Supply chains can look very different from industry to industry. But companies across industries share a common challenge -- finding ways to better manage growing uncertainty and complexity to improve supply chain performance.
To improve their supply chains, companies across industries have made sizable investments in a range of technology solutions, yet significant profitability improvements have remained elusive. Largely unaddressed has been the opportunity to use enterprise and supply chain data to support key inventory planning decisions (such as determining inventory targets, lot sizes, and replenishment plans) that fuel execution systems and activities -- something beyond a mere spreadsheet or desktop solution.
SmartOps customers are proactively managing supply chain uncertainty across all stages to improve their total chain inventory planning, so that their customer service levels can be stabilized and even increased while overall costs to the business are minimized.
SmartOps has customers in all major industries including leading companies within each category:
SmartOps enterprise software solutions support many initiatives and challenges associated with different manufacturing and distribution industries from
Lean Manufacturing, Just-In-TIme(JIT), and
Six Sigma initiatives, to postponement strategies, to Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR), and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) activities.
The SmartOps solutions allow our customers to effectively address the challenges associated with:
- Multistage/multi-echelon interdependencies
- Inherent supply and demand uncertainties and variability
- Inventory planning in the presence of capacity constraints
- Increasingly competitive service level and product availability targets
- Silo-based planning decisions and data
- The different purposes for which inventory is needed in the supply chain
- Understanding and managing the many possible drivers of inventory
As a result, SmartOps customers are executing against optimized inventory planning targets to drive revenue improvements and sizable cost reductions. Because SmartOps solutions use the existing production-level data available within an organization, customers are able to see and understand where the biggest ongoing opportunities for improvement are within their supply chains.
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