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Transform Your Supply Chain Management Practices
Manufacturers today are required to transform their supply chain management (SCM) practices in order to become more responsive. Global competition combined with increasing volatility requires companies to rethink the traditional plan-execute model. Kinaxis solutions empower customer-focused companies to achieve breakthroughs in operations performance and customer satisfaction by rapidly and more profitably responding to constant changes in demand, supply and product. Your front-line supply chain managers gain the tools for collaborative and integrated demand-supply planning, monitoring and response.
Empowering a Responsive Enterprise
Kinaxis™ RapidResponse™ helps your teams collaborate on building better plans and is unique in its ability to empower a more responsive enterprise. In the midst of increasing complexity and risks, speed and integrity of the collective trade-off in the face of constant change become as important as analytical precision of the initial plan. For high-impact decisions, there's a new urgency to complement automation with team insight.
The current reality of constant "fire fighting" to deal with unplanned orders, supply disruptions and rapid new product introductions is no longer sustainable. Once alerted, customer service representatives need to collaborate with planners who coordinate with suppliers and schedulers to
- understand the impact of a change,
- analyze action alternatives for dealing with it and
- select the option that best aligns with corporate objectives
Finance plays a more active role as countless daily decisions impact the operations performance of the company.
Team insight and collaborative response have become essential to supply chain management excellence.
Breaking Down Silos with a Single, Integrated Supply Chain Management Solution
By combining supply and demand planning, monitoring and response in a single solution, your employees are armed with the tools to solve a wide variety of supply chain management problems in a single solution. RapidResponse breaks down the silos that have prevented responsiveness in the past. As a result, RapidResponse is typically used by tens or hundreds of employees throughout the entire supply chain who achieve new levels of collaboration and responsiveness, driving breakthroughs in customer service and operations performance.
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- “Kinaxis' RapidResponse supports managers who want to take a supply chain strategy from planning through execution, analysts who need to model and iterate scenarios for effective planning, and individuals who need to provide inputs or view information.”
- Colin Snow, VP and Research Director, Ventana Research
