Advance your supply planning capabilities

Improve planning across all supply processes, fulfilling demand targets and capacity requirements Create an accurate foundation of data on which to perform all supply planning activities and fully integrate strategic sourcing and procurement planning, production planning, and inventory planning in a single, user-friendly platform.

Support strategic sourcing decisions

Easily manage make or buy, off-shoring, re-shoring, and shared services decisions.

Easily define your sourcing strategy

Put in place a sourcing strategy for each category, acknowledging supply market analysis, sourcing scope, policy imperatives, guidelines, and pre-qualification criteria.

Streamline processes

From bid submission by suppliers to contract stipulation, within a workflow-driven, collaborative environment.

Automate bid management

Take advantage of automatic valuation, sorting, ranking, and shortlisting of bids according to pre-uploaded criteria and key buying factors.

Quickly conduct vendor scoring

Exploit clustering and analytics capabilities to create supplier tiers according to codified criteria (i.e. share of spending, level of criticality, geographical coverage, and size) and to rank suppliers’ performance according to KPI’s and business targets to ensure you are getting full value from them.

Increase the depth of your reporting

Exploit BI capabilities for the generation of reports and dashboards on bids and key value drivers for contracts.

Develop procurement planning

Generate a procurement plan within a collaborative environment across all supply chain processes.

Take a fully integrated approach

Generate purchasing planning aimed at operating expenditure reduction, acknowledging demand, production, and warehouse planning.

Augment your plans with predictive insights

Strengthen procurement planning activities through the use of a predictive analytics engine with a machine learning approach.

Enable real-time re-planning

Manage purchasing re-planning cycles on a real-time basis triggered by effective inputs from supply chain processes.

Gain instant performance insights

Take advantage of reports and dashboards which support gap analysis between forecasted and actual figures.

Improve category management

Support all category management process steps and governance allowing for SKU rationalization.

Reduce complexity

Exploit BI and analysis capabilities to correctly define spend categories and SKUs.

Improve governance

Exploit simulation and scenario analysis features to decide ownership and governance attribution across the Sourcing Function (i.e. regional vs global departments).

Utilize market intelligence

Support market intelligence on new products, changes in product specifications, and products out of production.

Undertake comprehensive cost analysis

Use clustering techniques to conduct cost analysis by category.

Enhance capacity & production planning

Streamline capacity & production planning from strategy to execution to properly target business goals.

Create a fully informed production strategy

Put in place a production strategy in terms of volume thresholds, efficiency, productivity, and economies of scale targets compatible with business sustainability and value creation objectives.

Manage production footprint with ease

Support footprint definition across geographies according to outsourcing and off-shoring/re-shoring choices, taking into consideration the layout of your warehouse and supplier/customer locations.

Increase the effectiveness of capacity & production planning

Drive your master production schedule, matching capacity requirements within a multi-dimensional and driver-based planning process that acknowledges demand, procurement, and inventory planning.

Look after re-planning cycles in real-time

Manage re-planning cycles on a real-time basis triggered by effective inputs from supply chain processes.

Detect gaps in performance

Take advantage of reports and dashboards which support gap analysis between forecasted and actual figures.

Modernize your inventory planning

Streamline warehousing practice through inventory planning which orchestrates the inflow and outflow of raw materials, semi-finished products, and finished products across the entire supply chain.

Link your inventory strategy with business goals

Put in place an inventory strategy in terms of stock thresholds, rotation efficiency, obsolescence, and scrapping rate targets compatible with business sustainability and value creation objectives.

Define your warehouse footprint with ease

Support the definition of your warehouse footprint according to outsourcing choice, production footprint, and customer/supplier locations.

Manage end-to-end inventory

Plan inventory inflows and outflows, defining safety/buffer stock thresholds, conceiving replenishment criteria, and acknowledging demand, procurement, and capacity & production planning.

Conduct re-planning cycles in real-time

Manage inventory re-planning cycles on a real-time basis triggered by effective inputs from supply chain processes.

Extract business insights from your reports

Exploit native platform reporting features to create reports and dashboards which support gap analysis between forecasted and actual figures, relative to variables and key value drivers such as inventory flows, stock ruptures, inventory rotation, and workforce productivity.