RapidResponse 9 introduced significant improvements to our Alerting capability that allows you to easily "sense" when something important has happened. Through this hands-on workshop, you will have the opportunity to create single record, multi-record and scorecard based alerts, use Message Center to review your triggered alerts and use our new tools to manage your alerts.

This workshop applies to both RapidResponse for Manufacturing and RapidResponse for Fulfillment.

RapidResponse has always been able to tell you what the impact of a change is. RapidResponse TeamForm, an innovative feature introduced in RapidResponse 9, uses groups, filters and workbooks in conjunction with powerful analytics to determine WHO is impacted by a proposed change. This hands-on workshop will give an overview of TeamForm, and then delve into the process of setting up and maintaining a TeamForm environment.

This workshop applies to both RapidResponse for Manufacturing and RapidResponse for Fulfillment.

Powerful new elements have been added recently to the workbook author's toolbox.

• Crosstabs
• Telescoping bucketing
• Conditional formatting
• Graphing
• Multi-scenario workbooks

Additionally, many workbook authors have struggled in the past with creating metric workbooks. This hands-on workshop will give a quick walkthrough of these new workbook authoring concepts. We will step through the process of creating a metric workbook, use this workbook in a scorecard and create a set of metric targets for your new metrics.

This workshop applies to both RapidResponse for Manufacturing and RapidResponse for Fulfillment.

In our upcoming release we are enabling Data Administrators to manage all aspects of their integration within RapidResponse. One or more Data Administrators will be able to log-in to RapidResponse and interactively expand, refine, and manage the RapidResponse integration. This includes creating sites, adding data sources, mapping data, extending the data model, modifying control records, scheduling data updates, and reviewing update status and logs. Customers who currently use Integration Center or manually manage their integration will be able to upgrade to the new Integration Management environment.

During this workshop we will:

• Review the roadmap for Integration and discuss upgrade/migration to the new environment
• Demonstrate the new integration management capabilities
• Work through an exercise of integrating a new site

This workshop applies to both RapidResponse for Manufacturing and RapidResponse for Fulfillment.

Over the course of the last few releases, Kinaxis has invested significant efforts in improving the richness of some of the integration functions including the methods and features we offer to update data into the RapidResponse Data Model. During this session, we'll cover an overview and some practical use of the following features:

• Converting outsourced supply data in cross-tab Excel format into flat-files for loading into RapidResponse
• Implementing Region-based Data Update for improved data update frequency and performance in global environment deployments
• Implementing Table-based Data Update for improved data update frequency and performance when loading recent data changes
• Utilizing Data Tolerances to protect the integrity of your data updates
• Leveraging improvements in Data Update logging and "scheduled tasks" within the RapidResponse Administration interface

This workshop applies to both RapidResponse for Manufacturing and RapidResponse for Fulfillment.

QUALCOMM, a FORTUNE 500® company, develops its advanced technologies and solutions for the purpose of enabling key participants in the wireless value chain. QUALCOMM works to quickly bring to market cutting-edge solutions that meet the vigorous demands of its consumers around the globe. As such, supply chain efficiency and customer service performance are important to maintaining a competitive advantage in the wireless market. RapidResponse, which will integrate with QUALCOMM's Oracle environment, will be used to facilitate effective impact analysis of supply and demand, ultimately driving rapid resolution to continually changing circumstances as persistently experienced in the fast paced environment in which QUALCOMM operates.

With RapidResponse, users throughout the supply chain organization will be able to access accurate and detailed supply and demand information in an easy-to-use spreadsheet interface that is embedded with ERP analytics and automatically populated with live data feeds from the QUALCOMM Oracle ERP system. Demand management participants across various functional groups will model ERP data to instantly simulate, share and score "what-if" supply and demand scenarios.

As customers become increasingly demanding, and their brand loyalty continues to be challenged, ensuring that your finished goods are at the right place at the right time has never been more urgent. Under these circumstances, it is those individuals responsible for managing demand, either forecasted or real, that form the front line to exercising profitable course corrections.

