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Today’s global business environment requires flexible, robust technology tools that enable companies to monitor the real world and respond quickly to changing circumstances—both inside and outside of the enterprise. Unfortunately, many current enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain applications lack business process flexibility, limiting a company’s ability to rapidly develop and implement changes to supply chain processes. These ERP and supply chain applications dictate, rather than conform to, the workflows needed to satisfy business partner requirements and organizational efficiency goals. As a result, when a company processes change, adjustments and updates can be costly and time consuming.
While many vendors are beginning to deliver products that implement business process platforms using a service-oriented architecture, most lack the depth of supply chain management knowledge that maximizes the potential of a single platform to design, test, and execute new or changed business processes. That’s what differentiates i2. A leader in providing supply chain management solutions for 20 years, i2 has applied its domain expertise to offer companies a better, more flexible, and enterprise-friendly way to manage their supply chains.
Companies can draw on i2’s rich supply chain heritage through the i2 Business Content Library (BCL), a collection of business process and technology reference workflows. The workflows are solution accelerators used to build applications that enable specific business functions and consist of data models, business rules, and user interface screens. Users can rapidly tailor the workflows according to their business needs and IT requirements—or use components to build their own workflows—and then implement them across the enterprise.
The workflows within the i2 Business Content Library span many industries and are built based on i2’s experience in delivering thousands of supply chain implementations to hundreds of companies worldwide. Library subscribers can select a reference workflow, customize it, and then implement it, leveraging their company’s
pre-existing IT systems and applications. The i2 Agile Business Process Platform, a supply chain backbone
based on a service-oriented architecture and an integrated design environment—i2 Studio—complements
the i2 Business Content Library to drive workflow development and business process management.
Reference workflows within the i2 BCL serve as business accelerators—a starting point from which companies can build supply chain solutions that meet the unique challenges of a specific industry and business.
Workflows are offered in seven
broad categories:
Customers can visit the i2 Business Content Library website at http://BCL.i2.com
Find out more about the i2 Business Content Library by email at bcl@i2.com
or by phone at 469.357.3456
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