DELMIA Demand Planning vs HEKA

DELMIA Demand Planning is Windows software for forecasting customer demand in manufacturing and supply-chain operations. It combines historical sales, market trends and external factors with statistical algorithms, machine learning and generative AI to identify patterns, choose models and flag anomalies. Teams can add market intelligence such as promotions or economic shifts to statistical forecasts. Planners can pivot through SKU, category, region and other product or geographic levels, then run scenarios to estimate inventory and financial effects of disruptions or strategic changes. Forecast automation accepts new data, recalculates forecasts, monitors accuracy and escalates critical exceptions. Demand plans connect with DELMIA Supply Planning and S&OP for procurement, production and capacity alignment, while the DELMIA Quintiq Demand Planner factsheet describes R statistical platform integration. The listed 2026 release supports 64-bit Windows 10 and 11 plus Windows Server 2016, 2019 and 2022, and requires QR Server 1.7.4. Pricing is on request.

HEKA is a web-based modular Manufacturing Operating System with MES capabilities for manufacturers. It links standard work, production execution, performance management and continuous improvement in one system. Teams create browser-based work instructions containing photos, tools, parts, specifications and PPE. They can record station work, divide recordings into steps, annotate them and publish controlled instructions. Revisions are versioned, reviewed and approved with a signed audit trail. The same instruction source can publish to operator stations or A4 sheets, supporting paper, hybrid and fully digital operations. HEKA connects approved methods, production bills of materials, work orders and operator instructions. It tracks availability, performance and quality by process, line and shift, relating downtime and defects to work context. Improvement tools include 5S audits, Kaizen actions and follow-up that can move verified improvements into updated standards. Pricing is on request, scoped to the operation and pilot rather than sold per seat.