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Strategic Network Design and Analysis provides advanced decision support used in evaluating strategic infrastructure requirements, capital asset utilization, and optimal inventory flow and usage.
Capabilities include:
- Supply chain design and infrastructure planning
- Support for strategic procurement, inventory, market, and master planning
- Mature and robust problem-solving features
- Cost representation
- Intuitive user interface
- Reporting, analysis, data import, and export utilities
- Fast and simple installation to desktop PC or laptop
Benefits include:
- Make strategic planning tolls and technologies accessible to designated users
- Provide powerful decision support at key stages of the supply chain
- Support more unified and effective monitoring and evaluations
- Help control costs while boosting supply chain speed and productivity
- Rationalize supply chain networks being combined in a merger or acquisition
- Create "what-if" scenarios around new customer contracts, outsourcing alternatives, or new suppliers
Supply Chain Visibility can provide proactive monitoring and early alerting capability of potential logistics challenges, which enable true exception-based management and issue resolution.
Capabilities include:
- Enables monitoring of multiple business processes within a single application
- Contextual visibility across orders, shipments, and inventory within a distributed enterprise
- Configurable event detection mechanism and customizable event management workflows
- Multi-tiered order and inventory tracking
- Provides a "right now" picture
- Supports context groups, work-lists, watch-lists, escalations
- Multiple modes and choices of notification (e-mail, e-mail digest, pagers, or cell phone)
- Integration to underlying applications for intelligent resolution and to prevent event recurrence
- Root-cause and performance analysis
Benefits include:
- Establish centralized control with decentralized influence
- Achieve forward visibility into potential issues with achieving targets
- Move from calendar-based to event-triggered planning and re-planning
- Increase employee productivity
- Potentially reduce execution process, personnel, and expedite costs
Transportation Bid Collaboration is a suite of tools designed to enable shipper-carrier collaboration and optimization in support of periodic contract rate negotiation process.
Capabilites include:
- Graphical representation of historical demand, customizable by mode and carrier
- Support for ocean, truckload (TL), and less-than-truckload (LTL) modes
- Web-based workflow for communication with carriers
- Exception management and data validation
- "What-if" analysis of service and cost tradeoffs or carrier rationalization
- Identifies lowest freight spend that can satisfy projected demand
- FreightMatrix-hosted service option
Benefits include:
- Reduce overall network transportation cost
- Improve carrier relations
- Rationalize carrier base
Transportation Modeling and Analysis provides scenario analysis and optimization solution that enables tactical and strategic transportation planning in support of enterprise transportation objectives.
Capabilities include:
- Flexible importing/entering/editing of data from virtually any source
- Modeling of complex real-world constraints and scenarios
- Powerful problem-solving engine to consolidate shipments, optimize delivery routes, and accommodate service requirements, as well as evaluate carriers and modes
- Sophisticated multi-leg and dynamic hub selection strategies
- Intuitive user interface with flexible reporting and graphical visualization
- PC desktop and laptop enabled
- Optimization engine and tariffs are shared with i2 Transportation Manager
Benefits include:
- Reduce costs through efficient consolidation of freight onto fewer trucks
- Improve utilization of shipping-related assets such as warehouses, trucks, and containers
- Optimize transportation strategies and modes
- Improve on-time deliveries, product availability, and customer satisfaction
- Evaluate changes to the network that are driven by new distribution channels, suppliers, or customers
- Develop new revenue channels and increase profits
Transportation Planning and Management is an enterprise solution that enables full life-cycle planning, processing, execution, and monitoring of shipment activity in an operational environment.
Capabilities include:
- Optimized shipments and loads for minimum cost and maximum utilization
- Web, EDI, fax, or e-mail communications for orders and tenders
- Support for merge-in-transit, dynamic hub selection, and cost allocation
- Support for multiple languages and international deployments
- Proactive monitoring for exception-based, in-transit visibility
- Automated 3D load plans, carrier selection, and network-wide transport plans
- Analytics and comprehensive reporting features
- FreightMatrix-hosted service option
Benefits include:
- Achieve substantial transportation costs savings
- Accelerate return on investment
- Increase visibility, asset utilization, and inventory efficiencies
- Improve customer satisfaction
- Achieve better labor productivity
- Establish transactional accountability for audit and compliance
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