Delivery Scheduling Software analyzes material requirements.
Press Release Summary:
By automating complex and error-prone process of material delivery schedules, Elemica Delivery Schedule enables organizations to immediately detect and notify critical demand changes for effective response planning. Built on SOA architecture with maintainable, extensible code, program provides user selectable data matching algorithms and planning horizons; self-serve visibility, process insight, and audit capabilities; and flexible business process alerting.
Original Press Release:
Elemica Introduces Delivery Schedule that Automates Analysis of Material Requirements for Improved Demand Response to Customer Order Changes
EXTON, PA – Elemica, the leading Supply Chain Operating Network provider for the process industries, introduces a powerful new solution, Elemica Delivery Schedule, helping large industrial manufacturers master the complexities of varying demand signals across global organizations. By automating the complex and error-prone process of material delivery schedules, organizations can immediately detect and notify critical demand changes allowing for more effective response planning.
“Increased demand variability, global material sourcing, leaner supply chains, cost volatility, and competitive pressures have altered supply chain management requirements in fundamental ways,” said Gary Neights, Director of Product Management at Elemica. “This is forcing organizations to adopt new strategies and tools for forecasting and demand response.”
Today’s leaders of demand-driven supply chain networks are creating value by automating business processes across demand and supply management. The challenge is complexity and variation of demand across global enterprises. For example, automotive companies have different requirements than consumer packaged goods manufacturing or retail organizations. Forecasting approaches and lead times can vary by plant and product for a single customer. Traditionally, significant ERP projects are needed to automate the delivery schedule planning and fulfillment processes.
With Elemica’s Delivery Schedule solution, global suppliers master the complexities of varying demand signals by automating the analysis of material requirement schedules, or delivery schedules, sent from manufacturers. Automation of these complex processes leads to fewer missed or rushed shipments, immediate detection and notification of critical demand changes allowing for more effective response planning, and auditable results.
Process industry manufacturers, who supply global customers whose manufacturing schedules and requirements change frequently in response to changing customer demand, benefit from Delivery Schedule. Traditionally, manufacturers communicate evolving material requirements, or delivery schedules, to suppliers on a daily basis. Customer service and supply chain planning organizations want to receive these demand signals in near real-time to optimize their delivery schedules and “just-in-time” processing. These requirements are then incorporated into new orders, changes to existing orders, or forecast orders. Automating the analysis of the schedules with Elemica’s Delivery Schedule allows suppliers to respond error-free to demand signals faster.
Some of the key features Delivery Schedule provides supply chain planning and order processing organizations are:
Global business process management
Individually configurable settings at the product – lane level
User selectable data matching algorithms and planning horizons
Self-serve visibility, process insight, and audit capabilities
Flexible business process alerting
Automated setups, with new product alerting
Flexible order grouping (i.e. location, date, product)
Shipment processing
Self-serve set-ups and maintenance
Built on a SOA architecture with maintainable, extensible code
Elemica’s Delivery Scheduling solution is highly configurable to address operational issues in a variety of industries, such as short truck hauls in the European markets, requirements changing inside contractually agreed lead times, and packaging units which complicate requirements matching. Supply chain planning and order processing organizations that roll out Delivery Schedule will benefit from being able to easily tackle the faster pace of change in demand, real-time response to material requirement changes, and elimination of “just-in-case” buffer inventories, all leading to a better bottom line.
About Elemica
Elemica’s Supply Chain Operating Network is designed to give clients greater control over their global supply chains. Capturing transaction data, across all trading partners, and translating it into actionable information is key to driving value out of the supply chain. By combining powerful SmartLink business process applications with a robust QuickLink Network, Elemica solutions improve operational efficiency, lower costs, and decrease working capital. Founded in 2000, Elemica today processes nearly $200B in annual transactions across more than 5,000 process industry trading partners. Elemica’s global operations are headquartered outside Philadelphia and include offices in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Frankfurt, London, Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo. Clients include BASF, BP, Continental, The Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, LANXESS, Michelin, Rhodia, Shell, Sumitomo Chemical, and Yokohama. For more information, visit www.elemica.com.
