Supply Collaboration

Supply Collaboration reduces supply chain variability by sharing demand and supply forecast with customers and suppliers across multiple tiers.

Supply Collaboration allows buyers to share production plans, forecasts, and commitments, allowing suppliers to be more responsive when meeting demand requirements from thousands of miles away. With a high level of communication in the cloud, companies can improve on-time delivery rates to customers and adapt to rapidly changing demand without adding to inventory costs. Supply Collaboration aligns supply and demand across tiers.

What's Included ?

Supply planning collaboration

Real-time collaboration on capacity plans, forecasts, and supply schedules. Ensure capacity and resources will meet forecasted demand and identify potential problems. Alert trading partners to demand changes.
Tier 2 collaboration

Tier 2 supplier collaboration on forecasts, plans, and commitments. Track actual orders against commitments and receive alerts in the event of potential pre-orders, over-consumption, under-utilization, or excess.

Features

Ability to share forecasts and confirm capacity with suppliers and customers
Complex, multi-tier collaboration
Electronic management of tier 2 commitments and reservations
Automated tracking of production, actual usage, and on-hand inventory versus commitment or reservation quantities
Ability to identify and manage material excess
Planning accuracy measurement by comparing orders to forecasts
Alerts when supply cannot meet forecasted expectations, under-utilization, or excess of tier 2 materials

Benefits

Improves margins through postponed finished goods decisions
Improves on-time delivery rates and in-stocks as suppliers are better positioned to meet demand
Allows faster reaction to demand and capacity changes
Lowers cost of goods sold through collaborative issuance of capacity projections and commitments
Improves forecast planning accuracy
Improves use of excess inventory