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RapidResponse
"All in one Place" Demand and Supply Chain Management
Accumulating data is easy.
But accessing, analyzing and acting on that data in a way that makes you more efficient, and more profitable, is proving to be incredibly difficult for many manufacturers today.
RapidResponse was built to do exactly this.
With RapidResponse, manufacturers effectively balance volatile demand and supply, creating an environment in which they can increase customer service while reducing inventory.
RapidResponse makes it possible for you create an integrated demand and supply chain plan, actively monitor your performance to that plan and immediately respond to unexpected change.
Unlike ERP SCM suites or the use of spreadsheets, RapidResponse will automatically alert the right people when unplanned events occur and enable them to evaluate alternative scenarios before taking corrective action.
Tackle your biggest supply chain management and S&OP challenges with a single service that provides:
Visibility into Critical Data
Get a single view of the truth
- Connect directly to multiple, disparate ERP and other systems (internal or external to the organization) for comprehensive supply chain visibility
- Tailor the RapidResponse user interface for the hierarchal views and detail you want
- Share information access and privileges by user or group for staff and suppliers
- Drill down through embedded hyperlinks to access greater detail
Alerts and Event Management
Focus on urgent issues, before they turn into major problems
- Receive exception-based notifications of changing supply and demand conditions and their potential impact to the business
- Automatic notification by email, web page, and other mediums
- Automate responses and use alerts to trigger additional contingency processes
Rapid Calculations
See outcomes in seconds
- Manipulate current data in seconds instead of hours
- Manage supply and demand across many internal and external sites
- Identify the full impact of decisions prior to execution
- Add custom metrics and calculations
What-If Analysis
Collaborate to determine the best supply chain decision possible
- Simulate the outcome of potential reactions to disruptions in the supply chain to determine which response best fits your operational and financial objectives
- Base all simulations on current MRP and MPS data from throughout the extended supply chain
- Include internal and external participants for complete stakeholder input on simulations and end-decisions
- Record and publish best-practices for specific situations
Scorecarding
Rank and align decisions with goals in real time
- Measure proposed scenarios against key parameters such as customer impact, costs, and quality
- Adjust criteria weighting to fit your unique requirements
- Customize scoring for departmental, divisional, corporate, and user-defined targets
- Drill down through result figures to establish their root causes
Transform Supply Chain Management and S&OP with RapidResponse — Plan, Monitor, Respond
Can a single on-demand service change the way billion dollar companies manage their supply chains? Yes. And it can transform supply chain management and S&OP for you, too.
- “Management has asked us repeatedly why it is we don't use some of the offerings of our ERP vendor to do the kind of analysis that RapidResponse can do. And the answer to that is that their architecture isn't even close…”
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Jim Wood, Director, Supply Chain Information Systems, Teradyne
Many of the world's most competitive manufacturers chose RapidResponse™ over expensive suites of supply chain planning software. Why?
It's quite simple, really. With RapidResponse, you can tackle your biggest supply chain management and S&OP challenges with a single service, using the following capabilities:
- Single Integrated View
- See your entire supply chain (across sites and systems) in one place.
- Spreadsheets with Analytics
- Draw on dozens of standard workbooks that use a familiar spreadsheet interface embedded with powerful MRP and advanced planning analytics. Simply change one worksheet cell and calculate the impact of the change in mere seconds.
- Scenarios
- Create "what-if "scenarios in seconds, not days.
- Collaboration
- Bring in staff from across the organization to collaborate. And this means more than sharing data among systems—it is individuals working as a group to reach better decisions.
- Scorecards
- Understand your operations performance at a glance. Compare the operational and financial impact of proposed scenarios.
- Alerts
- Monitor performance to your plan. Receive email alerts that are triggered based on thresholds you set.
Regain control of your supply chain performance. Make supply chain decisions quickly, collaboratively, and directly in line with your business objectives of increasing customer service and reducing inventory.
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