1. 11.1.1 Key Enhancements Overview
Vipul Agrawal
TVP, Product Management

2. PTC Service Parts Management Release Schedule
Aug
2014
Jan
2015
Sept
2015
May
2016
Dec
2016
v 10.7
v 11.0
v 11.1
v 11.2
v 11.3
Forward looking information subject to change without notice

3. Key Themes of SPM11.1.1 (GA Sept. 15, 2015)
Forecasting
Causal Forecast Failure Rate And BOM Views
Composite Forecast GUI
Enable Outlier Analysis For Intermittent Parts
New Graphing Package
ABC Segments Based On Forecasts
Inventory Optimization
Combined Multi-indenture Availability Optimization And Fill Rate Optimization
Customer Wait Time SKU Constraints
Rotable Pool Fill Rate Enhancements
Part Budget Summary Report
Part Criticality Multiplier In Bang For Buck Calculation
Overrides To Production Workflow
Churn Control Enhancements
Order Planning / iPWS
Part Chain Improvements
iPWS Workqueue Pair/Part Reviewed Status
iPWS Availability For All Pairs
iPWS Deployment Tab And Usability Improvements

4. SPM 11.1.1: Key Forecasting Enhancements

5. Forecasting: Causal Forecasting GUI
GUI ability to view/add/modify/delete Product BOMs and Failure rates
Hierarchical BOM view for multi-level BOMs
Completes the main views to review data behind causal forecasts

6. Forecast Based ABC Classification
Ability to classify pairs based on item’s Forecast and Forecast Value
Ability to use not only the classification but the attribute value as well in segmentation, such as 12 month demand < 1, or 3 month forecast >1
Very useful in creating stocking business rules

7. Composite Forecast GUI
Ability to create, review and assign profiles in GUI

8. New Graphing package for Demand (Forecast) pages
Using modern Zing chart library
Easy to see demand, forecast and archived forecast profile
Demand page layout improvements with data table on left divided in two logical sections for inputs and output.

9. Demand Graph with less details

10. With details

11. SPM 11.1.1: Key Inventory Optimization Enhancements

12. Multi-Indenture Multi-Echelon Availability Optimization
Product Uptime (Availability) Optimization across indentures and echelons
Coordinated stocking of assemblies, subassemblies, components trading of cost, repair time, commonality of components, service targets etc. in a supply chain using replacement rate data
Contract Based Availability and Wait time targets
SPM is the only planning system with this functionality, critical for Defense and PBL (such as power by the hour), interest in Hi-tech also.

13. Optimization to Customer Wait Time Targets
Ability to set average wait time (demand response time) targets for a service group or SKUs in addition to fill rate and availability targets
Adds an important dimension to service targets, that is frequency used in service entitlements of our customers
Key functionality in A&D and PBL, also useful in MRO and distribution environments

14. Rotable Pool Optimization
Optimal placement of a specified rotable pool size or current inventory with in a specified group of locations (local, regional or global pool)
Rotable pool report to review the overview of the pool and details of pool locations
Ability to set a pool fill rate target that measures service based on pooled inventory and allocate inventory optimally in network
Competitive advantage in a important business need for Hi-tech and A&D

15. Scenario Part Multi-period Budget Report
Cash flow (procurement and repair) and service projections based on multi-period optimization for any Part
Helps analyzing cash flow details at part level in addition to scenario level

16. Key Inventory Optimization Enhancements (cont.)
Enhanced Multi-Period Churn Control Optimization
Multi-period churn control optimization to reduce churn and minimize new buys by making best use of existing inventory
Further improvements in (10/28/2015)
Use of Criticality to Influence Optimization
Criticality specified for a part at a location can be used to give higher or lower priority to certain items.
Helps our customers to move inventory investment from less critical to more critical parts in a systematic manner
Production Scenario Improvements
Ease of applying overrides directly to production.

17. SPM 11.1.1: Key Order Plan Enhancements

18. Order Planning/ IPWS enhancements
Chain transfer improvements for Alternate Parts
Higher utilization of downchain alternate part inventory
One-click ‘Part/Pair Reviewed’ action in iPWS Review Board
Saves time, user clicks and increases user productivity when navigating between work queue items by avoiding having to visit the same part again
IPWS: Full Page availability for no activity (Non-GAP) pairs
Planners can now make use of full iPWS functionality for such pairs, e.g. review existing data (such as demand and forecast), add notes, view review reasons, etc.
Manual order entry enables planners to ‘kick-start’ planning
IPWS: Time Series Grid Improvements
‘Unfulfilled Replenishment Need’ added to ‘Total Requirements’ in Time Series Grid for better visibility of child location’s remaining needs
Red highlighting of negative numbers

19. Order Planning/ IPWS enhancements
IPWS: Enhanced Deployment tab
Inbound and out bound replenishment and balancing orders in deployment tab
Future Sales Orders and Procurement/Repair recommendations
Context links in deployment section
IPWS: Highlighting and Counts of Conditions
Highlighting existence of sales orders, sales returns, backorders and journal entries
Graphing Custom time series
Ability to see custom time series data in graphs
IPWS: Enhanced Inventory Position section
Easy to understand netting of Supply and Requirements for trigger planned pairs
On Demand details such as chain transfers