JD Edwards & Company, a leading provider of agile, collaborative solutions for the Internet economy, recently announced real-time integration of its real-time Advanced Planning Solutions (APS) technology to its OneWorld system.
Real-time connectivity between planning and execution is essential for supply chain event management (SCEM) that allows customers to respond instantaneously to events anywhere in the supply chain. Previously, JD Edwards has offered batch integration of APS and OneWorld.
With the growth of the Internet, SCEM has become essential for companies that require immediate response to ensure the efficiency of their supply chain.
According to AMR, SCEM includes monitoring events, notifying users of potential problems in the chain, simulating the future impact of current events on the enterprise, allowing users to effectively make manual and solver-optimised changes and measuring the impact of the result.
For example, if a supplier misses a delivery, SCEM allows a company to optimally reschedule the shop floor, as well as alert the supplier management system to secure additional materials from other source, all within minutes.
Traditional batch-based solutions require four to five days to achieve the same result - thus significantly limiting the ability of a company to respond to change in an extended supply chain.
Compared to other offerings in the marketplace, JD Edwards` real-time integration of APS and OneWorld provides:
. Proven enterprise execution system with over 1 500 customers worldwide.
. Sophisticated real-time event management system capable of high-performance monitoring, simulation and decision support to users both internal and external to a company supporting over 60 alert types.
. Powerful optimisation capability that can automatically determine the best course of action while considering finite capacity, costs and profits.
. Out-of-the box integration between planning and execution at the transaction level, allowing any transaction created by OneWorld (from purchase orders to advanced shipping notices to back-order notifications) to be processed by the APS system immediately.
. Comprehensive external integration capability (XPI and XBPs) that delivers pre-packaged connectivity and collaboration to customers, trading partners and exchanges.
. Extensive business intelligence capability with pre-packaged Key Performance Indicators to measure the results of real-time, integrated supply chain processes.
This functionality delivers one of the most functionally complete SCEM offerings. Cost of ownership is minimised for customers as all components come pre-integrated from JD Edwards.
"SCEM is the hot new supply chain application, so e-businesses looking to coordinate and control supply chain activities are supporting SCEM," stated Michael Bittner in a recent AMR report. "Real-time exception-based management is crucial if a company is to succeed in distributing supply processes among trading partners." From page 21 of AMR report, "E-Business Requires Supply Chain Event Management," November 2000.
New World Pasta to use JD Edwards` real-time planning and execution features
For JD Edwards` customer New World Pasta, one of the country`s leading dry pasta manufacturer, the goal is to minimise total delivery costs of its products to customers in order to compete effectively in the consumer goods sector.
By using JD Edwards` Advanced Planning with real-time integration to the OneWorld Xe execution system, the company will dramatically enhance visibility across its entire supply chain, optimise its production forecasting and scheduling, and rapidly respond to any supply or demand changes.
"In the past, each of our five plants was on its own to produce its production schedule, then deliver against what was often inaccurate data," said Steven Johnson, director of business process design at New World Pasta.
"The real-time pass-through of information between JD Edwards` OneWorld and Advanced Planning systems will give us the power to bring data out of the silos, and allow us to optimise fulfilment of orders from all of our plants, regardless of events that occur within the supply chain."
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