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June 2008: Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies
Hidden Costs Can Sabotage Gains of Outsourcing for Manufacturers
Having the flexibility to respond quickly even in complex, outsourced supply chains —a solution area known as response management—is the basis of the Kinaxis RapidResponse product, which is used by many contract manufacturers as well as by their OEM or ODM customers.
June 2008: IndustryWeek
Response Management Drives Next Generation Sales & Operations Planning
With a Response Management capability, companies apply a structure and process to responsiveness, empowering daily decision makers with tools for risk tradeoff and response.
May 2008: National Capital SCAN
SCM: not just another techronym (download digital edition of May Issue)
Kinaxis points out that strong SCM is a system that responds to the ever-changing dynamics of the market. “Having almost endless options in price, choice, functionality, and so on, puts the consumer clearly in charge,” he asserts, noting that these factors can have a chaotic effect on SCM operations if not managed properly.
May 2008: Manufacturing Business Technology
Supply chain execution proves a rich niche for best-of-breed solutions
“We can compare our master schedule to a customer's latest forecast in minutes, and see not only that there's—say—a million dollars of purchased parts that need expediting, but the individual part numbers and purchase orders involved,” says Joyner. “It's our belief a company that can effectively manage this information, make fast and intelligent decisions, and then execute to those decisions is going to win in the marketplace.”
April 2008: Manufacturing.net
Response Management: Meeting The Challenges Of Change
When it comes to your supply chain, maybe you should focus more attention on responding than planning. Although planning is still an important part of creating and maintaining a global supply chain, companies have been falling short when it comes to responding to their customers.
April 2008: Managing Automation
Taking Off the Blindfold (free registration required to view full article)
Perhaps it's time to throw out the term, "supply chain." It contains an inherent flaw: One slipup in the sequence of events — a break in the chain — brings the whole system to a screeching halt. Manufacturers can't afford that.
April 2008: Managing Automation
Caught Between Supply and Demand (free registration required to view full article)
Most manufacturers are being forced to negotiate between globally stretched supply networks and customers that won't accept out-of-stocks or long waits for finished goods. On top of that, many manufacturers are continually increasing the number and variety of products they sell, further complicating the task of planning.
March 2008: Technology Evaluation Centers
The RapidResponse Solution Continues to Improve (part 5 of 5-part series - free registration required)
Kinaxis has been enhancing its response management software for several years now, improving its capabilities to meet the needs of global manufacturers to drive quick response throughout today’s complex global supply chains.
March 2008: Technology Evaluation Centers
A Response Management Pioneer Offers Its Solution (part 4 of 5-part series - free registration required)
Existing mainstream enterprise systems are not meeting the market need for dynamic supply network flexibility. Thus, some businesses have turned to a new software category dubbed “response management” to extend the capabilities of traditional technologies...
March 2008: IndustryWeek
Responding to Demand Volatility
Achieving excellence in responding to changing customer demands has become the number one challenge facing enterprises today and can represent the largest opportunity for companies to increase customer service, enhance margins and attain more predictable revenue across the entire value chain.
March 2008: Technology Evaluation Centers
Achieving Supply Chain Visibility: There Is More to It than Meets the Eye (free registration required)
Industry research shows that one of the most important challenges facing supply chain professionals today is supply chain visibility. As companies scramble to adopt a way to gaining better visibility into their supply chain, they quickly realize that it’s not as simple as it seems. While achieving the right type of visibility is the first step, leveraging it to take quick and effective action is the key to its success.
March 2008: Better Process Podcast
Industry Report - Randy Littleson, Kinaxis
Introducing RapidResponse for Demand Management - purpose-built for the unique challenges faced by sales, customer service and demand management departments of manufactures as they respond to daily, unexpected change while balancing customer satisfaction and operations performance objectives.
March 2008: Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Response Management for Demand Fulfillment: A customer service breakthrough
Companies are managing demand response across their fulfillment networks by brute force. Companies must look to gain fulfillment network visibility and empower their front-line staff to understand true demand and continuously align finished good supply accordingly. By being able to respond rapidly to constant change, companies can gain significant competitive advantages in customer service while driving superior operations performance at the same time.
