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Today's Manufacturer Requires a Real Time Supply Chain

With rising customer expectations and constant pressure to reduce costs, manufacturers today require a real time supply chain to thrive. Kinaxis™ RapidResponse™ is enabling leading global brand owners and manufacturers across hundreds of locations to gain competitive advantage. By responding rapidly and effectively to constant changes across the global supply chain, companies can realize reduced inventory costs, shrinking cycle times, and improved customer service levels resulting in top-line growth and bottom-line results.

Response Management for Your Industry

RapidResponse is Response Management manufacturing software that achieves a real time supply chain through collaborative response and action. Response Management provides unique value across diverse industries:

Electronics, EMS and High-Tech manufacturers operate in a highly volatile environment with rapidly changing components, complex product configurations and last minute customer changes. By supporting collaborative review of "what-if" alternatives and sharing supply and demand information from multiple, disparate ERP and legacy systems, RapidResponse enables rapid and accurate customer commitments that increase revenue and allow for optimal inventory management to improve profitability and drive down obsolescence.

Aerospace and Defense manufacturers improve global supply chain visibility and benefit from unique industry-specific features that address the most costly inventory and production challenges.

Automotive manufacturers can rapidly align supply and demand with instant and continuous supply chain visibility. Insight into component consumption and brand owner inventories across their extended supply chains lets them efficiently manage last minute configuration and other changes.

Industrial equipment manufacturers use Response Management to compress cycle times, drive lags out of the manufacturing process and optimize inventory management for better overall performance. Supply chain agility and customer responsiveness help achieve and maintain competitive advantage through a real time supply chain.

Medical Device manufacturers are improving effectiveness and speed of the fulfillment network and supply chain response. The adaptable capabilities of RapidResponse, its collaborative scoring of "what-if" alternatives and connectivity into existing enterprise applications help medical device manufacturers improve customer service levels, and streamline customer and supplier relationships.

Ship to Retail manufacturers also experience ongoing changes that require constant alignment in supply and demand. Visibility into the global fulfillment network and supply chain together with instant assessment and collaborative scoring of multiple action alternatives help drive better decisions, improve customer service and increase supplier collaboration.

Other Discrete Manufacturing organizations use RapidResponse to bridge the ever present gap between supply chain planning and supply chain realities.

To find out how RapidResponse drives supply chain collaboration, collaborative response and manufacturing action in your industry, contact us.