Jabil Inc. is a global leader in the electronics manufacturing services industry, with facilities throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Jabil offers innovative and comprehensive design, manufacturing, post-manufacturing, repair, and supply chain solutions to leading electronics and technology businesses across a broad range of industries.
The Jabil Challenge
Jabil takes pride in its ability to provide world-class quality and best-in-class service to its client base. However, business growth challenged its ability to rapidly respond to constant changes in supply, product, and capacity—and customer demands. The company turned to Kinaxis™ RapidResponse™ for the solution.
The RapidResponse Advantage
"RapidResponse gave us the visibility we needed," Stappert says. "It's an extremely powerful tool that enables us to instantly pull together disparate information and analyze it in many different ways—so we can answer 'what-if' questions from our customers and make informed decisions in hours, not weeks." RapidResponse accurately models internal and external data with a high level of speed and granularity—facilitating better revenue, marketing, and manufacturing-related choices that support financial goals.
Improved visibility makes it easier to resolve allocation issues, increase turns, minimize excess, and maintain consistent cash flow. RapidResponse also lets Jabil effectively leverage existing infrastructure and allows all supply chain participants to collaborate on decisions online in real time.
Today's intensely competitive business environment makes fast response more crucial than ever. "Customers used to be happy with a response in a week, but now they want it in a day," Stappert says. "The company that can effectively manage information, make fast and intelligent decisions, and execute to those decisions is going to win in the marketplace." For Jabil, RapidResponse is key to gaining and maintaining competitive advantage.
