Material Allocation App (object-centric) version 1.0.0 (2024-02-22)

Understand excess supply and uncovered demand and find inventory reallocation opportunities (General Availability)

Our object-centric Material Allocation app for Inventory Management is now in General Availability status. The Material Allocation app uses constraint-based optimization and insights generated with object-centric process mining to identify opportunities for working capital optimization, through moving existing inventory from where it is not needed to where it is needed the most. The calculations take labor or transportation cost into account as well as any additional constraints specific to your business. Use the Bill of Material Explosion and Inventory Projection features to evaluate the impact and feasibility of your proposed re-allocations.

The object-centric Material Allocation app is the successor to the case-centric Material Shortages app, which is now deprecated. The Material Allocation app is a premium app, and is subject to an additional licensing fee. Talk to your Celonis account team to arrange this before you download the app.

To use the Material Allocation app you’ll need a Celonis license that includes object-centric process mining. The app needs some additional custom object types to enable its use cases, so you’ll need to create a custom Inventory Management perspective to use with the app in place of the supplied perspective. When you request the app in Marketplace we’ll provide a step-by-step guide for you to do this.

For the app documentation, see Material Allocation app - object-centric.