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1.0000 The Supply Chain Leader Virtual Roundtable: Inventory Optimization
... tool. It allows companies to determine the right inventory targets based on their supply and demand across the network. This typically results in lower inventory targets and/or improvement in service levels. It is not unheard of to reduce inventory levels by 10 to 25 percent while improving or ... inventory decisions, a company can typically save on expedited transportation costs, which is usually a benefit. Raj: Companies can benefit from inventory optimization in many ways. This technology can help align inventory mix to enable better service levels, whether it is service levels of parts ... inventory approach and toward developing inventory policies for "right sizing" inventory for supply and demand risk. As Noha explained, many companies are moving from single-echelon to multi-echelon inventory optimization. Until recently, leading companies would use simple ABC segmentation ... 		Web Page
0.9997 Taking an Optimized Approach to Inventory Management - Supply Chain Leader
... Approach to Inventory Management --- Sometimes we forget the basics when thinking about inventory optimization, but as AMR Research and others have noted, organizations hold inventory for three basic reasons. First, because it takes time to make and move products, inventory is needed as ... and forecast errors. Third, inventory can, at times, protect companies against price increases and provide other economic advantages. But even these reasons give inventory short shrift in today's competitive markets. It is true that when managed poorly, inventory can drive up costs, waste and ... uncertainties that drive inventory and less on reacting to inventory itself. It enables them to truly understand the basic assumptions behind an inventory plan. In one example, a successful electronics manufacturer reviewed its inventory plan, supply data and inventory targets on an ongoing basis ... 		Web Page
0.9935 Continental Tire Speeds Planning Cycles and Inventory Turns - Supply Chain Leader
... customers and most profitable products. The company turned to i2 Inventory Optimization, developed to optimize the relationship between inventory management, customer service, and product line profitability. "Inventory Optimization helps us to define different service levels based on the product and ... focus our investments in inventory exactly on the products where Sales wants to have a high service level. Overall inventory efficiency does not take a hit, and on the other side, we can reduce inventory levels for products with a lower service."As a result, the tire divisions' distribution network ... Petermann — Continental Corporation Video Testimonial ON SEMICONDUCTOR: Optimizing inventory levels Case Study Replacing Inventory with Information at 3M Canada Video Testimonial ON SEMICONDUCTOR: Inventory optimization: Managing supply chain variability Video Testimonial Inventory as a Competitive ... 		Web Page
0.9890 Cooper Tire Rolls Out New System for Better Demand Fulfillment - Supply Chain Leader
... inventory management In addition to having redundant versions of its master data, Cooper also maintained five versions of inventory on its mainframe (which corresponded to the systems that used inventory). As a result, the company faced challenges in achieving one accurate picture of inventory. This ... we started growing, we needed a more global footprint of the inventory." To tackle these challenges, Cooper Tire implemented i2 Distributed Inventory Management (IMx) to help get its inventory system off the 30-year-old legacy inventory mainframe and assimilate into IMx all of its ties to order ... has a single, real time, accurate view of actual inventory today, but also a projected inventory view—positioning the company to support demand fulfillment. Increased visibility into inventory enables Cooper to quickly determine the cause of inventory problems and to implement processes that can ... 		Web Page
0.9815 7 Principles of Supply Chain Agility - Supply Chain Leader
... planning: The typical process followed when generating a plan is unidirectional, starting with a financial plan and followed by a sales plan, an inventory plan and a supply plan, and so on. The process is constraint-insensitive and slow. By the time the plan is generated, too many things have ... 		Web Page
0.9687 Leveraging POS Intelligence to Improve Retail Flow-Through - Supply Chain Leader
... toward channel inventory shifts to keeping it under tight control and ensuring that it is deployed in the right place to maximize end-consumer sales opportunities. Fortunately, it is possible for brand owners to get daily insights into both the POS and storelevel inventory picture because of recent ... worked with one brand owner that saw store availability jump from 70 to 95 percent by closely monitoring POS and inventory deployment and, at the same time, lowering the overall inventory at the retailer. The manufacturer increased operating margins and sales, thereby lifting the company to tier-one ... the sell-out while keeping inventory under tight control. Developing POS competency The shift in focus to sell-out requires brand owners to systematically develop competencies around POS in order to have meaningful impact on sell-out and channel inventory. Integrating clean POS data within an array ... 		Web Page
0.9653 A Holistic Approach to Forecast Optimization - Supply Chain Leader
... parts at specific locations, despite overall high inventory levels, causing production or sales stock-outs High price-protection cost due to stagnant inventories Increased market development costs caused by lack of understanding of customer buying habits Poor promotions effectiveness caused by ... obligations (such as those under vendor-managed inventory). Similarly, customers can be segmented by region, nature of relationship (strategic or non-strategic) or forecast reliability. A case in point: Suffering from high inventory write-offs, a leading cosmetics company conducted a forecast ... inventory was caused by items that had been introduced recently. Segmentation along product attributes helped pinpoint that poor execution during new product introduction was the cause of excess inventory. Similarly, at a semiconductor manufacturer, segmentation along process attributes yielded ... 		Web Page
0.9616 LG Sets Its Sights on Number One - Supply Chain Leader
... so we're trying to bypass the node. Obviously, the more nodes in the supply chain, the more risk we have of having excess inventory, and the wrong type of inventory. So a direct shipment from our factories to some of our customers is definitely something we are trying to implement. With North ... 		Web Page
0.9616 Outsourcing Supply Chain Analytics Can Improve Business Results - Supply Chain Leader
... demand forecasting and inventory management Managed supply chain services can rapidly improve business results, especially in the closely aligned areas of demand management and inventory optimization. By collecting and analyzing point-of-sale data, along with data on inventory levels throughout the ... demand and make better decisions about when and how to replenish inventory. A flexible demand forecasting model that regularly tunes itself to changing market conditions gives companies better guidance on how much inventory to keep and which channels and regions to distribute it to, based on buying ... companies maintain the right—that is, minimum—level of inventory throughout the supply chain, for major cost savings. Also, focusing on the right inventory strategy can have a huge impact on service levels or availability, affecting revenue and market share. These insights can be especially valuable ... 		Web Page
0.9574 Preparing for the Re-Emergence of Demand
... as the economy rebounds. And they will be challenged to effectively meet new demand with the reduced workforce, constrained capacity and lower inventory levels they established during the downturn. A recent study by AMR Research revealed that 44 percent of executives believe their greatest risk in ... mark, but an ever-evolving process of understanding and responding to a changing landscape. Demand must be continuously analyzed and shaped, inventory targets must be set and re-set, and the entire supply chain must counter the uncertainty in the marketplace with agility. While a dramatic mindset ... 		Web Page
0.9526 5 Keys to Success in Advanced Retail Planning - Supply Chain Leader
... the right product mix on hand while keeping inventory levels as low as possible. This balancing act leaves little margin for error. Besides high carrying costs, too much inventory can lead to markdowns, waste or spoilage. But too little inventory can also be costly in terms of lost sales and ... planning solutions report sharply reduced inventories, fewer markdowns and increased sales. For example, a medium-sized retailer with over 200 stores in six countries was able to reduce markdowns by up to 10 percent and inventories by 20 percent. Barriers to overcome But companies pursuing advanced ... to get good, timely information to buyers and key managers so they can make better decisions throughout the buying and assortment management process. Moreover, retailers can automate inventory management by creating business rules (such as “always maintain inventory to cover two weeks of forecast ... 		Web Page
