Measure Planner Effort Across the Planning Stack
Pyze measures how demand and supply planning work is performed across the planning stack and everything around it, then measures what changed.
Engagement archetypes from Pyze deployments across planning and supply chain operations rather than a single named account.
Planning organisations invest heavily in planning systems and then discover the planner day is dominated by retrieval, reshaping and reconciliation of data the system already holds. Time for planning judgement is what remains.
Common Findings in Supply Chain & Planning
Four patterns that recur across engagements, each shown with the measurement and the resulting change.
We bought a planning platform and the planners still live in Excel.
AutomateRetrieval and reshaping of data already held in the platform is the single largest category of planner effort.
Preparation is scheduled and the planner starts from a working file, which shifts planner time from preparation to judgement.
Every market runs the process differently and each says its way is required.
StandardizeProcedures held as one standard plus the differences per market, so necessary variation separates from accumulated variation.
Unjustified variation removed and justified variation documented, which is the precondition for automating across markets.
Master data hygiene is a permanent background task.
AutomateThe maintenance is deterministic and is being done reactively, after a failure has surfaced it.
Reference data maintained from the source signal rather than repaired after the fact.
Exception-based planning was the goal and everything is still reviewed.
AgentifyThe exception criteria exist but are not trusted, because no measurement shows what a review changes.
Only the forecasts that need judgement reach a planner, with the criteria supported by measurement.
Opportunity Register
A sample register, sorted by the lever that resolves each opportunity. In an engagement, each line carries measured hours, a named owner and the evidence it was derived from.
Systems typically instrumented
Capture covers browser-delivered and thick-client applications, including virtualized estates, with no change to how anyone works.
Roles Involved
Instrumentation is configured per application rather than per person, so the population in scope is set during scoping and is not a deployment constraint.
How an Engagement Runs
Baseline, blueprint, transform, prove
The same four stages apply in every sector. The fourth stage repeats the baseline measurement, which makes the engagement an ongoing operating capability rather than a one-time report.
Baseline
What the work costs today, measured across every person and application.
Blueprint
Procedures, application rules and execution evidence, read as one target state.
Transform
Where each of the five levers applies, priced and owned.
Prove
The after state measured against the baseline, using the same method.
Frequently Asked Questions
Planners report that the spreadsheet work is judgement rather than preparation.
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Start with a measured baseline
Six weeks from instrumentation to a priced opportunity register, and the baseline stays in place so later quarters are measured rather than re-estimated.