of multi level management is reduced considerably. This makes it possible to lighten the management structure and make the most of the company’s capabilities, while accelerating the production of dashboards and advanced analytics, as well as combating the rise of psychosocial illnesses, such as burn-outs.

Last but not least, thanks to Multi Level Planning, S&OP processes become the driving force behind the company’s Supply Chain. A Supply Chain that can function optimally in both directions of the supply and demand relationship, thus enabling the company to become more opportunistic commercially and less dependent on market hazards.

SOLUTIONS

What we do

SOLUTIONS

What we do

Strategic
Steering

Strategic steering makes it possible to conceive scenarios and formulate, monitor and adapt the long-term strategic vision for your business

Tactical
Steering

Tactical steering is at the heart of the value chain, optimizing decision-making and regulating flows through  the orchestration of PDCA cycles.

Operational
Steering

Operational Steering is focused on carrying out business activities in conformity with what was defined at the stage of tactical planning.

Execution
Steering

Task Execution Steering takes place in real time through manual or automatic data collection at the level of work-in-process on workstations.

CASE STUDIES

Our experience

Maisons du Nord chooses PlanningForce to simultaneously plan its entire project portfolio, which includes more than 175 new homes to be built per year. They use the solution from central planning to monitoring execution on the ground using a mobile device.

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