Meet the new LUMI VM. The Virtual Manager that brings supply chain expertise together — from the forecast to the factory floor.
SUPPLY CHAIN INTELLIGENCE
Ask. Analyze. Understand. Advise. Act. Anticipate. Orchestrate.
One entry point. Many process agents.
Select a process to find out about the specialist.
THE LUMI VM ECOSYSTEM
LUMI VM for sedApta Sales Analysis
Explains the statistical forecast and flags where it needs attention.
Detects
Strong trends, persistent forecast error, missing forecasts and products with little history.
Helps you with
A prioritized review, with likely causes such as bias, seasonality or algorithm fit.
One of many questions LUMI VM can answer
“Which products have a very high forecast error?”
LUMI VM for sedApta Sales Collaboration
Makes every adjustment to the collaborative forecast visible and explainable.
Detects
Overrides by type, user and period; customers ordering outside their usual pattern.
Helps you with
Forecast and history by product, customer and customer group, and the evidence for the consensus discussion.
One of many questions LUMI VM can answer
“Which overrides were created last week, and by whom?”
LUMI VM for for sedApta DRP
Looks across every level of your distribution network.
Detects
Stock transfers proposed and confirmed, replenishments under lead time, materials with a negative stock trend, replenishments above a threshold in the first weeks.
Helps you with
End-of-period stock for any material, and the stock transfers proposed or confirmed across the network, with their planned dates.
One of many questions LUMI VM can answer
“Which stock transfers are proposed, and on what date are they planned?”
LUMI VM for for sedApta Inventory Management
Keeps inventory under control at a single level.
Detects
Unused stock, including stock, purchase orders, deposits, replenishments and work orders affected by shelf life, materials with turnover or unused stock above a threshold, and replenishments under lead time.
Helps you with
End-of-period stock for any material, and the stock transfers proposed or confirmed.
One of many questions LUMI VM can answer
“Do I have unused stock due to shelf life at the end of the period?”
LUMI VM for for sedApta Resource & Supply Planning
Checks that your plan is feasible across materials and capacity.
Detects
Missing or expiring materials, stock coverage below target, recurring cycle deviations.
Helps you with
Alternative materials, a target date to restore coverage, a renegotiated supplier delivery date.
One of many questions LUMI VM can answer
“Which references are at risk, and what should I change?”
LUMI VM for sedApta Order Promising
Protects your delivery commitments through allocation and deployment.
Detects
Customer order items with low coverage, late deliveries and their delay days, customers with the weakest service level, stock lots close to expiry, warehouses in overstock.
Helps you with
Lead times of any order line, materials with few assignments, the substitution rules available to cover a gap.
One of many questions LUMI VM can answer
“Which customer order items have the lowest coverage percentage?”
LUMI VM for sedApta Smart Supplier Collaboration
Gives you an early view of supplier reliability.
Detects
Orders with no materials, suppliers with late orders, suppliers who repeatedly change dates or prices.
Helps you with
Change requests raised on picking lists, and the suppliers who responded to an RFQ.
One of many questions LUMI VM can answer
“Which suppliers have late orders?”
LUMI VM for sedApta Factory Scheduling
Explains your schedule, not just displays it.
Detects
Work orders not scheduled or scheduled late, late customer orders, late supplier orders.
Helps you with
Why a work order is not scheduled, the stock status of a material over time, the work orders that consume it, the supplier orders to chase.
One of many questions LUMI VM can answer
“Why is this work order not scheduled?”
LUMI VM for sedApta MoRE (MES)
Keeps the shop floor visible as it happens.
Detects
Resources in breakdown, phases started today, scrap and counter adjustments declared on work orders.
Helps you with
Status history of phases and resources, quantities declared today, who is working on an order and how far it has progressed.
One of many questions LUMI VM can answer
“Which resources had a breakdown today?”
FROM SIGNAL TO DECISION
You ask once. LUMI VM brings in the right specialists and gives you one answer, with the reasoning shown. LUMI VM does the coordinating, and asks you when input or confirmation is needed.
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Signal
What changed?
LUMI VM picks up your question or a business event and works out what it means.
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Exposure
What is affected?
Each specialist looks at its own process: orders, stock, schedule, suppliers.