0.9526 Managing Dynamic Demand in Electronics - Supply Chain Leader
... but keeping up with these many small changes was too much for the semiconductor manufacturer's planning and inventory management capabilities. Taking a demand-driven approach to inventory management i2 quickly understood the root of the problem: that no fixed plan can accommodate dynamic demand ... bring the company closer to an optimal, demand-driven approach to inventory management. After implementing i2 Inventory Optimization, the company was able to calculate the many complex factors involved in managing its inventory.Working closely, i2 and this manufacturer simulated different ... without increasing inventory levels." Better still, the gains were immediate—unmistakable after one month—and reached new steady states only four months later. Success metrics were off the charts. Inventory savings alone made the project's ROI virtually incalculable. Inventory Optimization delivered ... 		Web Page
0.9415 Shelf-Centered Collaboration
... price moves. This approach took collaborative efficiencies an important step closer to the consumer by enhancing vendor-managed inventory (VMI) and co-managed inventory practices at the retail distribution center. Store-level Collaboration. Since retailers were now freely sharing store-level POS ... 		Web Page
0.9415 Protecting Revenue Through Supply Chain Risk Management - Supply Chain Leader
... In addition to more complicated supply/demand cycles and needs, the inventory dynamics in the high-tech industry have also changed. In 2000, semiconductor companies held 13 percent of the total high-tech supply chain's inventory. By 2006, that figure grew to more than 30 percent. Additional players ... inventory (internal and channel) and factory utilization (with attendant supplier relations).We've learned that inventory and capacity flexibility can reduce mistakes in forecasting. We look at it this way: capacity is the risk shock absorber between tactical and strategic planning, and inventory is ... or stage, or even business unit. We realized early that our flexibility levers are inventory and capacity, and without automation and modeling algorithms in place we would not be able to stage either inventory or capacity in the right places at the right times. There's nothing like driving the ... 		Web Page
0.9351 How Do You Design a Supply Chain Organization to Achieve Maximum Value? - Opinion - Supply Chain Leader
... superior supply chain performance, capabilities and leadership. AMR Research’s annual analysis begins with basic public data—return on assets, inventory turns and growth—and also incorporates expert and peer assessments of each company. The rankings also have hard data to back up their validity; in ... gaps and cull out unneeded or redundant skills. While most of us focus a lot of attention on inventory management, we pay less attention to an equally critical concept: the management of our human inventory. Humans in the supply chain: organizing for success Organizing a group of humans to create ... 		Web Page
0.9282 Recession-Resistant Demand Management Strategies and Tactics - Supply Chain Strategy - Supply Chain Leader
... demand and pipeline inventory when the past is not a reliable indicator of the future. Accurate demand management is widely accepted as the cornerstone of supply chain excellence. It enables manufacturers to efficiently integrate production, distribution and inventory management, and deliver ... have reported sales figures declining in the double-digit range and consumer product manufacturers are taking hits on deeply discounted pipeline inventory. Consumer and business-to-business purchasing behavior has abruptly shifted, making past product performance largely irrelevant. Yet, looking ... traditional methods. Furthermore, customer order lead-time information from this analysis was used to drive postponement policies that staged inventory at different points in the supply chain to improve service levels, despite forecasting challenges. Given today's business climate, it may be ... 		Web Page
0.9281 There's Power in POS Data - Not Just for Retailers, but for Suppliers Too - Supply Chain Leader
... for Retailers, but for Suppliers Too The old techniques for meeting customer and market demand--forecasting from historical data and holding inventory--are no longer effective for consumer goods manufacturers dealing with increasingly high customerservice expectations. Traditional forecasting ... performance and issues such as out-of-stocks--usually two to four weeks after the fact, or longer, depending on the amount of replenishment inventory on hand. POS data have played a part in category management since the 1980s, when Wal-Mart first put its Retail Link® supplier network in place ... new emphasis on inventory management at the shelf level adds a new level of customer service. Essentially, it is vendormanaged inventory (VMI)--though not at the distribution center, where the manufacturer's retailer teams traditionally are required to manage inventory and replenishment. Instead, it ... 		Web Page
0.9203 Asian Paints enables growth through improved planning
... those manufacturing sites into a cohesive entity that enables us to deliver products to our customers without holding a large amount of inventory, while managing our cash cycle." This dynamic marketing and production environment requires a sophisticated and robust supply chain. In its search for a ... efficiently to customers without holding a large amount of inventory. Second, they wanted to manage their cash cycle to free up funding for an aggressive growth-by-acquisition strategy. Building a strategic supply chain Starting a decade ago, Asian Paints began leveraging advanced i2 solutions for ... 56 days of finished goods inventory. During the initial implementation phase, the company reduced that to an average of 40 days of finished goods inventory on hand, and in recent years has further reduced that figure to 30 days of finished inventory. This leaner inventory stance was a key factor in ... 		Web Page
0.9203 Linking the CFO to Supply Chain Execution - Issue 6 - Supply Chain Leader
... s financial performance creates an acute need to have complete visibility into the financial supply chain, including up-to-date changes in inventory value and other liabilities and contracts. Merging the financial plan into SCM helps both The rapidly increasing pace of business requires tight ... S&OP planning intelligence had indicated that additional shipments would lead to excess inventory at distributor- and supplier-managed hubs, which could create future price erosion and inventory write-offs. Previously, they could not have made such a timely decision because the factory wanted to ... 		Web Page
0.9201 Channel Management Strategies When Times are Tough - Supply Chain Strategy - Supply Chain Leader
... has all but frozen consumer spending in electronics. To combat this trend, CE companies are taking price and promotion activities and devaluing inventories that are not moving." On March 2, 2009, Gartner forecasted that worldwide personal computer sales will fall almost 12 percent this year, to 257 ... be noted that high inventory levels mask the flaws of forecasting. While adopting a strategy of lean inventory will improve margins, low safety stock can also make you vulnerable to the losses associated with inaccurate forecasts. Consequently, forecast improvement and inventory reduction must go ... due to shrink), to lack of inventory, to more complicated issues such as presentation stock set-up issues. 3. Co-manage forecasting and replenishment The typical chain-level collaboration between the manufacturer and retailer leaves individual store inventory levels and replenishment thresholds in ... 		Web Page
0.9115 The Supply Chain Leader Virtual Roundtable:Sales and Operations Planning
... targeting inventory levels—so-called "SIOP"—as part of the process. In the past, and still for many companies today, you can reach a consensus forecast and develop a supply plan to support it, but let someone else in the company figure out how to determine specific inventory levels to support those ... OP best practices, we have seen an increased emphasis on getting customer and channel input into the S&OP process. While receiving forecasts and inventory information from customers remains a challenge, as part of the S&OP process, companies are renewing their focus on receiving and making use of ... on bringing the financial and annual operating plan (AOP) view as part of the executive S&OP process, where demand, supply, product mix, inventory policy decisions, etc., are balanced against a company's AOP to make financially feasible decisions. In addition, we've seen that companies can no longer ... 		Web Page