In this presentation, you will learn about the unique challenges that exist on the front line of demand change management, and what specific levers individuals have at the disposal to respond with confidence.

RESEARCH IN MOTION (RIM) is a company experiencing explosive growth of volume output, staffing and manufacturing infrastructure. With a growing number of customers and shorter product lifecycles being supplied from an ever expanding and more highly contracted supply chain complex decisions need to be made in a constantly shrinking timeframe. It became obvious that existing software tools were not up to the challenge and that implementation of a decision support tool was essential.

This presentation will describe how RIM's implementation team has overcome the challenges inherent in this environment, current issues and our plans for future expansion of the capabilities enabled by RapidResponse.

The product roadmap is a key artifact not only to help Kinaxis plan its development and product delivery schedule, but more importantly to help customers plan their RapidResponse migration path. Outlined in this presentation will be an overview of the next release – RapidResponse 9.2 as well as the key product development priorities for the next 12 to 18 months.

Rapid product change, whether driven by market imperatives for product innovation and cost reduction, or by customer requirements when configuring complex products, carries significant risk to inventory costs and customer satisfaction. Product change is inherently a collaborative process as it can often impact multiple individuals in the planning and buying organizations, each having unique knowledge that needs to be considered. Attend this hands-on workshop where you will gain insights into capabilities for managing collaborative product change within RapidResponse.

This workshop applies to RapidResponse for Manufacturing.

See how to use RapidResponse to manage your extended supply chain. The session will be focused on the needs of brand owners managing outsourced supply. However, it will also be of interest to contract manufacturers and to manufacturers using feeder plants.

This will be a hands-on session describing how supply and demand are modeled through multiple enterprises. You will be working with the Multi-Enterprise Management scorecard, Multi-Enterprise Management workbook, and Multi-Enterprise Inventory workbook. You will also be introduced to tools for identifying gaps in your supply chain data.

This workshop applies to RapidResponse for Manufacturing.

Your S&OP planning process has just completed and you have a solid plan; then the phone rings and an important customer asks whether you can fulfill their large order that was not part of your forecast. Can you? Fulfillment groups — customer service, sales operations, demand managers, etc. — are drowning in this type of demand volatility. The changes to forecasts; the unexpected sales orders; the changes to existing orders — arrive from customers at an ever-increasing rate. Customer's expectations are such that you will get an answer to them within 24 hours, but yet the change requests keep flowing in. How do you cope? Kinaxis has added capabilities to RapidResponse to help the fulfillment group cope with this volatility. This workshop will explore these new capabilities and how, through a series of pre-defined resources (workbooks, task flows, scorecards), you can determine the best course of action to satisfy your customer's request; while understanding the impact your proposed actions will have on other customers and on your revenue.

This workshop applies to RapidResponse for Fulfillment.

Founded in 1984, Cisco today is a $34.9B company whose products have led in the innovation of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industry.

As Cisco's end markets evolve and grow, the pressure on its supply chain to support the business has reached a critical point. To meet these challenges, Cisco's supply chain processes are evolving to enable key capabilities that will support the next wave of growth. Cisco's demand management and planning evolution is being driven the Demand Management Excellence (DM^x) initiative. DM^x is addressing demand volatility challenges and the complexities of global supply and demand balancing by deploying best-in-class tools and processes to deliver more robust planning solutions.

The speakers will discuss Cisco's DM^x strategy, key business processes and models; and the enabling technology, including the use of RapidResponse to meet critical capabilities for supply-demand balancing and lead time projections. The speakers will also discuss the unique challenges and methodologies they used to implement RapidResponse (RR) for the entire Cisco product and contract manufacturer portfolio in less than six months.

Featuring Kinaxis customers sharing case-study examples on how they have leveraged RapidResponse to meet their manufacturing challenges and operational goals.

Featuring Kinaxis executives sharing their thoughts on RapidResponse's place within today and tomorrow's manufacturing world. Take an exclusive peek at the RapidResponse product roadmap.