The intensity of the business arena clearly illustrates the importance of a highly responsive supply chain. A company needs the ability to swiftly evolve in accordance with change, making it essential that their supply chain has the in-built flexibility to respond with the minimum of upheaval.
Lean and agile supply chains are key in meeting today’s challenges of demand and supply uncertainties, cost reductions, and complexity. IFS’ SCM solution lets you focus on customer value by creating truly demand-driven supply networks. A comprehensive supply chain management solution helps you manage your supply network with your own resources for manufacturing and distribution in collaboration with external resources such as sub-contractors, partners and suppliers. With IFS SCM, you gain the flexibility to achieve a dynamic balance between efficiency and responsiveness.
Flexible planning through transparent integration and collaboration IFS’ supply chain management solution lets your company achieve a balance between supply and demand by providing dynamic planning capabilities. Flexible planning tools, transparency and collaboration let you see the total plan, and where necessary, access the plans of other nodes in the network. Whenever you need to, you can make required changes in terms of supply, forecast and demand or planning data.
Execute with excellence, in harmony with your supply chain strategy or execution mode To achieve the right balance between efficiency and responsiveness, it is important to have execution capabilities that support a wide range of supply chain strategies. Additionally, the flexibility to quickly and easily switch between or mix the different modes enables greater returns on investment and profitability.
Manage your performance and continuously improve your supply chain A good plan is not enough. It must be executed properly as well, and you must make certain your strategy is working as you planned. With a good analysis of relevant information within the supply network, and the right tools for making any necessary changes, you can find any deviations and act swiftly to improve performance.
A complete solution encompassing strategic planning, management, and execution stages within any supply network IFS Applications is a complete solution for supply chain management and is aligned with the general principles of the Supply Chain Council’s SCOR model. It assists in collaboration and in synchronization of information and physical flows in the chain. With IFS SCM, all parties act as an integrated virtual enterprise.
Value Chain Collaboration The ability to collaborate via business processes that exchange information between selected partners creates the opportunity to make the most of shared knowledge.