0.9115 How (and How Often) Do You Measure Supply Chain Results? - Supply Chain Leader
... key supply chain performance metrics and reports the results to our senior executives. The report includes our top-tier metrics, such as inventory turns, shipment-to-commit and delivery-torequest performance, and the revenue outlook - measuring our backlog and our position relative to revenue ... important area of improvement for Fairchild involved taking better control of our channel inventory. An extensive review of our channel inventory processes has enabled us to substantially improve our inventory controls and sell-in, helping us to mitigate the bullwhip effect. Our weekly measurement ... Return on total capital On the trade, working capital side of the metrics, we look at what we call "raw-material inventory velocity," which is measured by days-on-hand of inventory. It's a commonly used measure of asset utilization.We also strive to improve days payable outstanding, so we shorten ... 		Web Page
0.9115 Interview: Buying it Right at Sprint - Supply Chain Leader
... of Product Operations at Sprint, the third-largest wireless operator in the United States (revenue, $41 billion). Hahn is responsible for inventory management, demand planning, procurement, transportation and warehouse logistics for all products purchased and sold in Sprint's distribution channels ... responsible for logistics, inventory management, supplier management and product portfolio. Prior to entering the telecommunications industry, Hahn had experience working for major U.S. retailers, such as Circuit City and Macy's. In this interview, conducted by Supply Chain Leader editor Victoria ... We liked i2's history and background working with similar-sized corporations that manage inventory across multiple distribution channels. We chose i2 for its ability to help us manage the flow in inventory through our points of distribution and, in turn, monitor the demand that we have planned with ... 		Web Page
0.9113 Old Navy Leverages Supply Chain Management Technology to Stay Lean and Green - Supply Chain Leader - i2
... how Old Navy, a Gap Inc. division, is meeting those challenges. Interview by Lauren Bossers Matt Salmonson is the senior vice president of Inventory Management at Old Navy, a division of Gap Inc. In this position since 2007, he is responsible for production, planning and allocation, brand ... noteworthy? Ultimately, inventories have become increasingly leaner in the world in general. That dynamic has been punctuated by the economic blips that we've seen in the last 10 years, whether it was 2001-2002 or whether it was this year. By virtue of the fact that inventory levels have gotten a ... On the other side, you have consumers. Because inventories have gotten leaner, how you deploy your inventory becomes a lot more precious. And while we've always strived to be demand-based and match inventory with consumer demand, when inventory gets lean, every unit counts for more. You mentioned 10 ... 		Web Page
0.9018 New Tools for a New Generation - Supply Chain Leader
... changing customer demand with the objective of never losing a sale based on insufficient supply. They achieve this without investing more in inventory or capacity, but investing in agile, responsive supply chain capability. Integration across functions Traditional applications and the supply chain ... on functional systems and processes. An example of this is a sales and operations planning (S&OP) process (see article, page 27). S&OP requires inventory, production, supply and demand information to adjust manufacturing plans to fit changing conditions. Under previous generations, S&OP was ... and purchasing requirements. But rarely does actual demand for each product conform to the forecast, leaving the company with excess inventory and unmet sales opportunities. This problem has worsened over the last decade. Shorter product life cycles give companies less time to react to market ... 		Web Page
0.9017 Customer-Centric Strategies for Assortment Management - Supply Chain Leader
... mom-and-pop stores had achieved the "customer-centric" shopping experience that's now coveted by retailers nationwide. It was a simpler time for inventory management: the owners knew their customers well, what products they needed and how much they would be willing to pay for them. If a customer ... increasingly complex task of inventory management. How do retailers balance changing market conditions, financial risks, and global sourcing and manufacturing opportunities, all while accommodating fast-changing trends? How do retailers accurately forecast inventory positions for the upcoming ... #2: Improve inventory flow Retailers that refresh their product mix on a regular basis can expect to see greater foot traffic through their stores. More dynamic floor-sets and the resulting shorter product lifecycles create the urgency of buying now—and result in less inventory overall. Store ... 		Web Page
0.9017 Process Playbooks: Playing by the Rules - Issue 6 - Supply Chain Leader
... challenge—such as low sales volume in one region—many organizations go into firefighting mode, scrambling to run promotions, drop prices, shift inventory or take other drastic actions. However, because these actions are not rooted in thoughtful planning or analysis, they may not support top-level ... common in the consumer electronics industry: ensuring adequate inventory levels during product promotions. The PC trendsetter runs so many hugely successful promotions on its retail web site that it sometimes creates low inventory levels of its most popular hard drives, monitors and other product ... in a strategic manner, leading to inventory shortages in key markets. i2 created powerful process playbooks that ensure available inventory is sent to the most promising and highest-margin regions; these playbooks also enable responses to demand shifts and inventory changes in a predetermined manner ... 		Web Page
0.9017 Planning at a Global Scale Pays off for VF Corp - Supply Chain Leader
... time, you have a six-month lead time. And as soon as you place a purchase order, you own inventory, and you're carrying it for a long time— longer than in the past.We have millions of dollars in inventory in this "float," typically. This outsourcing puts a huge challenge on the supply chain. The ... accurate plans of what needs to be made, but factors such as inventory policies, safety stocks and risk management—not to mention relationship management (we have hundreds of contract manufacturers)—have become much higher priorities than they were before. We are literally making to forecast, not ... acronyms, what about VMI? VF got involved early on with vendor-managed inventory (VMI).We were one of the front-runners with this, and we still do VMI for Wal-Mart, which is our largest customer.We have all of their inventory and all of their store models—the profile of each store's demographics ... 		Web Page
0.8913 Creating Greater Agility with Plan-Do-Check-Act - Supply Chain Leader
... strives independently to meet its own goals, without formal synchronization with the company's overarching goals. Plans across finance, sales, inventory, manufacturing and supply are largely disconnected and operating in silos. Also, at this lowest maturity level, planning and execution are ... of a supply shortage, Manufacturing might fall so far behind that recovery is impossible.Now, the sales plan becomes unrealistic because the inventory is low. You might say that at the second level the focus is on the "plan" processes in the PDCA cycle. But, while plans across processes are ... causes of the variance. Maybe the company is selling beyond plan in one region and unable to keep shelves stocked there. And maybe it has excess inventory in other regions, where sales have been below plan. To make its plan happen, Sales will have to alert Operations to an updated demand prediction ... 		Web Page
0.8913 i2 in the News - Supply Chain Leader
... 2009 Logistics Technology: Inventory Optimization: Game of strategy Logistics Management September 2009 This article on inventory optimization technology features a case study on Dell's use of i2 Inventory Optimization. Inventory: Getting more from less with inventory optimization Modern Materials ... Adeel Najmi, vice president of product strategy and planning for i2, is quoted in this article on new approaches to inventory management. i2 to Present at Automotive Logistics Global Conference Fox Business September 2009 i2 will serve as a gold sponsor at the 10th annual Automotive Logistics Global ... 		Web Page
0.8912 How do you initiate and sustain agility? - Supply Chain Leader
