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An efficient supply chain process relies on an effective method of finding potential gains and innovations in various functional areas including manufacturing, replenishment, capacity, operations, fulfillment, inventory, distribution, transportation, and financials.
The i2 Solution: i2 Performance Manager
i2 Performance Manager provides packaged business intelligence (analytics and reporting) for i2 solutions. Performance Manager is designed to provide a way to create a multi-perspective view of i2 planning and execution data, as well as the ability to “drill down” to a detailed level in order to do a root-cause analysis.
Performance Manager addresses the integrated analytics requirements of i2 solutions by focusing on the interdependencies among the overall processes of anticipating market demand, positioning enterprise resources to meet demand, and fulfilling demand as it is realized.
Capabilities of i2 Performance Manager can include:
- Standard data warehouse model
- Standard extractors between i2 engines and data warehouse
- Standard metrics, key performance indicators, and reports
- Creation of standard reports, such as demand orders or operations summary details, that can be delivered automatically to end users
- Plan versus plan comparison—comparing multiple plans (constrained versus unconstrained and plans with different constraints) to determine the most optimized plan to execute—or to identify limitations
- Cross-functional analysis—analyzing data across solutions
- Plan accuracy—plan-to-actual comparison
- Trending—versioned data history to support trend analysis
- Rich user interface capabilities including dashboard, alerts, exceptions, ad hoc multi-dimensional analysis, calculations, charting, formatting, and sorting
Benefits of i2 Performance Manager can include:
- Improved decision making
- Shorter deployment time (packaged solution)
- Guaranteed upgrades of analytics solution with other i2 upgrades
- Increased access to i2 intellectual property around metrics, key performance indicators, and reports
- Decreased maintenance and cost
- Customizable and extensible solution
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