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Business Pressures Mount as Supply Chain Complexity Increases

No matter what type of manufacturer you are, you're dealing with a very challenging environment. Gone are the days of local markets and vertically integrated operations. They have been replaced with global markets and competition and extremely distributed, outsourced operations. Your role has shifted from one of command and control to one of coordination and orchestration.

If you're like most manufacturers, you're business is facing increasing demand volatility, shorter product lifecycles and increasing supply chain complexity—a perfect storm.

The supply chain management challenges brought on by these forces are significant. Manufacturers today need to be able to more rapidly align demand and supply to deal with market realities. Solely relying on historical data to predict current and future activity is a high risk game of chance. You need to be able to collaborate more closely with your customers to understand true demand and have supply chain visibility and tools to quickly match supply and demand as it changes.

Leading Your Market in Customer Satisfaction and Operations Performance

With growing pressure on margins and operations performance objectives, your business needs to be resilient to change to thrive in today's market. You need to

• collaborate more closely with customers to understand their demand requirements,
• excel at identifying demand-supply misalignments and taking corrective action and
• develop more accurate supply plans while orchestrating on-the-fly adjustments with supply network partners to deal with the unexpected.

Kinaxis™ RapidResponse™ meets these needs by delivering a collaborative and integrated demand-supply planning, monitoring and response solution. RapidResponse helps develop more accurate demand plans and supply plans, while providing the supply chain management tools your staff needs to coordinate effective response to change.

RapidResponse capabilities provide solutions to

• supply chain visibility,
• demand management,
• supply management,
• sales and operations planning (S&OP)
• supply chain risk management and
• lean manufacturing business challenges.

These capabilities are delivered through a single on-demand service that delivers supply chain visibility, simulation and measurement against key performance indicators (KPIs) capabilities to ensure you lead your market in customer satisfaction and operations performance.

Success Stories

• Safety stock has been reduced by over 10%, the purchasing group has been streamlined by over 35%, the manpower hours required for material tracking has decreased significantly
  — specialty vehicle manufacturer
• Reduced excess inventory 20% within 6 months. Reduced product lead times by 35%
  — International diversified manufacturing leader