... changed our organizational structure, establishing what we call GBMs (global business managers), which ended arguments about transfer pricing, inventory responsibility and many other things. These GBMs run our business units, which still operate as independent companies, but now, their purview is ... We used to put a lot of inventory on the floor so the machinery didn't run out of jobs. The result was that our work-in-process (WIP) inventory was large and our throughput time was long. By applying a small-lot-size mentality to this process, we reduced WIP inventory and improved throughput time.We ... The other important momentum came from changing the organizational structure. Our 12 GBMs are in charge of global profit and loss and global inventory for their business units. All of the decisions are made at this level, so that makes us very fast. Our challenge now is to move from being a ... 		Web Page
0.8909 Shortening the Planning Cycle - Supply Chain Leader
... Additionally, the global supply chains of today's companies have increased risks and communications, often leading to high levels of redundant inventories, among other obstacles to efficiency and profitability. Considerable inefficiencies also exist in the strategic and tactical decision-making ... differentiated service levels and the inability to offer competitive prices. Operational excellence suffers as well from high investments in inventories, a poorly utilized asset base and significant expediting and waste. Recent technology advances have enabled a new generation of planning, which we ... exception dashboards, which required significant manual effort in understanding the root causes of the exceptions (such as short or late demand, inventory stock-outs, safety-stock violations and capacity shortages). New-generation solutions help planners diagnose the root causes of the exceptions ... 		Web Page
0.8909 i2 in the News - Supply Chain Leader
... Thomas, i2's senior vice president of product strategy and planning, is quoted in this article about latest release of i2's inventory optimization software. "Inventory decisions for life-cycle events are tough in today's supply chain...Our solution enables deep analysis of buying behaviour and ... a market upturn. Inventory: Getting more from less with inventory optimization By Bob Trebilcock Modern Materials Handling August 2009 Adeel Najmi, vice president of product strategy and planning for i2, is quoted in this article, which discusses how early adopters of inventory optimization ... improving service levels while reducing the amount of inventory in the supply chain. "It used to be that a company would do a one-time design to optimize where the factories and DCs were going to be located and what strategies they were going to use to meet demand," Najmi says. "In the last two ... 		Web Page
0.8792 The Lean Challenge in Demand-Driven Value Chains - Supply Chain Leader
The Lean Challenge in Demand-Driven Value Chains Material pull must be driven by capacity signals from downstream in addition to inventory replenishment signals. A May 2007 USA Today article entitled "Toyota's Success Pleases Proponents of 'Lean'" may have left some readers confused. On one hand, it ... While the key concepts surrounding lean have existed for more than 40 years, the bottom-line savings and operational performance--in terms of inventory turns or order-fulfillment performance--have been below target, especially in environments beyond simple make-to-replenish. Still, the concepts of ... enable quick response. But one would like to have a small number of kanbans at times of low demand to reduce inventory costs, since the number of kanbans is equal to the target inventory of finished parts. In reality, manufacturers need the flexibility to choose dynamically between large and small ... 		Web Page
0.8792 Cycle-Time Optimization - Column - Supply Chain Leader
... organizations around the world. In this new model—which requires retailers to assume the risks associated with raw materials, manufacturing and inventory—retailers must view each supply chain process as an opportunity to cut time and costs. Retailers need to realize that information sharing and ... the sourcing team can weigh the positive financial implications of manufacturing in large quantities against the costs associated with carrying inventory. If the sourcing team partners with a core group of suppliers, team members can also use this preliminary information to position multiple ... inventory utilization. Similarly, buyers can work with multiple raw-materials suppliers to allocate materials in the most timely and profitable manner. The private-label buying team can consider such factors as material costs and capacity levels to make more strategic decisions about acquiring raw ... 		Web Page
0.8789 What are the top priorities in supply chain management for your business? - Supply Chain Leader
... We don't want to overproduce; not just because of cost issues, but because of the implications for wasted energy and resources by having excess inventory. Over the coming year we will bring on board a new document management system we're calling WAX, for workflow automation express. This will become ... 		Web Page
0.8660 Enabling a decade of supply chain success at Deutsche Edelstahlwerke - Supply Chain Leader
... Edelstahlwerke was struggling to provide reliable due dates for its customers. It didn't have good visibility into its capacity levels or inventory and wanted to be able to manage production orders more effectively. In particular, the company faced problems with "moving bottlenecks" that occurred ... i2 Demand Fulfilment and i2 Material Allocator. Two years later, it deployed i2 solutions for forecasting (i2 Demand Planner) and Vendor Managed Inventory, and in 2007, it upgraded from i2 Demand Planner to i2 Demand Manager on the i2 Agile Business Process Platform. The i2 Agile Business Process ... planning Following its yearly business plan more closely Making more accurate promises to customers Reducing warehouse inventory by around 20 percent Reducing pre-material inventory by around 5 percent Improving delivery performance by up to 10 percent Integration creates competitive advantage ... 		Web Page
0.8658 Innovation Through People, Process and Technology - Supply Chain Leader
... call extreme performance. Let's take inventory as an example. We might ask, "How can a customer reduce its inventory by half?" Instead of contemplating moving from $100 million in inventory to $50 million, we suggest finding ways to achieve near-zero inventory—which would be considered extreme ... state helps us to understand with greater clarity the first principles and process changes required to support our goal—in this case, inventory reduction. When thinking about the processes required to effect such a step-level change in performance, we ask our people to think about what technologies ... than a few years." (Supply Chain Leader Interview, Spring 2006, pages 6-7.) Through this approach, Panasonic achieved increased revenue and inventory performance in a short time. While we know that profound change is not a short-term proposition, we also appreciate that early successes are important ... 		Web Page
0.8655 Perspective: 20 Years of Innovation at i2 - Supply Chain Leader
... plan and continue on to develop a master production plan, which enables you to issue purchase orders to suppliers. You factor in the inventory you have on hand, subtract it from what you think is your demand, and then figure out what you need to produce, generally on a weekly basis. Another way to ... this approach achieved a fair amount of supply chain discipline. The problem was, despite using this approach, companies found their inventory levels remained too high. The limitation of MRP was that the constraint calculation was sequential. First you calculated what your material needs were, then ... customer delivery to promise, because there was no visibility into supply availability or supplier activity. So manufacturers depended on having inventory on hand to keep their delivery promises. Around this time - the 1970s - the Just-in-Time movement to create what became known as lean ... 		Web Page
0.8655 Risk Management: New Technologies Help Identify and Mitigate Risks - Supply Chain Leader
... similar model based on gut-level projections. But on this second product, they missed the mark and ended up with a warehouse-yard full of unsold inventory that had to be liquidated at a loss. Demand risk also results from competitive pressures, weather-related events and macro-economic factors. With ... early spring or late winter inclement weather—even if only in certain regions—can wreak havoc on demand forecasts. This leads to excess inventory and mark-downs in areas where demand is unexpectedly low, while other product lines or regions with high demand may experience product shortages ... such as customs-clearance delays. As more supply chains stretch across the globe, the complexities increase and require additional buffers of inventory and time to offset the potential impact of unexpected disruptions. Consider the difference in complexity between a one-day domestic truckload ... 		Web Page
0.8655 Unlocking The Future: The New Analytics - Supply Chain Leader
