Plan, Monitor and Respond from ONE Product

Make the Right Demand and Supply Balancing Decisions Quickly

Problem

With an increasingly volatile marketplace, no one can afford to wait to make a decision. And making the wrong decision can cost…big. Fast and confident actions are the table stakes.

Need

That means companies must transform how they make decisions inside and outside of the supply chain. From one enterprise management system and across key business functions, companies must be able to quickly

get notified of unexpected events of concern,
do deep, forward-looking “what-if” analysis, and
align decisions as a team before taking corrective action.

Solution

Within one single product, RapidResponse® Control Tower integrates key supply chain management (SCM) functions, sales and operations planning (S&OP) processes, and other associated business areas. It is a cloud solution that allows companies to compress the time to identify a variety of plan deviations, and more importantly, dramatically collapse the time to make profitable course corrections in response.

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Benefit

Despite complex and chaotic environments, Kinaxis customers make decisions quickly, collaboratively, and in line with the shared business objectives of all impacted stakeholders.

The results?

Teams stay aligned to company goals—period. (Corporate Performance and Risk Management)
Cycle-times to detect and correct plan variance diminish. (Operations Performance)
Promises that are made are promises kept. (Customer Satisfaction)

“Today's business imperatives are speed, agility and responsiveness. This means functions and processes need to be knit together in a way that allows not only information, but also analysis, to seamlessly cross over departmental and functional lines. What's more, decision making must tap human judgment in order to decipher the compromises that need to be made to maximize the business as a whole. It is evident that Kinaxis recognizes these urgent priorities by the release of its RapidResponse Control Tower offering.”: Kevin O'Marah, Senior Research Fellow, Stanford Global Supply Chain Forum

It's a balancing act.

Ultimately, managing your business comes down to balancing demand and supply in all areas of the business—whether that be within demand and supply chain management, human resources, finance or any other corporate function.

RapidResponse Control Tower is a powerful cloud offering that delivers not just detailed information, but also fully embedded analytical tools for taking action on that information…fast!

With RapidResponse Control Tower capabilities, cross-functional teams can use a single product to plan, monitor, and respond to all types of demand and supply balancing situations.

Ask yourself…

How soon do you know if your business has deviated from plan…if you are missing on forecast or budget targets?
How quickly can you figure out the impact?
Do you know who is impacted by change, and how?
How long does it take you to course correct?
Do you know how one organization's actions affect another organization?

Piecemeal technology solutions don't cut it.

When things change quickly and customers expect instant answers, clumsy disparate legacy software suites that take a patchwork approach to attempt to achieve integrated business planning and response management simply don't fit the bill.

Kinaxis customers have replaced their multiple legacy demand and supply planning systems and their myriad of accompanying spreadsheets with RapidResponse and have gained a full enterprise monitoring, simulation, and collaboration capability as a result.

RapidResponse Control Tower eliminates the divide between siloed functions with a single, configurable platform that integrates information, analytics, and human ingenuity for holistic coordination of an enterprise's operations performance. And all with no custom coding! Repeat: NO CUSTOM CODING!

Learn more about the technology behind RapidResponse Control Tower.