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Superior Operations Performance to Solve Today's Problems Today

Operations performance is increasingly defined by how fast you act and how well you react to supply chain volatility caused by real world variances in demand, supply and product. The effectiveness of decisions and actions in response to these variances can drive customer satisfaction and retention, dramatically impact inventory control and strongly influence business profitability or margin loss.

To achieve superior operations performance, manufacturers need to develop more accurate supply chain plans and respond rapidly and effectively to constant changes in all areas of their extended supply chains.

Kinaxis™ RapidResponse™ delivers the supply chain visibility and essential tools to drive breakthroughs in operations performance across key business processes such as supply chain visibility, demand management, supply management, sales and operations planning (S&OP), supply chain risk management and lean manufacturing.

Improve Customer Satisfaction

Changes in purchasing behavior and increasing global competition have created unprecedented levels of demand volatility and critical demand management challenges. Developing more accurate demand plans and responding quickly and accurately can determine whether you retain your customers or win new business. Kinaxis RapidResponse addresses these challenges:

• Multi-enterprise visibility to aggregated end-item and component demand shows the impact of change throughout the supply chain.
• Order promising to schedule ship dates enables assessment of "do-ability" and risk of a customer request for improvement in unacceptable delivery dates.
• Consensus forecast development and change response identifies the feasibility and impact of a new or changed forecast and details actions required to support the forecast.

Improve Inventory Control and Costs

Globally outsourced supply chains combined with efforts to reduce inventory have created frequent unexpected supply allocation and supply management challenges. Responding quickly and profitably can determine whether you meet customer satisfaction and internal objectives. Kinaxis RapidResponse addresses these challenges:

• Extended supply chain visibility to on-hand inventory, inter-site supply and scheduled receipts details allocations to customer orders and identifies the impact of any changes.
• On-time order delivery highlights effects of delayed supply to mitigate the impact and respond using order splitting, expediting, alternate sources or transferring parts from other sites.
• Visibility to all production orders, including those "releasable", facilitates resolution of material shortages by delaying non-critical orders, splitting production orders and transferring supply.

Innovate to Drive Demand and Profits

The pace of innovation continues to accelerate. Quality and competitive pressures drive frequent engineering changes and new product introductions. Kinaxis RapidResponse addresses these introduction timing challenges:

• Upward/downward visibility to all BOMs across all sites provides insight and analysis through multiple levels of the supply chain.
• Common/unique analysis analyzes multiple BOMs to validate production or outsourced BOMs with design.
• Standard cost rollup calculates labor, material and overhead costs at all levels of the BOM.
• Engineering change management identifies excess inventory for parts with pending changes since the effectivity date.

Find out how global companies such as Casio, Research In Motion (RIM) and Toshiba are using RapidResponse to improve planning, responsiveness, on-time delivery and inventory control, and reduce operating costs, cycle times and liability claims in all areas of their business.