Improving Supply Chain Performance by Managing Uncertainty

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"SmartOps allows us to continue to advance our supply chain as a strategic source of value for our stakeholders."

We at SmartOps, the market leader in enterprise-class inventory optimization solutions, enable you to more effectively manage the uncertainty of a complex, multistage supply chain to achieve rapid return on investment and long-term, sustainable value.

So what does all that mean?

To be blunt, traditional planning systems aren't designed for the real world. In the real-world supply chain -- in your day-to-day business -- uncertainty is a given. Events disrupt assumptions. One simply cannot assume uncertainty away and deliver trustworthy planning targets.

Just as companies have built core competencies in managing quality and risk, the current business environment -- with distributed manufacturing, global sourcing, and increasing complexity -- requires a far more reliable and comprehensive approach to managing uncertainty to achieve optimal supply chain performance.

Supply Chain Shortfalls:  Does This Sound Too Familiar?

Over-buffering against uncertainty by deploying costly and inflated inventories.

Massaging and manually overriding current systems with "rule-of-thumb" decisions, simple spreadsheets, or manually intensive conference calls and meetings to arrive at a consensus based on "collective wisdom."

Scrambling to react and put out fires to meet increasing customer expectations (and frequently falling well short of those expectations as service levels suffer).

Then there is the traditional balancing act: the accustomed but uncomfortable tradeoffs between maintaining excellent customer service and meeting financial goals.

There Is a More Sensible and Proven Approach

Only SmartOps provides a combination of specific, critical capabilities to help your organization respond rapidly to business pressures and create competitive advantage with a step-change improvement in supply chain performance management:

• A Total Supply Chain View: The ability to simultaneously consider all items, all locations, and all stages in multitiered manufacturing and distribution supply chains
• Data Confidence: The proven technology and expertise required to create confidence in both the inputs and outputs by continually analyzing, transforming, and validating operational data
• A Stochastic Process Engine: A highly sophisticated and systematic way to properly account for the time-varying uncertainty of key supply chain parameters to optimize operational targets
• Operational Synchronization: Connected and synchronized operation with existing enterprise systems
• Continuous Insight: Ongoing analysis of operational data to identify the drivers of supply chain performance and quantify opportunities where improvements in managing uncertainty will create increased business value

And this is why high-performing, innovative companies like Kellogg Company, Bayer MaterialScience, John Deere, GlaxoSmithKline, and more place their faith in the output of our solutions. 

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