Welcome to ChaosPlanning.com
Chaos Planning aims to help supply planning veterans and beginners learn how supply chain solvers work through visual examples. This site is being updated regularly, so check back for new examples and future access to the Chaos Solver.
Visualize Supply Planning
Businesses with large supply chains rely on supply chain solvers to calculate what actions they need to take to meet demand. These actions are known as the supply plan and must be followed by the businesses to make, ship, and buy the right quantity at the right time.
The One Store Example shows the simplest supply planning example where demand is needed at a single store. This example shows how the solver traverses the network and finds supply at the supplier to satisfy demand at the store.
Learn BOM Math
Materials Replenishment Planning (MRP) focuses on exploding product BOMs to calculate material needs. The One BOM Example demos how solvers do BOM calculations one input at a time. Check out the Partial BOM Example to see how the Chaos Solver replans when only partials supply is found for a BOM.
Understand Capacity Planning
Supply Planning is easy until we introduce constraints. The Capacity Planning Example shows how solvers plan and replan when allocating limited capacity to demand. This "constrained plan" output of the solver is critical for supply planners to understand and communicate what demand isn't possible to satisfy without taking alternative actions.
View all the Examples
Go to the examples page to see all the supply planning examples Chaos Planning has to demo.