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Options
What can we do?
Alternatives are compared, with the trade-offs and the data behind them.
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Decision
You decide.
You confirm. Any action that changes data can require your confirmation.
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Example
“A supplier order will arrive late. What does it mean for my customers?”
One answer. You decide.
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Process-native
Specialized in sedApta products, your data and your business language.
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Industry-aware
Terminology, KPIs and constraints for Discrete Manufacturing, Fashion & Luxury, and Food & Beverage.
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Open to extend
Add tools, data sources and workflows without changing the core.
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A saved plan drives stock coverage below the inventory policy. The Planning Agent investigates, recommends a next step and brings the decision back to you.
An alert tells you something is wrong. LUMI VM helps you decide what to do.
INDUSTRIES
We share sedApta's experience in each industry with LUMI VM, adapting terminology, KPIs and constraints to how your sector works.
Complex BOMs
Multi-level scheduling
Capacity constraints
Shelf life and expiry
Batch constraints
Seasonal demand spikes
HUMAN CONTROL, BUILT IN
Agents see and do only what you are allowed to in the application.
Analyses state the data and method used, so you can check the why behind every answer. LUMI VM asks when information is missing.
The decision stays with you. Confirmation can be required for any action, and conversations and executed actions are logged.
Trust grows step by step. Start with answers and recommendations, and let agents do more only as your own results justify it.
LumiVM is sedApta's AI-powered Virtual Manager for production and supply chain management. "Virtual Manager" means LumiVM carries out some of a manager's typical tasks: it analyzes data, monitors operational performance, flags deviations from plan and suggests corrective actions. Its approach is human-led and agent-powered: you set goals and scope, and LumiVM's specialized agents analyze, advise and, with your confirmation, act.
You interact with LumiVM in natural language: you ask a question as you would ask a colleague and get an immediate, contextual answer based on your data. You can ask about demand trends, inventory status, detected anomalies or recommended actions. Behind the scenes, the LUMI VM Orchestrator understands the intent and routes the request to the right specialized agent, such as forecasting, inventory, planning, scheduling or supplier collaboration.
LumiVM uses advanced Machine Learning models for three kinds of predictive analysis: demand forecasting, anomaly detection and inventory optimization. Insights arrive in real time, so you can anticipate problems instead of discovering them after they have had an impact.
LumiVM recommends the best actions based on historical and real-time data, while people stay in control. You set goals and scope, LumiVM's agents detect issues and recommend actions, and confirmation can be required before any action is executed. Its analyses show which data and method they are based on, and when information is missing LumiVM asks rather than guessing.
LumiVM connects to ERP, MES and warehouse management (WMS) systems and works on their data in real time. Its specialized agents are linked to sedApta products, from Inventory Management and Resource & Supply Planning to Factory Scheduling and the MES. You get visibility across the value chain and can react as soon as something changes, without collecting data by hand from different systems.
Continuous learning is LumiVM's ability to adapt as your business evolves. The more you use it, the more it learns from interactions and accumulated experience, and the more relevant its analyses and recommendations become to your operations.
LumiVM automates order management and supports supplier collaboration. When a supplier cannot meet quantities or dates, it proposes alternative suppliers or new delivery dates and makes communication more transparent and timely. This reduces manual work and the risk of supply disruptions.
LumiVM is designed for plant managers, supply chain managers, planners and operational staff. On the ground, it offers immediate tools and AI recommendations: people working in production or in the warehouse get the information they need without going through reports or requests to other departments. It is set up for Discrete Manufacturing, Fashion & Luxury and Food & Beverage.
Within Demand Driven Manufacturing+, LumiVM is the operational brain: it runs predictive analytics, automates operational decisions in real time and adapts continuously to change. The other AI and ML capabilities in the sedApta Suite work inside individual modules (forecasting, scheduling, MES) to predict, detect anomalies and recommend actions. LumiVM is the point of contact for people: it lets you query data in natural language and coordinates specialized agents to return analyses and recommendations.
LumiVM respects the permissions each user already has in the application: agents access only the data and functions that user is allowed to access. Analyses show the data and method they are based on, and when information is missing LumiVM asks instead of assuming. Confirmation can be required for any action, and conversations and executed actions are logged, so every step remains traceable.