(The Forrester Wave:™ "BI Reporting and Analysis Platforms, Q1 2006," by Keith Gile, with Kyle McNabb, Connie Moore and Lucy Fossner, February 8, 2006.) It's time for a new generation of supply chain analytics. For more information, contact supply_chain_leader@i2.com. 		Web Page
0.8512 Case Studies - Supply Chain Leader
Case Studies --- Latest Issue Continental Tire Speeds Planning Cycles and Inventory Turns Demand planning and inventory optimization maximize service and cut costs Continental Corporation is the fifth-largest automotive supplier in the world, with extensive know-how in tire and brake technology ... Kadlecek A major semiconductor manufacturer wanted to sharply increase its on-time delivery to customer-request dates, without increasing inventory. i2 Inventory Optimization provided a flexible, demand-driven approach. When a major electronics retailer realized its disconnect between Purchasing and ... 		Web Page
0.8511 Proactive Planning for Demand Uncertainty
... with its visionary customers—has been developing innovative solutions such as i2 Sales and Operations Management, i2 Scenario Manager and i2 Inventory Optimization. In this article, Blake Johnson of Stanford University offers his perspective on this important issue. The current economic environment ... are deterministic—a legacy from a more predictable era. This disconnect is visible in operational performance on a day-to-day basis—in excess inventory, late deliveries, missed market opportunities and utilized assets—and in the financial performance this operational performance drives. The toll on ... Inability to quantify risks. Few companies have processes to quantify their key risks. While short-term demand variability is analyzed to set inventory buffers, the key planning decisions with the big dollar impact—the sourcing and capacity decisions identified above—are based on best-guess ... 		Web Page
0.8511 Inside i2: Winners of the Ken Sharma Award for Excellence - Supply Chain Leader - Issue 2
... decreased inventory levels. "Using i2 solutions, VF operates a truly demanddriven supply chain," Sidhu said. ADTRAN wins the high-tech industry award ADTRAN implemented i2 solutions to decrease excess inventory and to free up working capital. As a result, the company reduced its inventory by more ... percent, decreased its planning cycle from five days to less than one day and benefited from daily inventory feeds from its contract manufacturers. "This allows ADTRAN to have complete visibility into its supply chain to determine the best strategies to accommodate customer demand,"said Tom Dadmun ... planning and reporting across the company's sales information systems. NPIL has improved forecast accuracy by 20 percent and reduced material inventories by nearly 30 percent as a result of using i2 solutions. It has synchronized material planning with capacity manufacturing, created more efficient ... 		Web Page
0.8510 Incitec Pivot Fertilisers adds speed and accuracy to supply chain planning - Supply Chain Leader
... clear objectives in retooling their supply chain systems. They hoped to reduce their working capital requirements and to optimize fertilizer inventory during the peak Australian growing seasons. The company wanted to control both incoming and outgoing freight costs, to balance domestic and ... diverse supply chain systems and technologies. "There were significant drivers pushing us to improve supply chain management, from reducing our inventory and related working capital requirements, minimizing stock outs, and better managing inbound and outbound freight costs," says Clatworthy. "But ... effects of issues when they do occur. As a result of these and other related efforts, Incitec Pivot has achieved significant reductions in both inventory levels and land freight costs. According to Clatworthy, the combination of the powerful statistical capabilities of Demand Planner and the ... 		Web Page
0.8507 Managing Supply Chain Disruption with Continuous Design - Supply Chain Leader
... define the future scope of your facilities and the shape of your distribution network, as well as include detailed plans focused on sourcing, inventory, new products and staffing levels. Of course, this supply chain design will be based on your organization's projections about overall and regional ... supply chain design process has become much more complex. Are you allowing enough lead time to ship products from around the world? Is product inventory optimized to match demand and distribution in every local market? With so many suppliers and customers to consider—often spread across the globe ... plan. Inventory levels, which need to be continuously optimized against long-term business objectives, changing market conditions and supply constraints—as well as emergencies like customer bankruptcies. In the event of such contingencies, businesses will need to define which inventories to carry ... 		Web Page
0.8351 Technology - Supply Chain Leader
... The Beauty of Business Content Libraries by Pallab Chatterjee The New Analytics by Jim Caudill and Rajat Bhargav Inventory Optimization: Taking an Optimized Approach to Inventory Mangement by Adeel Najmi and Lee Wilwerding Technology Update: Why Multi-Platform Strategies Are Good for Business by ... 		Web Page
0.8351 The Supply Chain Opportunity in a Challenging Economy
... that provides a quick return on investment and long-term savings. Technology implementations that streamline manufacturing operations, optimize inventory, and focus on increasing cash through improved asset utilization and enhanced transportation management can enable your business to maneuver ... provide the greatest return on investment in the shortest period of time. For instance, a large semiconductor company recently completed an i2 inventory optimization implementation delivered in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Not only was the implementation 50 percent faster than a more ... scenarios—a critical process during these turbulent economic times. Another key outcome is that the customer has moved from a 100 percent manual inventory review to a prioritized exception-based process, reducing end-to-end targets planning, review and approval times by 40 percent. Solutions like ... 		Web Page
0.8351 Total Channel Management Demands a Dynamic Partnership - Supply Chain Leader
... the supplier increases its sales by ensuring its products are in the right place at the right time. The supplier decides how many weeks of inventory will be carried, in what locations, and how to write the orders to meet its needs and those of the retailer. By moving out of a reactive mode ... shifts the tactical aspects of the relationship to the supplier. What's in it for the retailers? Big-box retailers typically carry 6-8 weeks of inventory because they know they are going to make mistakes. They don't spend a lot of time putting the right product in the right place because they can ... supplier is tightly controlling inventory and assuring that sales will be maximized by putting the right product in the right place, at the right time. In addition, end-of-life expense becomes much less of an issue, due to demand shaping and depleting inventory in a systematized manner. Proving the ... 		Web Page
0.8351 Supply Chain Leader Issue 3 - About - Supply Chain Management - i2
... studies JFE Group: Innovation and Agility Boost World’s Third-Largest Steelmaker, by John Kadlecek Download Columns Inventory Optimization: Taking an Optimized Approach to Inventory Management, by Adeel Najmi and Lee Wilwerding Download Transportation Management: Getting Onboard with Collaborative ... 		Web Page
0.8351 Big is Beautiful at Panasonic - Supply Chain Leader
Can the user show home movies and still photographs on the screen? What's at the root of the fascination with big-screen displays? You can only fit 150 screens in a 53-foot semi, for example. 		Web Page
0.8351 Electronics Retailer Case Study - Supply Chain Leader
... dissatisfaction was immeasurable. The disconnect was forcing the company to order and stock more inventory "just-in-case," and to unnecessarily expedite shipping when there was inventory already available. A study on logistics collaboration showed that, on average, expedited freight comprises one ... accomplish this, i2 designed a solution using i2 Supply Chain Visibility, a comprehensive business application that makes orders, shipments and inventory visible from a central interface. The application correlates supply chain activities with out-of-bounds conditions that need action. And because ... and pre-paid fulfillment processes. The platform enabled near real-time monitoring across the supply chain, supporting the business needs of the inventory, logistics and distribution-center operations. A large library of predefined events that cover the purchase order, load and advance-ship-notice ... 		Web Page
0.8351 A Platform for the Future - Supply Chain Leader
