The Adexa Enterprise Global Planning System (eGPS) is a
suite of eleven integrated solutions. It delivers an enterprise business
planning solution encompassing supply chain planning, event and enterprise
performance management, and intelligent collaboration. Adexa
gives a local and global view of supply and demand requirements and constraints,
and provides insights for optimization. Event management capabilities issues
alerts about issues through KPI reports, alerts, and messages.
eGPS business solutions include corporate planning; supplier
management; event management and analytics; order fulfillment; order life cycle
planning; supply chain planning; factory planning and scheduling; product life
cycle; collaborative demand and supply planning; sales; and inventory and
operations planning.
For more information, see the product web page:
http://www.adexa.com/solutions/solutions.asp
or
http://www.adexa.com/
Zemeter Demand Planner helps planning, forecasting, sales, and operations
arrive at a single set of numbers, so everyone is managing from the same set of
data. Zemeter facilitates ease of use and minimizes the effort required to
regularly contribute to a demand plan. Zemeter does the
up-front work by providing a baseline forecast in views that are meaningful to
the various users. The product provides both a reporting and performance engine,
with online analytical processing (OLAP) functionality that helps draw the
team’s attention to areas costing the company money due to lost sales and
unprofitable decisions. Zemeter enhances the timeliness and
accuracy of dynamic collaborative demand planning. In addition to Demand
Planner, the product modules include Business Analyst, Inventory Planner, Supply
Planner, Finite Scheduler, Network Optimizer, Knowledge Repository, and the
prepackaged, streamlined Zemeter S&OP product for small to midsized
manufacturers. Zemeter modules run on an easy-to-use Microsoft platform, and
provide the same intuitive Outlook and Excel interfaces.
SCC offices are located in Wilmington, Delaware (US) and Antwepen
(Belgium).
For more information, visit the company’s web site
http://www.supplychain.com
or the product homepage
http://www.supplychain.com/index.php?q=zemeter-overview
Demand Solutions is a system of applications designed to meet the needs of
supply chain planning--from customer collaboration to supplier collaboration.
The system includes forecasting, replenishment planning, store level
replenishment planning, sales and operations planning, rough-cut capacity
planning, VMI, as well as generic interface software. Demand Solutions can boast
over 2000 locations installed in 67 countries, in virtually every type of
manufacturing and distribution company.
For more information, visit the company's web site
http://www.demandsolutions.com/
Cambian C/3 provides 4 key capabilities: (1) Distributed Multi-Channel Order Fulfillment with customer-specific visibility into your product catalog and product availability, with automated order capture, commitment, and fulfillment; (2) Consensus-Based Demand Forecasting including automated collection, aggregation, and review of customer demand forecasts, with integration to decision support tools and historical records, as well as automated generation of replenishment plans; (3) Multi-Mode Replenishment with customer-specific visibility into distributed inventories, including consigned and in-transit inventories, with control and automation of replenishment transactions; (4) Multi-Channel Sourcing including catalog aggregation across multiple suppliers, sharing of materials requirements based on automated bill of material explosion, and automated order placement and fulfillment.
Demantra offers five distinct planning solutions:
The Demantre Demand Planning Solution includes
read-write multidimensional data modeling to create data hierarchies
and offer one-number planning.
IMA Visual Demand Forecasting is designed to provide insight into aspects of demand forecasting, budgeting, performance monitoring, promotion control and margin analysis.
RiverOne delivers all its solutions through INTERACTIVE, the complete Supply Chain Control System. INTERACTIVE manages all supply-chain “units of currency” including: forecast, inventory, orders, invoices, BOMs, and performance metrics, and stores this data on a unified transactional database.
CatalystCommand Inventory Optimization and CatalystCommand Demand Management leverage data from existing ERP, transaction and POS systems to provide advanced functionality in the form of demand forecasting, automated supply analysis, inventory modeling, replenishment and distribution.
Oracle Demand Planning enables real time collaboration
across departments (sales, marketing, finance, and production) and customers in
order to create demand forecasts.
The Lawson M3 Supply Chain Planning
application is a set of modules designed to provide
forecasting, planning, and scheduling for manufacturing and distribution companies.
Oracle Demand Planning enables real time collaboration
across departments (sales, marketing, finance, and production) and customers in
order to create demand forecasts.
Oracle Demand Planning enables real time collaboration
across departments (sales, marketing, finance, and production) and customers in
order to create demand forecasts.
PSI Planner is a supply chain planning system designed for Windows operating systems. It features integrated sales forecasting, distribution requirements planning, material requirements planning, and master production scheduling modules.
QAD Enterprise Applications is a complete suite of products with functionality that addresses the needs of single-site and multinational organizations.
RockySoft's Web-based inventoy management modules for distribution and manufacturing include Active Inventory Manager, Demand Management, Demand Collaboration Portal, Economic Order Manager, Requirements Planner, Capable to Promise, Supplier Portal, and Vendor Managed Inventory.
SAP SCM 4.0 is the one solution platform that offers packaged application capabilities that grow with your organization, support your business requirements, and transform traditional supply chains into adaptive supply chain networks.
The Skyway Direct Procurement Unification (DPU) suite bridges data across the enterprise. Skyway's DPU gives the enterprise consolidated visibility and control over its supply chain.
Sockeye’s Collaborative Application Framework (CAF) is an
XML-based, J2EE-compliant, service-oriented architecture that provides a
platform for key supply chain functions such as multi-tier supply chain
modeling, what-if analysis, key performance indicators and reports, distribution
of real-time information, and exception management.
The TrueDemand product includes the following components:
Logistics analytics: the solution looks at inbound supply chain analytics at the
stock-keeping unit (SKU) and location level, including product lead times, days-of-sales,
cycle times, dwell times and turnover rates, and inbound service levels.
Logility Voyager Solutions is a fully integrated, comprehensive value chain solution suite. Voyager Solution components provide the capabilities needed to power collaborative supply chains.
WaerLinx™ is "pull" management software that optimizes the receipt, storage, and issuing of direct-to-line replenishment of components into manufacturing and distribution centers by linking the suppliers directly with the point of use.
Epicor Enterprise delivers financials, budgeting,
distribution, manufacturing, sales and marketing, business intelligence, and customer
service solutions in a common integrated suite
of applications.
Changing business requirements have forced supply chain execution (SCE) vendors to expand via add-on modules. Seeing this upward push from the SCE vendors, enterprise resource planning vendors are now pushing downward and including SCE modules within their solutions.
Olin Thompson and P.J. Jakovljevic - December 24, 2007
Due to the inherent challenges of the industry, most chemical companies are still unable to profitably respond to highly variable demand, or to execute predictable product supply strategies.
The software as a service (SaaS) delivery model is here to stay, and most vendors have noticed. Recently, the endorsement for SaaS in the realm of manufacturing enterprise resource planning has come from a veteran vendor and SaaS pioneer.
This article examines the organizational fit of radio frequency identification (RFID) and its technology’s basic mechanics. Its prohibitive costs often account for the decision to not implement RFID. Yet some factors influencing adoption may shed new light on why RFID is important.
Because manufacturers are now competing globally, they have shifted production to developing countries where cost of labor and resources is low. Software vendors have combined supply chain management functionality with enterprise resource planning software to stay globally competitive.
