Your ERP records everything — and decides nothing. C&DS is the decision-support layer on top: it checks every promise against real capacity, replenishes on actual consumption, and tells the whole chain what to do first.
Forty years of TOC practice, compiled into software.
C&DS doesn't replace your systems — it makes them decisive. The ERP stays the system of record; C&DS becomes the system of decision.
C&DS runs alongside the ERP you already have — past implementations integrated with Microsoft Dynamics ERPs, among others. No rip-and-replace: orders, stock and routings flow in; decisions flow out.
The plant and chain are modelled with a structural distinction between constraints and non-constraints — so protection goes where it counts, and only there.
Every customer request is reviewed against real capacity and inventory before commitment — make-to-order, make-to-stock or hybrid. A plan that ignores the constraint is fiction; C&DS makes it visible at the moment of the promise.
Red-amber-green buffer status is the single priority signal for the shop floor and purchasing alike. Everyone works from the same list, and expediting meetings disappear.
Every hole in a buffer gets a cause; C&DS automatically generates Pareto analyses that point to the obstacle with the biggest impact. Fix it, shrink the buffer, repeat.
Each instrument answers one operational question — all of them anchored to the same constraint-based logic.
Reviews every customer request against operational constraints — capacity and inventory — before commitment. Focused on the bottleneck and buffers: a stable plan that stays in line with reality without becoming over-sophisticated.
Availability at minimum inventory for purchasing, finished goods and raw materials — C&DS Classic algorithms or DDMRP logic, with dynamic adjustments and pipeline control.
A unique technique that creates the necessary protection for a global supply chain while avoiding over-protection. The right signals for smooth flow, across the entire chain.
An online view of real performance and the reasons for deviation — reliable delivery performance with minimal inventory, visible while it happens rather than in next month's report.
The diagnostic module: queue monitoring and event tracking map the obstacles to flow, and automatically generated Pareto analyses identify the causes with the most impact.
Continuous monitoring of rapidly changing priorities supports the right decision at every level of the chain — every day, not once per planning cycle.
The goal at every level of the chain — purchasing, raw materials, semi-finished, finished goods: guarantee availability while holding the least stock needed to do so.
System performance is monitored in the buffer — stock buffers in the supply chain, time buffers in production and projects. Buffer penetration is the one priority everyone shares.
Under-protection causes shortages; over-protection causes excess inventory. C&DS navigates between the two by making buffer status visible and actionable.
Due dates are promised only after the constraint has been consulted. The disappointment that used to be built into every promise disappears at the source.
The highest-leverage improvement comes from analysing why buffers get consumed — not from debating how big they should be. POOGI institutionalises that loop.
In Goldratt's words: better approximately right than precisely wrong. C&DS doesn't chase decimal precision — it keeps decisions robust across the whole range of uncertainty.
C&DS supply chain, Dynamic Replenishment, Buffer Management and POOGI modules across 5 plants and 3 distribution centres: –40% inventory at very high service levels.
Read the case →C&DS planning, replenishment and buffer management integrated with their ERP across three plants: –50% lead time, –30% finished-goods inventory, tangible within 8 months.
Read the case →C&DS Buffer Management for shop floor and purchasing focus — from design to a live shop floor in 6 months.
Read the case →Bring an extract of your orders, stock and routings. In a working session we'll show you where your constraint sits — and what C&DS would tell your team to do first, tomorrow morning.
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