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Supply Chain Management Designed for Today's Needs…

Traditional "push based" supply chains, driven by statistical forecasts, focused their supply chain management (SCM) initiatives on supply management. But as manufacturers seek to become more customer focused, they quickly realize that they can't plan the customer. Lacking the proper tools to cope with increasing demand volatility, most supply chain managers are forced to rely on "blood, sweat and Excel." The resulting customer satisfaction challenges threaten both top and bottom line operations performance.

Outsourcing, shorter product lifecycles, mass customization, and fickle demand have put pressure on a supply chain organization's ability to maintain customer service. An agile supply chain that can respond to unexpected changes or volatile customer demands requires supporting technology solutions that are equally as agile.

Unlike Excel spreadsheets or SCM solutions that are comprised of a suite of modules, Kinaxis™ RapidResponse™ offers a single service that can address multiple supply chain challenges by empowering a broad base of users with:

• Visibility. A single integrated view. See your entire supply chain—across sites, systems and partners.
• Speed. Create what-if scenarios in seconds, not hours or days. Act with speed and confidence. A powerful analytics engine will dramatically reduce response and planning cycle times.
• Collaboration. Identify who is impacted by a change and collaborate across the organization to reach better decisions.

RapidResponse acts as a central decision making point for supply planners, demand planners and customer service representatives. It lets you build a plan, monitor that plan and quickly respond when supply and demand are out of balance.

Find out more about how RapidResponse supports supply chain management including particular functions such as: