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Reduce Inventory and Drive Better Operations Performance
Operations and supply chain managers sit in the eye of the storm. Constant changes in demand, supply and product create a bullwhip effect that can bloat inventories and degrade manufacturing operations performance. Decision makers need to leverage the entire supply chain effectively to quickly evaluate risk tradeoffs and provide the correct response to change.
Kinaxis™ RapidResponse™ enables brand owners and contract manufacturers to be demand-driven, quickly sensing supply and demand misalignments and orchestrating their supply chain to their customer's changing needs via a profitable response. It does so by enabling them to
- respond more effectively to changes in demand, supply, and product and
- realign supply to stated demand on a monthly, weekly, daily and near-real-time basis.
It also provides global supply chain visibility and analysis capabilities to support key business processes, performance monitoring and improved data integrity. Together, these capabilities deliver tremendous value to the business, enabling you to dramatically improve customer service, increase margins, reduce inventory, and efficiently scale your business.
RapidResponse meets the manufacturing operations and supply chain challenges of today's manufacturers by delivering solutions for master scheduling and planning, inventory management and product ion planning. With RapidResponse, you will be able to
- Create or re-align the master schedule to the demand and/or supply plan, while supporting business objectives.
- Rapidly respond to requests for increased supply with achievable delivery dates and quantities that support manufacturing operations performance metrics.
- Resolve projected late supply, while maximizing attainment of organizational goals and minimizing negative impact on customers.
- Ensure the material plan is feasible and supports the master schedule and manufacturing operations performance objectives.
- Ensure the procurement supply plan and/or outsourced supply plan is feasible and supports the material plan.
- Ensure the production supply plan is feasible and supports the material plan.
- Ensure commitments are kept when demand increase is deemed achievable.
- Identify root causes of late supply and develop corrective action plans.
- Minimize inventory excess and obsolescence and ensure that inventory levels are aligned with corporate objectives and supply policies.
Benefits include:
- improved customer service through:
- rapid response to requests,
- maintenance of intended inventory buffers,
- supply issues resolved in order of priority,
- advanced warning to customers of late orders
- reduced excess and obsolete inventory by dynamic alignment of supply and demand and improved engineering change timing,
- enhanced visibility to service, financial, and operations performance impact enabling informed decisions and actions and
- improved supply chain staff productivity through:
- comprehensive supply chain visibility,
- proactive exception alerting,
- rapid impact analysis and
- collaborative decision making
