Your customers require insight into your operations, inventories, and supply stream. They also demand commitments to new forecasts in every planning cycle. You recognize the value of more closely aligning your supply plan to actual market demand. And, you know reduced inventories, increased velocity, and higher customer satisfaction result in lower costs and increased revenues through higher customer retention and fewer shortages.
Success is all about integration.
Integration with your supply chain partners. And making promises to customers based on the delivery capabilities of you and your supplier partners. This is no easy task. You must integrate your supply chain initiatives and applications with ERP, CRM, legacy, and home-grown applications. Collecting, synthesizing, and analyzing all the data from disparate suppliers, internal systems, multiple divisions, and then, your customers is serious business.