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A Single Solution for Many Supply Chain Management Challenges
Many manufacturers are investing in transforming their supply chain management practices because traditional demand planning and supply chain planning systems, which were not designed for today's reality, are falling short. Supply chain management success today is defined by the speed and effectiveness of responding to constant and unforeseen changes. The demanding requirements where real world variances in demand, supply and product occur require rapid decisions and action — a real-time supply chain.
Kinaxis™ RapidResponse™ delivers value to your entire supply chain management organization and, through a single solution, empowers them to solve:
- supply chain visibility,
- demand management,
- supply management,
- sales and operations planning (S&OP),
- supply chain risk management and
- lean manufacturing business challenges.
RapidResponse provides collaborative and integrated demand-supply planning, monitoring and response to change — essentials for dealing with today's supply chain management realities.
- “We use RapidResponse to find data integrity problems, planning parameter mistakes, potential errors in planning and managing material—and it can also be used for the more complex analyses that a master planner would do for downstream supply chain plant transfers and the like. RapidResponse is like the Swiss Army knife of materials management. If you can leverage it for materials management in your local plant, and at regional and global levels, you have the most powerful Swiss Army knife ever invented.”
- Ron Stappert, manufacturing operations manager of Jabil Circuit's Guadalajara facility
Delivering Superior Operations Performance with Less Complexity
As an on-demand service, RapidResponse can be deployed and operational in weeks. It reduces the burden on IT by empowering supply chain management professionals to solve their own problems without the need for multiple "one-off" custom solutions or costly, disparate demand planning and supply chain planning systems. In fact, most Kinaxis customers replace multiple legacy supply chain planning systems with RapidResponse.
RapidResponse delivers more IT value with less complexity:
- Lower total cost of ownership and no capital investment — an on-demand service requires no user-owned or managed infrastructure, reducing risks and costs by eliminating the need for up-front capital investments and ongoing IT resources for maintenance and management.
- Low deployment costs — proven methodology for completing a new deployment within weeks, supported by tools to ease the integration and deployment process, minimizing the impact on IT resources.
- Multiple supply chain management capabilities attained from a single service — RapidResponse empowers supply chain management staff to solve many of today's most challenging problems with a single planning and decision making tool..
- Broad range of users' unique supply chain management needs addressed — RapidResponse is being used by demand managers, planners, buyers, supply chain managers, executives, customer service representatives, financial analysts, material managers and others to solve problems on their own, without the need for ongoing IT support and involvement.
- Comprehensive corporate data leveraged, including SAP, ORACLE ERP, spreadsheets and SCM systems — RapidResponse continuously and securely acquires the information directly from existing sources and consolidates your heterogeneous data into a single version of the truth to facilitate rapid response to ever changing conditions. It also includes data integrity tools to identify and fix errors that could lead to misinformed decisions.
- Intuitive interface — RapidResponse employs universally intuitive interfaces (browser, spreadsheet and scorecard), an essential requirement for diverse, ad hoc supply chain management teams that often span your enterprise and beyond.
Success Stories
- Information from 12 different ERP data sources is used in simulations that take 60 seconds
— Electronic manufacturing services (EMS) provider - RapidResponse was fully
implemented and offering tangible value to a broad user-base within 15 weeks
— wireless communications provider - Over 5,000 RapidResponse users, at about
40 sites. Instantly pulls together disparate information and analyze it in many different ways.
Accurately models internal and external data with a high level of speed and granularity.
Leverages existing infrastructure and allows all supply chain participants to collaborate on decisions online in real time.
— EMS Provider
