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Globalization, outsourcing, and compressed product life cycles, as well as the shifting competitive dynamic from enterprise to supply chain, has created a need for increased accountability.
Companies need a view into fragmented business processes, and a way to manage numerous disparate sources of information. The challenges presented by macro-industry forces are driving the need for new visibility and event-management tools.
The i2 Solution: i2 Supply Chain Visibility
i2 Supply Chain Visibility is designed to allow a company to respond to unplanned supply and demand events that may disrupt information and material flow in the supply chain. Supply events can include production bottlenecks, fulfillment delays, and supplier shortages. Demand events can include customer orders that are greater than forecasts or changes to orders that have already been placed. This solution is designed to manage these events, assess impact, and orchestrate resolution.
This solution is designed to provide visibility across fragmented business processes, and can provide exception resolution and decision support. The solution can provide a process-centric view coordinating different functional modules while enabling event management in the context of business processes. The solution can be configured for customer-specific needs.
The scope of the i2 Supply Chain Visibility solution can include:
- Inbound material flows from vendors (domestic or international) to retailer, distribution center, or stores
- Outbound material flows from distribution centers to customer facilities
- Configurable event detection mechanism and customizable event management workflows
- Multi-model goods movements
- Inventory visibility across multiple locations and states reflecting
- Consignment inventory
- Vendor-managed inventory
- Customer-managed inventory
- Inventory value and ownership
- Supporting other business processes and solutions such as
- Virtual direct
- Inventory optimization
- Transportation management
Key capabilities of i2 Supply Chain Visibility can include:
- Monitoring of multiple business process within a single application
- Contextual visibility across orders, shipments, and inventory within a distributed enterprise
- Configurable event detection mechanism and customizable event management workflows
- Multi-tiered order and inventory tracking
- Providing a “right-now” picture
- Support for context groups, work-lists, watch-lists, escalations
- Multiple modes and choices of notification (email, email digest, pagers, or cell phone)
- Integration with underlying applications for intelligent resolution and to prevent event recurrence
- Root-cause and performance analysis
Benefits of i2 Supply Chain Visibility can include:
- Centralized control with decentralized influence
- Forward visibility into potential issues with achieving targets
- Move from calendar-based to event-triggered planning and re-planning
- Increased employee productivity
- Potentially reduce execution process, personnel, and expedite costs
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