Amassive reshaping of the global business landscape is under way, driven by the combination of three key forces: According to Gartner, “i2 is the only vendor in the application market—not just the SCM market—that has all of the architectural components needed to provide BPP (business process platform) capabilities to users.” (“Vendor Rating: i2 Technologies Is Positioned for Supply Chain Leadership,” 11 August, 2005.) To enhance business competitiveness, organizations need a flexible system ... 		Web Page
0.8351 Articles by Industry - Supply Chain Leader
... Will Change Supply Chain Management by Michael Levi, Jim Caudill The New Analytics by Jim Caudill and Rajat Bhargav Inventory Optimization: Taking an Optimized Approach to Inventory Mangement by Adeel Najmi and Lee Wilwerding Why Multi-Platform Strategies Are Good for Business by Aditya Srivastava ... and Defense Bell Helicopter Redesigns its SIOP Process by John Kadlecek back to top Automotive Continental Tire Speeds Planning Cycles and Inventory Turns by Lauren Bossers Cooper Tire Rolls Out New Systems for Better Demand Fulfillment by Lauren Bossers Inside Supply Chain Globalization at GM ... and Venky Nayar The "Lean" Challenge in Demand-Driven Value Chains by Aamer Rehman, Kelly Thomas Continental Tire Speeds Planning Cycles and Inventory Turns by Lauren Bossers back to top Process Cementos Argos Improves Profit Margins and Customer Service with New Strategic Planning by Lauren Bossers ... 		Web Page
0.8347 i2 and the i2 User Group Announce Ken Sharma Awards of Excellence Finalists
... Corporation is the world's leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances. Whirlpool sought to improve forecast errors to enable inventory reductions and service-level improvements and to streamline and document forecasting processes that drive improved communications and sales and ... inventories and increase throughput. Since implementing a variety of i2 solutions to address advanced order planning and sales and operations planning, Essar Steel has increased forecast accuracy for domestic contract customers by nearly 30 percent. The company has reduced work-in-process inventory ... shorted demands in the final plan has been reduced significantly. Implementation of the total project has contributed to IPL reducing year-end inventory levels in excess of US$28million and reducing year-to-date land freight cost by US$1.4 million. Kimberly-Clark, a leading global health and hygiene ... 		Web Page
0.8347 i2 and the i2 User Group Announce Ken Sharma Awards of Excellence - Inside i2 - Supply Chain Leader
... sells direct through its own web site, sprint.com. With so many channels in play, Sprint was challenged to reduce costs by decreasing overall inventory while also maintaining or improving service levels and field sales operations. Working together with i2, Sprint began to improve its key business ... solutions also promote supplier collaboration while enabling comprehensive reporting on specific key metrics. As a result, Sprint has reduced inventories at both the enterprise and retail store level while also increasing service levels. In addition, the improved business processes have enabled ... with i2 enabled the company to bring inventory distribution and sales velocity into alignment, and to improve forecast accuracy and in-stock ratios for retailers who carry Panasonic products. As a result, the company was able to position the right inventory at the right place, at the right time, as ... 		Web Page
0.8347 The Case for Knowledge Process Outsourcing - Supply Chain Leader
... only as long as the phone is produced. In the latter case, the shorter product life cycle for the custom component requires effective order and inventory management to maximize profit. In a quickly changing scenario, businesses often rely on ad hoc spreadsheets that cannot handle either the volume ... As they endeavor to satisfy their customers, they are delivering outcomes, not just software products. Whether it's demand management, inventory optimization, channel management, forecast optimization or point-of-sale-based replenishment, leading-edge supply chain service providers offer such ... 		Web Page
0.8347 Customer-Centric Approach Drives Global Growth for Tata Steel - Supply Chain Leader
... issues Tata wanted its process reengineering and IT implementation to address included: Optimizing inventory investment, including raw materials, work-in-process and finished inventories Maximizing the value of supplier relationships Improving the accuracy of price and volume forecasts Determining ... 		Web Page
0.8347 Taking Collaboration with Suppliers s Step Further - Supply Chain Leader
... quickly to demand changes by sharing this information with key suppliers immediately, thereby decreasing the likelihood of stockouts and excess inventory. In return, suppliers can give advance notice of product shortfalls, delivery delays and other performance issues. Because trading partners share ... eliminated, since everyone shares the same information and agenda. Purchase orders are more accurate, inventory levels can be minimized, service levels and delivery performance improve dramatically, and, when the unexpected does occur, the entire supply chain can react with greater responsiveness ... promotions with a high degree of confidence that phones will be available, and can plan for the unexpected far in advance. Inventory levels have also been optimized, ensuring that retail customers are neither starved for product nor over-inventoried at any given time. Implementing global business ... 		Web Page
0.8347 Four Megatrends That Will Change Supply Chain Management - Supply Chain Leader
The likely ramifications of globalization for supply chain management are: " (Innovation Networks: Global Progress Report 2006, Forrester Research, Inc., June 2006). We are witnesses to an entirely new generation of technology-based global commerce in today's "perfect storm" of demographic and technological shifts: 		Web Page
0.8347 Uncovering the True Costs of Global Sourcing - Supply Chain Leader
... inventory and risk variables, as shown here. The total-landed-cost sourcing analysis and decision loop starts from a definition of cost targets and sourcing constraints and automates data management and cleansing of the various cost, transportation, lead time, inventory, service level, variability ... and network data. Then network, inventory and transportation optimizers analyze the data to arrive at alternatives for decision making. Various scenarios may be composed and executed in an iterative fashion. Once the scenarios are analyzed along with part pricing, decisions can be made in alignment ... extended by your company and/or your partners. The TLC solution leverages services from i2 best-in-class components—Transportation Planner and Inventory Optimizer—and couples them with the Strategic Sourcing component for source selection and award. ABPP provides the supply chain data model and the ... 		Web Page
0.8347 Bell Helicopter Redesigns Its SIOP Process - Supply Chain Leader
Bell Helicopter Redesigns Its SIOP Process by John Kadlecek The Sales Inventory Operations Planning (SIOP) process that hums along today at Bell Helicopter serves as a testament to how i2 tools and practices can improve a company's profitability and ability to capitalize on growth opportunities ... chain capable of delivering a wide variety of parts and materials, typically in relatively small volumes, but on a timetable that optimized both inventory efficiency and customer-delivery schedules. Bell recognized that it needed to improve manufacturing scheduling and planning, especially the ... There was no way we could quickly know how operations were aligned to the financial plan.We had to learn the rules of the road of sales inventory operations planning. But we have learned what questions to ask and how to work in a collaborative environment." Bell realized it had to reorganize to more ... 		Web Page
0.8169 Getting Greener Together
... the deregulation of trucking nearly 30 years ago. Both manufacturers and retailers are working to reduce costly on-site inventory through the use of just-in-time (JIT) inventory systems that typically require trucks for smaller, more frequent and more reliable deliveries. Meanwhile, many warehousing ... 		Web Page
0.8169 Managing Supply Chain Disruption with Continuous Design - Supply Chain Leader
Ability to understand the impact of demand, supply and product mix decisions on revenue and margin through scenario creation and comparison A business content library is an electronic library that contains XML-based workflow definitions and process playbooks that can be stored, retrieved, modified and executed as needed Ability to provide a structured data management environment along with the flexibility of common spreadsheet applications, such Microsoft ® Excel 		Web Page
0.8169 News Briefs - Supply Chain Leader