February 2008: EDN
Collaborative decision making requires a collaboration of capabilities
True collaboration requires managing information, analysis and responsibility from the initiation of an issue right to the final decision and follow-through.… successfully balancing what can often be competing priorities of customer service and operations performance.
January 2008: IndustryWeek
Keep the Customer Satisfied
Responsiveness to demand volatility is the new basis of competition. [Customer-centric business models] rely on real-time business intelligence and human collaboration to create demand-driven supply chains that are responsive to constant change.
December 2007: DC Velocity
technology review | Visibility & Control - in a (software) class by itself?
"Companies have come to the realization that to thrive today, it's not just about having a good plan," says Randy Littleson, vice president of marketing at Kinaxis. "It's about responding when the plan does not go as predicted."
November 2007: Managing Automation
An Intelligent Response
[Kinaxis] offers management new levels of visibility into the supply chain, and constant change is coupled with collaborative analysis tools that then respond to the changes. This is not simply another kind of supply chain or business planning methodology.
November 2007: CIO.com
The High-Stakes Search for Supply Chain Excellence During the Holiday Rush
The undeniable truth about supply chain planning for the holiday season is that it is a process that seeks clarity when unpredictability is the only thing companies can count on.
November 2007: Manufacturing.net
Supply Chain Management As A Competitive Weapon
With supply chains becoming more elongated as they become more global, the pace of demand changes increasing and product lifecycles shrinking, the responsiveness of your supply and fulfillment networks to change is becoming a more substantial determinant of company success. As such, companies must view their supply chains as a competitive weapon that can not only deliver low costs but impact top-line growth through superior responsiveness and best-in-class customer service.
October 2007: Manufacturing Business Technology
Supply chain innovation: Response management technology gains favor in global supply networks
Analysts from AMR Research, Aberdeen Group, Technology Forecasters, and Ventana Research all advocate the merits of Response Management—meaning the ability to quickly and effectively respond to change.
October 2007: Manufacturing Business Technology
Recognizing innovation in the global manufacturing enterprise
October 2007: IndustryWeek Podcast
Market Force: Response Management
October 2007: Managing Automation
Beating the Odds in Global Supply
September 2007: Supply & Demand Chain Executive Podcast
Response Management - Interview with Steve Hochman, AMR Research
September 2007: Manufacturing Business Technology
Decision-makers get a high-visibility assist with Kinaxis response management solutions
September 2007: Electronic Business
Moving in: electronics companies shift—with some pain—to the consumer world
September 2007: Manufacturing Business Technology
Solectron ups visibility using Kinaxis response management solution
August 2007: Manufacturing Business Technology
Outsourcing production may be fashionable, but not everyone is cashing in on the trend
July 2007: Supply & Demand Chain Executive
2007 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100
July 2007: EMSNow
Randy Littleson, Kinaxis' VP of Marketing talks about RapidResponse 9
July 2007: Manufacturing.net
A New Criteria for Manufacturing Success
June 2007: Better Process Podcast, PodcasterNews
RapidResponse 9 is Coming Out Very Soon
June 2007: Manufacturing Business Technology Europe
From forecast to factory: supply chain visibility with a difference at Toshiba Europe
May 2007: EMSNow
An interview with Thomas Kossmehl of Toshiba
May 2007: Better Process Podcasts, PodcasterNews
Using Software (yes Software) to help Lean
April 2007: Better Process Podcast, PodcasterNews
Are you using spreadsheets for changes in supply or demand?
April 2007: Manufacturing Business Technology
The new rules for global supply chain management
March 2007: Supply & Demand Chain Executive
2007 Pros to Know
March 2007: Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies
Teradyne Outsources Manufacturing, but Keeps Visibility and Control
February 2007: PricewaterhouseCoopers
Software Pricing Trends: How Vendors Can Capitalize on the Shift to New Revenue Models (download pdf report)
February 2007: Manufacturing.net
Supply Chain Trends
February 2007: Electronics Supply & Manufacturing
SCM 2007: What's in, what's out
February 2007: Manufacturing Business Technology
Reality Trumps Perfection

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