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Accelerate Time to Supply Chain Management Value

Kinaxis™ RapidResponse™ Deployment Services accelerate your implementation and ensure that your unique supply chain management (SCM) challenges are fully addressed. Leveraging best practices in on-demand service deployment, and a wealth of manufacturing experience, RapidResponse can be fully functional in weeks, and completely rolled out in just a couple of months.

Benchmark Electronics, for example, leveraged the Kinaxis deployment services to quickly integrate RapidResponse with its Baan ERP system. The project began delivering value within the quarter, leading to an expanded rollout to all sixteen global sites. Benchmark is now able to reap the benefits of real-time supply chain management and continue its market leadership with rapid response to change. Kinaxis has helped many of the world's leading manufacturers rapidly deploy RapidResponse and realize substantial return on their investment.

The proven, rapid deployment methodology used by Kinaxis is based on standard project management approaches and extensive know-how gained from deploying RapidResponse in brand owner and manufacturing organizations around the world. Our deployment methodology will lead you through the following stages:

• Manage — manage the project to achieve a successful and rapid deployment
• Connect — integrate RapidResponse with supply chain partner manufacturing data, perform input data verification and review data audit functions with your deployment team
• Configure — train your deployment team on the RapidResponse solution, configure settings, users and groups
• Confirm — test business processes and your configured system resources
• Close-out — promote configured solution to deployment ready state and transition you from involvement with the Kinaxis Services team to interaction with the Kinaxis Customer Support team

Our team is able to leverage best practices, templates, checklists and recommendations to streamline your RapidResponse deployment while still addressing your unique needs. Our standard initial deployment is typically completed within 90 days from project kickoff through production rollout.

Training is also a critical component of empowering your team to be self sufficient and RapidResponse power users. Please see our training section for all of our training options.

To find out how RapidResponse Deployment Services can help you achieve superior operations performance, contact us at consulting@kinaxis.com.