Abstract:

Most large and medium size companies have supply chain planning software of some kind.

But how many of those companies are truly satisfied with their planning applications? Research from Gartner and others suggests that number is low. What’s more, even most large companies have many holes in their planning software portfolios, and must work around those gaps with spreadsheets and other home grown approaches. Often, more of these workarounds are needed over time as the environment changes and the planning software does not.

A better way is coming.

Advanced analytics are offering a bold new approach to traditional supply chain planning requirements. Kellogg's, A-B InBev and other supply chain leaders have developed powerful, tailored analytics to solve supply chain planning problems, based on detailed models of their supply chains, solutions that fill in the white space in traditional planning software deployments.

They are solving specific problems in new ways that drive competitive advantage, from greatly improved inventory deployment to advanced supply-demand matching to optimal transportation routing and much, much more.

What’s more, the entire paradigm of supply chain software deployment may be changing, from a "heavy" model that locks users in place and lacks flexibility, to more of an apps-based approach that delivers much higher levels of agility and problem-solving precision while offering fewer limitations in terms of designing planning solutions over time.

Please join us for this outstanding and provocative new Videocast, in which we will explore this new exciting paradigm for supply chain planning in detail, how it can be applied in conjunction with existing planning infrastructure, and why after almost three decades of one planning approach, we may at last be on the verge of a whole new model.

Featuring SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore, Toby Brzoznowski, executive vice president at LLamasoft.

Not to be missed by anyone interested in supply chain planning technology and trends.