... i2 solutions enable companies to reach the best throughput and customer service at the lowest inventory level and cost. Burt's Bees is reaping benefits through more effective working inventory, higher throughput, higher on-time delivery rates, improved customer service levels and lower manufacturing ... display superior supply chain performance, capabilities and leadership. The analysis takes basic public data as a foundation—return on assets, inventory turns and growth—and considers expert and peer assessments of the future leadership potential of each company. Twenty of the companies ranked in ... 		Web Page
0.8169 Inside i2: Our Innovation, Your Results - Supply Chain Leader
... the manufacturer suffered from misaligned inventory, stock-out problems, and dead inventory in slow markets. Sales and profits were weak, and relations with key retailers were strained.With the visibility provided by i2 solutions, inventory distribution is now aligned with consumption, and product ... 		Web Page
0.8169 Short Product Life Cycles Demand Innovation Throughout the Business - Supply Chain Leader
... new product, let alone of setting and achieving longterm strategic goals. They make enormous investments in design, tooling, manufacturing and inventory, often without a well-defined plan for maximizing profitability over the entire product life cycle. Often, the life cycle ends before the ... 		Web Page
0.8169 Technology Update - Why Multi-Platform Strategies Are Good for Business
... industry-specific customization for such vital functions as order management, inventory management and distribution management. How? In this case, the workflow pulls order information from SAP R/3, while the inventory and shipment information comes from a legacy system built in house. The workflow ... in SAP NetWeaver, since the source of the data is SAP R/3. The workflow to pull inventory and shipment information is written in i2 ABPP, utilizing the IBM WebSphere® MQ series messaging system to integrate an in-house legacy system. The workflow to collect all of this information, to raise ... 		Web Page
0.8169 Training for the Future - Supply Chain Leader
... art and science of supply chain management. Large companies are finding that it is not sufficient to assume that engineering, manufacturing or inventory managers will assimilate the skills needed to organize the agile and lean supply chains demanded by mass customization and globalization. They ... you find yourself in. In relation to all, MIT Sloan provides a mix of skills, theory and experience—not just functional specifics such as inventory optimization and transportation control. The school's technology courses, like those in many other schools, strive to cover everything from the ... 		Web Page
0.8169 How Innovative is your Supply Chain? - Supply Chain Leader
... planned versus actual supply chain performance Continually shaping demand by dynamically adjusting price configurations Providing global inventory visibility Leveraging execution data in a real-time planning environment Utilizing transportation and logistics more broadly in supply chain planning ... in production processes. The new mandate is to help companies react to demand without increasing capacity or inventory. We used to say that information would replace inventory, and at the time—10 or so years ago—it seemed like a pipe dream. But now industry leaders are showing it can be done, by ... 		Web Page
0.8169 Dell 2.0: Becoming the Customers Trusted Adviser - Supply Chain Leader
Dell 2.0: Becoming the Customer's Trusted Adviser Is there an absolute or theoretical limit in cycle time? And today it's taking us three days.Why isn't it 63 minutes? 		Web Page
0.8169 What Impact Will Radio Frequency Id Have on Supply Chain Management? - Supply Chain Leader
... communications system, suppliers have visibility not only into RFID data but also into many other data points and information—such as sales and inventory data at each store—about their products. Many are using the data, but in different ways, depending on the business problem they are trying to ... centers to manage inventory. Other retailers are following that lead. Instead of relying on point-of-sale data, RFID gives these companies visibility from the shelf to their distribution center, even back to some suppliers, so they can better manage their inventory and their in-transit merchandise ... 		Web Page
0.8169 Supply Chain Leader - Articles by Category
Articles by Category --- Case Studies Continental Tire Speeds Planning Cycles and Inventory Turns by Lauren Bossers Cementos Argos Improves Profit Margins and Customer Service with New Strategic Planning by Lauren Bossers Meeting (and Exceeding) Customer Expectations at Teich AG by Jon Kemp Cooper ... The Beauty of Business Content Libraries by Pallab Chatterjee The New Analytics by Jim Caudill and Rajat Bhargav Inventory Optimization: Taking an Optimized Approach to Inventory Mangement by Adeel Najmi and Lee Wilwerding Technology Update: Why Multi-Platform Strategies Are Good for Business by ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Opinion - Supply Chain Leader
... Supply Chain? by Guy Courtin 20 Years of Innovation at i2 by Sanjiv Sidhu Read More in the Archives Supply Chain Leader Virtual Roundtable Inventory Optimization Ramesh Raj, Enterprise Architect, Global Supply Chain, Dell Noha Tohamy, Vice President, Head of Research, AMR Research Adeel Najmi, Vice ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Private-Label Sourcing: What's Next After China? - Cover Story - Supply Chain Leader
... with China, Western retailers have tried to weather this challenging economic situation by managing the few costs they can control —such as inventory management—and cutting their own profit margins drastically, since the soft U.S. economy will not tolerate retail price increases for most goods. But ... parameters. Total landed product costs include obvious expenses such as raw materials, energy, labor, transportation, distribution, handling and inventory holding. But less obvious cost factors—such as the impact of currency exchange rates, legal and government regulations, levies and taxes—must ... 		Web Page
0.7967 How to Get Supply Chain Value Fast - Supply Chain Leader
... For example, a business optimization center can analyze pointof- sale data, determine sell-through patterns and make recommendations on inventory positioning and shipments, without ever having to install software at the customer site. This capability can be up and delivering value in less than three ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Supply Chain Leader - Issue 5 -Measuring Performance Across the Value Chain
... performance management (CPM) effort in place, supported by dashboards and scorecards that tracked key business metrics such as product quality, inventory levels and delivery times. Today, packaged CPM solutions and in-house efforts have created real financial benefits. But the majority of CPM ... on achieving cash-collection goals. Operations managers may be rewarded for managing at full capacity, when they should be striving to maximize inventory turns. Functional targets and rewards should always support the larger corporate strategy, but in reality they may actually work against it. One ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Meeting and Exceeding Customer Expectations at Teich AG - Supply Chain Leader
... through improved material routing and capacity management Planning and scheduling synchronization Reduced deviations in planning, scheduling, inventory and costs Improved visibility and collaboration between planning and production Reduced manual-coordination requirements Expectations at Teich AG ... Planners and schedulers can utilize Factory Planner to intelligently optimize the performance of a manufacturing facility to reduce lead times, inventory and operating costs while improving throughput and due-date performance. Extensive modeling capabilities allow buyers to more efficiently forecast ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Using Order Management to Get Closer to Your Customers - Supply Chain Leader
... to drive greater speed and efficiency throughout their supply chains. Those efforts have yielded many positive results, from accelerated inventory turnover to reduced waste and improved bottom-line profits. But for too many companies, those inward-looking efforts have also led to a loss of focus on ... system begins by introducing standardization and consolidation. Those basic changes drive down costs while helping companies accelerate inventory turn, optimize the use of assets and boost the productivity of service associates. More efficient fulfillment shortens the product development and ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Supply Chain Leader
... But for Suppliers Too by Mohan Balachandran and Jim Morganstern Retailers’ new emphasis on inventory at the shelf level adds a new level of customer service. Essentially, it’s vendor-managed inventory—though not at the distribution center. Managing Supply Chains in High-Growth Environments by ... 		Web Page
0.7967 The New Multiplex Theater for Supply Chain Management - Supply Chain Leader
