PlanCentral

PlanCentral is a web-based supply chain portal, offering its proprietary supply chain planning software, on-line knowledge, on-line consulting, a comprehensive implementation methodology, facilitated web-based meetings, and related links. It is the first complete supply chain portal in the marketplace. PlanCentral's mission is to make small to mid-size companies gain true value from their supply chains, by providing them with a supply chain planning solution that is comprehensive, simple to use, affordable, and rapidly deployable. Targeting small to mid-size enterprises in the consumer packaged goods vertical, PlanCentral offers companies a way to break the traditional high cost, lengthy time to benefit barrier, and begin collaboratively planning with their supply chain trading partners, leverage PlanCentral's immense knowledge resources, solve problems with PlanCentral consultants 24x7 globally, and link to supply chain resources for related products and services on-line. PlanCentral works on an hosted Application Service Provider (ASP) technology model. "Supply Chain Management" is the coordination of demand and supply of products between a raw material supplier and the end-consumer. This involves the coordination of the flow of goods, information, and money throughout this 'chain'.