i2 Supply Chain Visibility

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i2 Supply Chain Visibility

Today’s global business environment is more demanding and fast-paced than ever before. Companies are delivering increasingly complex products—with shorter lifecycles and lead times—to customers demanding faster results and more responsive service. Globalization and outsourcing have added to the complexity, resulting in more diversified supply chains. The number of supply chain partners, as well as the amount of geographic dispersion, has increased dramatically as a result.

"Siloed" departments, systems, and partnerships can severely limit a company’s ability to view material throughout the supply chain. To ensure that their order-to-delivery performance is not impacted, companies need to have greater coordination and visibility into the material flow across the supply chain.

Increase Global Visibility

Now with i2 Supply Chain Visibility,^TM companies have access to global visibility into all of their critical supply chain activities and partnerships.

This proven solution allows organizations to respond more quickly and effectively to a wide range of unplanned and potentially disruptive supply and demand events. Supply-related events can include production bottlenecks, fulfillment delays such as port strikes and customs delays, and supplier shortages. Demand-side events might include customer orders that are greater than forecasts or changes to orders that have already been placed.

i2 Supply Chain Visibility is designed to manage these events, assess their impact, and orchestrate a rapid and practical resolution while providing a unified view of the supply chain. The solution can also incorporate packaged business process packs for replenishment, fulfillment, and manufacturing, and these packages can be configured to meet customer-specific requirements.

i2 Supply Chain Visibility also enables companies to close the loop between traditional planning and execution processes. This market-proven solution can help companies better understand orders, inventory, and logistics data.

Powerful Functionality

This solution incorporates pre-built workflows that integrate data across order management, warehouse management, logistics, and inventory applications for the flow of both domestic and international goods. A series of predefined, extensible events and exceptions support each workflow and a visual “studio” allows workflows and events to be extended, configured, and customized to meet specific enterprise requirements. i2 Supply Chain Visibility delivers a robust technology that is scalable and extensible, and that operates smoothly in a distributed computing environment.

Extensive Capabilities

Inbound and outbound tracking of order, inventory, and logistics flows
Domestic and international flows that track multi-leg and multi-modal shipments
Visibility into exceptions and events across orders, inventory, and shipments
Role-based views for buyers, suppliers, analysts, and 3PL vendors
High degree of permissibility and privacy controls
Track-and-trace inventory across multiple locations
Configurable event detection mechanism and customizable event management workflows
Event chaining such as linking of related events, audit trails, context-based problem prioritization and extensive notification options including e-mail, e-mail digest, pagers, and cell phones available
Calendars, internationalization (i18n), and multi-time zone support enabled
Integration to underlying applications for intelligent resolution and to prevent event recurrence
Root-cause, event trend, and performance analysis capabilities
Rich event library with over 100+ out-of-box events supported
Fast, web-based supplier enablement and transaction support