Supply Chain Design
This solution is designed to help metals companies optimize the structure of the metals supply chain and to maximize the positioning of inventories throughout the supply chain. Supply Chain Network Design and Optimization enables planners to construct and manipulate “what-if” scenarios, combining linear programming, mixed integer programming, and discrete event simulation. It provides a means to quickly represent complexities and interdependencies of the entire extended supply chain, and assess the merits of strategic alternatives.
Inventory Optimization helps planners design detailed inventory configurations that strike an optimized balance between cost and service. This workflow recognizes both supply and demand variability, and can be used to engineer multi-echelon postponement strategies.
Sales and Operations Planning
i2 offers two workflows that combine to enable a closed-loop sales and operation planning process. Demand Forecasting combines web-based customer collaboration capabilities with sophisticated forecasting algorithms to help planners develop a consensus forecast for the enterprise.
Master Planning and Profit Optimization provides a practical and effective application of linear programming technology to solving the planning problem, where margin per hour is maximized along constrained process paths. This workflow results in an optimized operating plan for the enterprise.
Sourcing Strategy and Planning
Sourcing Strategy and Planning enables procurement analysis, supplier selection and evaluation, and collaborative supplier relationship management. The solution can provide spend analysis across multiple configurable dimensions including supplier, item, time, and organization, to help procurement professionals manage the supplier portfolio. This solution provides tracking of sourcing decisions and closing the loop through on-going supplier performance management.
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