Today’s challenges demand a new perspective–the supply chain as the focus for operational excellence.
In order to succeed in today’s high-technology industry, companies must compete to provide customers with world-class, innovative products and services at the lowest cost possible. Poor information management strategies across the extended supply chain—partner connectivity, information consolidation, asynchronous planning, and execution—all pose further risks to achieving business and financial metrics. Add to this increasing volatility in demand, rising customer expectations, and product proliferation coupled with short product life cycles, environmental regulations, cost control pressure, as well as the ever-widening supply chain’s geographical network.
The model the industry has adopted to meet this challenge is specialization. Brand owners select partners for design, technology, manufacturing, logistics, service, and channel management. Multiple participants now share responsibility for critical processes that cannot adequately be managed at arm’s length. Competitive advantage is created or lost in this distributed supply chain environment. The ability to manage these specialized partners in an orchestrated manner is the differentiator between leaders and laggards.
i2 helps synchronize supply chain activity at all levels—rapidly evaluating the impact of any changes, helping to decide the best possible resolution option, and then executing the decision with constant process monitoring. Leading companies across the electronics supply chain are leveraging i2 new generation solutions for closed-loop planning and execution to address critical business challenges.
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