One of our priorities in designing this system was to achieve an acceptable user response time. Inc. Creating a Supply Chain Management System Using Enterprise JavaBeans Business Challenges Give users a comprehensive, real-time view of the company 's distribution plan. Enable instant, high-level changes to the system that are reflected across the entire system. New system can scale to support data from thousands of users and products.
Users can complete tasks on system while application performs complex calculations.
Open standards solution provides greater flexibility for future expansion. Flexible architecture allows users to define system configuration for maximum performance. Overview Grocery retailing has become an art. TRC's project architects combed the market for an innovative technology that supported a robust sales forecasting and distribution planning system. The system had to provide users with a comprehensive, real-time view of the distribution plan and the ability to make instant changes to sales and distribution figures that would be immediately reflected across the entire system.