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Archived White Papers
Carbon Footprint Planning Capabilities Across the Supply Chain
By KinaxisCarbon is challenging business in many ways and customers, investors and other stakeholders are paying very close attention to how the challenge is met. Those that react well to the challenge will be seen as innovators and will be rewarded; others will fall behind and risk becoming an afterthought or worse.
This paper provides a brief exploration of the current carbon landscape and will outline the attributes of an ideal set of supply chain carbon management tools.
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In today's fast-moving marketplace, the customer is king. Customization, last-minute changes, aggressive pricing, and perfect order fulfillment are now critical to achieve and maintain brand loyalty. These constantly shifting consumer and business procurement demands are driving a new paradigm for supply chain and demand management—one that requires brand owners to move beyond old methods of forecasting and demand planning to solutions that support instant, accurate demand response. To succeed, companies need a combination of tools and technologies that deliver:
- Global visibility to live, actionable data from ERP, SCP, and legacy systems across internal and external supply chains
- Proactive alerting to help teams align all demand and supply considerations and respond at the moment
- Collaborative assessment of many "what-if" alternatives so participants can choose the best options
- Comprehensive scoring of potential actions against corporate goals and profit targets
Download this white paper to learn how new demand management strategies and tools can help you meet the challenges of today's demand-driven supply chain to steer business growth.
Rapid Response to Change Drives Breakthroughs in Manufacturing Operations Performance
By KinaxisManufacturing operations is one of the last frontiers for performance management solutions. Though enterprise-wide planning systems can improve operational efficiency, they don't address a crucial need modern manufacturers face: the ability to quickly and effectively respond to changes in supply, demand, and product. Reducing uncertainty at all stages of the manufacturing process—and making the tradeoffs necessary to resolve manufacturing operations problems across the supply chain—is key to maximizing profitability. To achieve this, companies need solutions that let them:
- Gain global visibility to live data throughout multiple disparate systems
- Give all participants a single version of the truth
- Collaboratively weigh multiple "what-if" scenarios against organizational goals
- Assess the impact of proposed actions before they're made
- Replace costly "just-in-case" strategies with a streamlined response capability
Download this white paper to see how Kinaxis™ RapidResponse delivers these capabilities to help you gain competitive advantage and improve manufacturing operations performance.
Four Capabilities Required for 21st Century Sales and Operations Planning
By KinaxisOperations performance is seriously challenged by today's dynamic, global manufacturing environment. Multi-tier supply chains require more than good planning and accurate forecasts to meet corporate performance management goals. Even small supply chain disruptions can trigger a domino effect, threatening customer loyalty and enterprise profitability. Adding real-time performance monitoring and alerts can keep your staff responsive to unplanned events and keep operations aligned with business strategies and key performance indicators (KPIs). Managing operations performance has never been more critical. You need a solution that provides:
- Profit-based S&OP that meets both departmental and overall business goals
- A balanced scorecard using both operational and financial KPIs to inform decisions
- Supply chain visibility and data integration across multiple enterprise levels
- Collaborative scenario analysis so you can select the most profitable strategy
- Performance monitoring and alerting to enable swift response to unplanned events
Download this white paper to learn why you need best-in-class S&OP to improve your organization's corporate performance management in manufacturing for the 21st century.
How CIOs Can Improve Supply Chain Management, Even with a Tight IT Budget
By KinaxisNearly all CIOs today are under pressure to contain costs, yet many enterprises need better systems, not cutbacks. How can you do both?
Right now is an ideal time for CIOs to make careful investments in key areas that wring better business results from smaller IT budgets. Given the limitations of software now being used for sales and operations planning —spreadsheets, ERP, and legacy planning— this paper looks at one way CIOs can roll out significantly more powerful supply chain management functions at an affordable cost by extending existing systems with specialized software delivered as a service (SaaS).
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This white paper gives IT directors the inside track on how to adapt their supply chain to meet both the operations performance and IT challenges of the modern supply chain. It presents five powerful "secrets" that can help you move on from the linear tactics of the past, and take concrete steps toward a dynamic future and a more ideal supply chain solution for the 21st century.
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This white paper gives Supply Chain Managers the inside track on how to modernize their supply chain to meet the operations performance challenges of the 21st century. It presents five powerful "secrets" that can help you move on from the linear supply chain tactics of the past, and take concrete steps toward a more dynamic future. Learn the secrets and even take a survey to grade your sales and operations planning (S&OP) maturity.
Coordinating Outsourced Manufacturing: A Win-Win Proposition for OEMs and CMs
By KinaxisManaging the demands of constant change is one of the biggest challenges facing the electronics industry today. As the relationship between brand owners and CMs evolve, the need for flexible tools and methodologies to help them effectively manage change within the supply chain becomes critical. Case Study: Lucent (now Alcatel-Lucent).
Leveraging Response Management in a Super-Charged Environment
By KinaxisResearch In Motion (RIM) Limited, maker of the BlackBerry®, is a Canadian company experiencing massive growth in volume output, staffing, and manufacturing infrastructure. The combined pressures of a rapidly expanding customer base and shortened product lifecycles have led the company to add more contract manufacturers to the supply chain, which means that more complex decisions need to be made in less time. Existing software was not up to the challenge, so the implementation of a new decision support tool was essential to keep RIM positioned as a market leader.
Teradyne/Solectron (now Flextronics): Overcoming Challenges in OEM/CM Relationships
By KinaxisSuccess for today's manufacturers depends on the ability to respond quickly to constantly changing customer demands while keeping costs low and efficiency high. Effectively managing the "demand-driven supply chain" is highly challenging in today's increasingly outsourced and complex environment.
Enabling Sales and Operations Planning with RapidResponse
By KinaxisSales and Operations Planning organizations that leverage demand-supply planning, monitoring, and collaborative response solutions are finding themselves better equipped to power a world class S&OP process. Key capabilities include; scenario management, expressing the results of scenarios as financial measures, early alerting to consequences of decisions made elsewhere in the supply chain, and focusing users on the exceptions that require their attention.
