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i2 Supply Chain Management Solutions are geared toward solving customers’ specific business objectives. Each one of i2’s solutions is built upon industry best practices and leverages the knowledge of years of experience with thousands of implementations. i2 solutions integrate with data, processes, and systems belonging to suppliers, customers, distributors, carriers, partners, and contract manufacturers.
But how do companies put these solutions into action in the unpredictable modern business landscape? The i2 Agile Business Platform, a unique service-oriented architecture, is designed specifically to meet the requirements of the new generation of supply chain management. The platform includes a technology layer of services such as XML data modeling, a business process workflow engine, and a business programming language.
In addition there is a layer of core business functionality that provides capabilities such as plan management, execution management, visibility, and collaboration. A company can simply “plug in” its existing i2 products into the platform to provide and extract critical data to make more informed decisions. The platform also accepts input from legacy and ERP applications.
Using workflows—easy-to-use programming capabilities based on i2’s industry domain expertise—i2 customers are able to leverage the power of the i2 Agile Business Process Platform to automate solutions.
Supply Management
i2 Supply Management solutions allow you to manage the product costs through the overall product life cycle, with the capability to define target costs and compare them with actual costs.
Plan Management
i2 Plan Management enables companies to boost customer service levels due to increased product availability and improved responsiveness. Cash-to-cash cycles are lowered with synchronized planning and execution.
Retail Management
i2 Retail Management enables the following workflows:Merchandise Financial Planning, Buying and Assortment Management, Allocation and Replenishment Management, and Cycle Time Optimization.
Inventory Management
i2 Inventory Management facilitates near real-time monitoring and event management throughout the inventory life cycle. It also enables companies to closely analyze point-of-sale data, profile buying behaviors and trends, and quantify risks and variability. A segmentation menu offers the ability to organize data by standard attributes such as volume, revenue, and margin, as well as any custom attributes. Inventory Management from i2 provides multiple optimization options to minimize cost, maximize performance, redistribute inventory, and analyze total landed cost. A performance manager dashboard in i2 Inventory Management enables continuous learning and improvement.
Transportation and Logistics Management
i2 Transportation and Logistics Management has been designed and proven to empower transportation as a strategic enterprise by enabling industry best practices in the areas of design, procurement, planning, execution, and visibility.
Manufacturing Management
i2 Manufacturing Management synchronizes material between the factory floor and multi-tiered supplier operations and optimizes capacity and labor while reducing inventory and order-to-delivery lead times. It provides intelligent material, capacity, and constraint management, along with the quick detection of problems, proactive exception-based management, and rapid “what-if “analysis, to streamline factory and supplier operations. Companies can consolidate planning and execution workflows, eliminating mismatches that create chaos and non-value added activities on the shop floor.
Multi-Channel Management
Through Point-of-Sale (POS) Demand Sensing, Collaborative Customer Management, and Intelligent Selling, Multi-Channel Management serves as one of the most critical ways that a company can better serve its customers and establish competitive advantage. |
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