i2 Global Capacity Management Solutions Deliver Enhanced Capabilities For Extended Supply Chain Capacity Visibility
As companies outsource manufacturing globally and involve additional suppliers and partners in the manufacturing process, the supply chain continues to lengthen. This extended global supply chain requires added supply chain visibility, specifically in the area of capacity. Global capacity management can lead to enhanced line-side fill-rates, improved customer service, reduced inventory, supply chain risk mitigation, business efficiency and bottom line value. Companies can use solutions from i2 Technologies, Inc. in order to gain these benefits from an effective global capacity management strategy.
i2 Global Capacity Management is designed to enable users to manage capacity across globally distributed and outsourced manufacturing networks. Manufacturers are challenged by working with global suppliers who may be thousands of miles away and they must have the ability to manage these relationships as well as their manufacturing capacity. Leveraging the i2 Global Capacity Management solution, manufacturers and suppliers can collaborate on forecasts, orders, schedules and sequences. Using this solution, manufacturers can manage supplier capacity data, collaborate on value chain capacity issues, incorporate regional allocations for shared component capacity and more efficiently manage the complete capacity management process.
"We're finding a common thread among our customers across all industries – that they need solutions to help them deal with added supply chain complexity due to more demanding customers, the global nature of today's supply chain and the need to operate their businesses more efficiently and effectively," said Kelly Thomas, vice president of i2's Automotive, Industrial, Aerospace and Defense and Metals business unit. "i2 has the benefit of leveraging its nearly 20 years of experience in this area, working closely with customers to deliver solutions to solve the world's toughest supply chain challenges."
i2 Global Capacity Management is designed to help companies:
- Synchronize and automate the material planning process in order to react quickly to changes in capacity
- Run what-if scenarios for capacity needs in order to understand constraints of various suppliers and place orders with the best equipped vendor
- Offer proactive visibility to capacity changes
- Automate capacity requirement plans
- Automatically execute on recommended schedules as well as expedite, de-expedite and cancel recommendations removing latency, errors and disputes in synchronizing capacity planning recommendations with actual execution
i2 Global Capacity Management will be available in the i2 Business Content Library, a repository of process and technology solutions based on i2's more than 20 years of supply chain domain expertise. These solutions can be utilized without modification or can help accelerate the customization and deployment of composite solutions.
About i2
i2 helps business leaders make better supply chain decisions. i2's flexible new-generation solutions are designed to synchronize demand and supply across ever-changing global business networks. i2's innovative supply chain management tools and services are pervasive in a wide cross-section of industries; 20 of the AMR Research Top 25 Global Supply Chains belong to i2 customers. Learn more at www.i2.com.
SOURCE: i2 Technologies, Inc.