... a lot of information latency, this new generation creates a virtual zero-latency information environment. Let's look at a real-world example: inventory optimization. Companies base their entire optimization on certain policies and parameters, and these are used for different components. But maybe ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Creating Virtual Verticality in Horizontal Supply Chains - Supply Chain Leader
... first time to compute material requirements based on what was needed to achieve sales forecasts. Just-in-time inventory further helped organizations offload assets and decrease inventory. The expanded use of electronic data interchange (EDI) helped shorten cycle time even more by integrating trading ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Supply Chain Leader magazine
... Cycle by Gaurang Pandya, Hemant Pariawala and Aditya Srivastava The New Analytics by Jim Caudill and Rajat Bhargav Inventory Optimization: Taking an Optimized Approach to Inventory Management by Adeel Najmi and Lee Wilwerding Transportation Management: Getting Onboard with Collaborative Capacity ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Supply Chain Leader - Case Studies
... MasterBrand Cabinets Gains Transportation Visibility and Efficiency with i2 FreightMatrix Continental Tire Speeds Planning Cycles and Inventory Turns Cementos Argos Improves Profit Margins and Customer Service with New Strategic Planning Cooper Tire Rolls Out New Systems for Better Demand ... 		Web Page
0.7961 Improving Supply Chain Responsiveness at Altera - Supply Chain Leader
... developed especially for the semiconductor industry. Using data from an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and a work-in-process (WIP) inventory tracking system, the solution generates daily execution plans, guiding off-shore facilities what to assemble and test. i2 solutions also output ... chain management at Altera. "i2 continues to provide Altera with an increased ability to quickly identify the impact of demand changes to inventories and availability. Required changes can be made daily, if needed, to adjust builds and communicate order fulfillment issues early to our distributors ... 		Web Page
0.7961 Supply Chain Leader Issue 1 - About i2 - Supply Chain Management - i2
... studies A major semiconductor manufacturer wanted to sharply increase its on-time delivery to customer-request dates, without increasing inventory. i2 Inventory Optimization provided a flexible, demand-driven approach. When a major electronics retailer realized its disconnect between Purchasing and ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Supply Chain Leader
... i2 solutions? No Yes (if yes, please answer below) Please choose from the solutions below: Supply Management Plan Management Retail Management Inventory Management Logistics Management Manufacturing Management Channel Management Consulting Services Reporting Management Infrastructure Management ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Private-Label Sourcing: What's Next After China? - Cover Story - Supply Chain Leader
... with Continuous Change by Samir Bhargava and Lalith Vadlamannati PDF (422K) Case Study: Continental Tire Speeds Planning Cycles and Inventory Turns by Lauren Bossers PDF (291K) Increase Profitability by Managing Local Market Assortments Focus by Ijaz Parpia and Sai Buddhavarapu PDF (227K) Lenovo ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Increase Profitability by Managing Local Market Assortments - Focus - Supply Chain Leader
... and explore new opportunities that will position them to compete even more strongly as the economy recovers. Innovations in pricing, sourcing, inventory management and assortment management are being funded with scarce capital resources. And for good reason: History shows that sector leaders can win ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Minimizing Risk During SCM Implementations - Issue 6 - Supply Chain Leader
... For example, in 2001 a much-publicized supply chain breakdown involving Cisco and a third-party solutions provider cost Cisco $2.2 billion in inventory write-downs—the largest loss of its kind in business history. In hundreds of technology implementations, i2 has gathered a wealth of risk-mitigation ... 		Web Page
0.7742 The Power of Many: User Groups Spur Professional Growth, Stronger Realtionships with Vendors - Supply Chain Leader
... Ravi Vancheeswaran. "With the Semiconductor Special Interest Group, we have been able to solve some really difficult problems related to inventory optimization and scenario planning. Our influence is stronger when we speak with a singular voice as a user community, giving us a greater power of ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Overcoming the New Demand Uncertainty - Supply Chain Leader
... manage demand uncertainty. Armed with an enterprise-wide view and a new sense of agility, supply chain managers can honor their traditional inventory and velocity targets, while also minimizing the costs associated with expedited shipments. Make your supplier your partner--really There is yet ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Supply Chain Leader - Issue 4 - Short Product Life Cycles Demand Innovation Throughout the Business
Managing Supply Chains in High-Growth Environments (See risk articles on pages 36 and 39.) Maximizing your investment in growth markets 		Web Page
0.7742 Transportation Management: Getting Onboard with Collaborative Capacity Planning
... further pushed carriers to their limits. The conflicting objectives of carriers and shippers exacerbate the problems. Motivated by factors like inventory positions and turns, shippers are driven to shrink lead times and condense their peaks. Carriers, on the other hand, would prefer more ample lead ... 		Web Page
0.7742 The Beauty of Business Content Libraries - Supply Chain Leader
... - act" cycles, businesses are able to handle plan versus execution gaps on a daily basis. By shaping demand to match supply, they can reduce inventory and increase customer satisfaction, helping the bottom line. Shortcomings of some systems While many vendors are delivering products that implement ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Supply Chain Study Shows Impact of Complexity - Supply Chain Leader
... chain complexity drivers is important to them because such management enables them to achieve: Cost savings Improved on-time delivery Reduced inventory and work in process Quality However, there is a significant gap between what companies perceive as important complexity-management practices and ... 		Web Page
0.7742 S&OP Best Practices Enable Consistent Profitability - Supply Chain Leader
" (The Sales and Operations Planning Benchmark Report: Leveraging S&OP for Competitive Advantage, Aberdeen Group, Inc., June 2004.) Establishing process playbooks to deal with supply or demand “upsets," thus sensing and shaping supply and demand Enabling joint decision making on planning and execution, analyzing the effects of trade-offs such as promotion versus logistics costs and production versus warehousing costs 		Web Page
0.7742 Supplier Relationship Management - Multi-Tier Sourcing Practices for Commodities
... is accepted that this price actually incorporates a number of factors, such as base material cost, transportation cost, material handling cost, inventory handling cost, etc. In a strategic supplier relationship, the trading partners collaborate to bring the true cost down. Hence, they are willing to ... 		Web Page
0.7742 xBeyond Business: American Red Cross Enlists Aid from Aidmatrix - Supply Chain Leader
... of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is working with Aidmatrix now to create a warehouse system that will enable decision-making based on inventory at various warehouses during disasters. As Keith Thode, Aidmatrix chief operating officer, explains, "We configured the Aidmatrix platform for donor ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Supply Chain Leader - Issue 2 - Supply Chain Management - i2
... 5 Keys to Success in Advanced Retail Planning by Ajay Chidrawar, Adam Hatch and Chuck Kramer Keeping the right product mix on hand while keeping inventory low is a balancing act with little margin for error. Here are five ways to excel. Download Case studies Bell Helicopter Redesigns its SIOP ... 		Web Page
0.7742 What's on the Horizon? - Supply Chain Leader
... Today's collaborative supply chains are high velocity. End-to-end visibility and strong enterprise-spanning business processes accelerate inventory management, product introduction and ordering and fulfillment cycles, for increased competitiveness throughout the chain. As collaborative supply chains ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Beyond Business - Supply Chain Leader
... as an extension of their supply chain. "We show manufacturers the benefit that can come from donating their distressed and obsolete or surplus inventory to aid efforts," says Aidmatrix CTO and COO Keith Thode. How so? "When we partner with a company, and Kraft is a good example, we help them ... 		Web Page