The greatest threat to your business is the lack of timely and accurate information’ Without all the facts, to shoot a business decisions and assess risks and opportunities based on conjecture’ These decisions in May because of major financial loss or loss of revenue opportunities for your business’ Electronics manufacturers face a number of problems when trying to predict the supply and demand’ Web-based solutions are available to address this complex problem and allow companies to model multiple levels of the supply chain network and share data on supply and demand’ Supply chain collaboration in aligning business processes and suppliers to reduce inventory, has the right product at the right time, and reduce inefficiencies’
APPLICATION
Problem:
It is very difficult to forecast demand’
a’ Unstable environment? competitors, prices, technologies, rapid changes
b’ Many customers, complex and overlapping distribution channels, direct sales, indirect sales’
c’ Lengthy sales cycles, from design wins, the interdependencies of software, hardware, design and systems integration’
Solution:
Collaborate online with customers, distributors, sales force, and retail POS’ This is where knowledge of customer demand is true’ Staff through a dialogue, not only the aggregation of demand forecasts from various sources’
FOOD
Problem:
It is very difficult to answer the question, my suppliers can supply enough to meet demand forecasting?
Solution:
Collaborate online with their key suppliers through the exchange of demand forecasts, to offer their predictions, and identify and quickly resolve the obstacles’
a’ Concentrate on the main suppliers of critical components (A and B)’
b’ C’ Ignore suppliers
c’ Browse through several levels of the supply chain to determine the limitations or exceptions’
THE KEY TO SUCCESS OF COLLABORATION:
Bring value to its suppliers and customers, as well as for you’ This ensures accurate and enthusiastic participation’
a’ Make reliable forecasts can not be overstated or updated’
b’ Allow providers to publish their true abilities in its ability to signal through the service level agreements and soft capacity in the system’
c’ Keep the simple model of supply chain and allow suppliers to maintain its own line, rather than creating a fixed, complex, in the model of supply chain’ This ensures that the suppliers? capacity is accurate and current’ As providers add lines or plants or to transfer the production, can change their piece of the supply chain model with the simple point and click Tools’
d’ Access to simple, intuitive and easy to connect to other enterprise systems’
i’ The use of a Web application so that no client software, you can access from anywhere
ii’ Data can be entered in multiple ways: through manual entry of the Web browser, the transfer of EDI, XML for the transfer and exchange files in Excel’
iii’ Make the screen and easy access to data on the screen through the web browser, export to Excel, export via EDI or XML’
e’ It’s easier to send and receive alerts when changes to critical data
i’ Via email, pager, cellular phone’
ii’ Configure the reporting of events and exceptions’
iii’ Through board type of application to make changes and alerts
f’ Implement performance measures in the supply chain
i’ Standardize performance metrics and definitions for the various algorithms to measure performance at all levels of the supply chain’
ii’ Report and daily monitoring of results and corrective actions’
The strategic vision
Beyond the tactical benefits of reducing inventory across the supply chain and thus reduce costs for OEMs, and more responsive to the supply chain less lost sales due to products not available when necessary, collaborative planning Collaborative Planning of supply and demand, offer important strategic advantages for the user’ The outsourcing of manufacturing, ultimately, the battle is won by competitive firms which can operate an engineering and supply chain for greater efficiency and greater responsiveness’ The strategic imperative is not only a manufacturer to select lower cost (tactics discussion today), but to make sure you can create a lower cost, more flexible supply chain on an ongoing basis in the future’