Adaptive Supply Network Optimisation

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Synchronising with Partners

In today’s manufacturing industry, a sale order contains a request for multiple products and services. Instead of a single manufacturer handling the entire order fulfillment process, a dynamic community of channel partners, business units, and suppliers are involved. Fulfillment networks require immediate adaptation to new situations and unexpected development.

Real-Time Management

Capgemini’s Adaptive Supply Network (ASN) solution provides highly complex manufacturing companies -- such as automotive, high-tech, and electronics -- with the means to synchronise traditional planning and execution systems through adaptive, agent-based software. It allows companies to go above and beyond simple supply chain event management and perform processes in real-time in a flexible and situation-driven manner.

Capgemini’s Adaptive Supply Network solution is an innovative approach to supply chain management. As an agent-based solution, it is designed, built and implemented to significantly reduce inventory-driven expenses while controlling service levels and transportation costs. Typical projects include multiple sets of SKUs, inventory held at multiple network nodes, and a fulfillment process consisting of long time horizons. The solution helps companies forecast demand and price by SKU at the location level and dynamically calculate target buffer levels to achieve inventory optimisation and replenishment.

With an adaptive supply network and dynamic inventory optimisation, companies can benefit from:

• Reduced inventory carrying cost -- through higher inventory turns and increased network collaboration.
• Lower order-processing cost -- through online collaboration.
• Higher on-time delivery performance -- through reduced lead time and flexible sourcing.
• Better customer service -- through improved order matching, locating, and delivery time quotation.
• Improved customer relations and loyalty -- through faster fulfillment of customer needs.