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ADTRAN is a leading supplier of network access equipment for networking and telecommunications applications. The company implemented i2 solutions to decrease excess inventory and free up working capital.
ADTRAN leverages i2 solutions to better manage its material requirements planning and business processes. Using these solutions, the company reports it has improved inventory visibility and planning cycle times. ADTRAN is able to more effectively manage its material requirements planning and business processes. Using these solutions, the company reports it has improved inventory visibility and planning cycle times. The company also has enhanced its inventory visibility and benefits from daily inventory feeds from its contract manufacturers. This enables the company to see the impact of supply from its manufacturers and suppliers to gain complete visibility into its supply chain and determine how to best accommodate customer demand. This has allowed ADTRAN to become even more responsive to its customers.
ADTRAN performs a regular what-if analysis to evaluate its supply chain from a time and cost perspective, allowing the company to examine the impact of various scenarios across the supply chain. As a result of using i2 solutions, ADTRAN has become even more agile and more responsive to customers, which is a significant step toward the company’s goal of a demand- driven supply network.
For more information on ADTRAN’s implementation of i2 solutions, read the success story.
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Nicholas Piramal India Limited (NPIL), a leading pharmaceutical company in India, has grown significantly through various acquisitions since its founding in 1988. NPIL implemented i2 solutions to centralize its planning activities and forecast its domestic business activities.
NPIL leverages i2 solutions across the organization to load its transaction data from its ERP system into the i2 software and run a complete model forecast. Using i2 solutions, the company can provide better forecast accuracy and improvements. Final forecasting data can be leveraged for production planning and reporting across the company’s sales information systems.
The company reports the successful use of these solutions has resulted in a 20 percent improvement in forecast accuracy and a reduction in material inventories by almost 30 percent.
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VF Corporation is a global leader in branded apparel including jeanswear, outdoor products, intimate apparel, image apparel, and sportswear. To meet the requirements of its ever changing business environment, VF implemented i2 tools for production planning and order promising.
VF uses i2 solutions for master planning and capacity planning, allocation planning and order promising, and reporting. Leveraging these solutions for sophisticated supply chain planning as well as order promising and workflow development, VF models multiple complex demand driven supply chains each with varying degrees of inventory and capacity constraints. VF reports it has saved millions of dollars leveraging i2 solutions across its business. The company reduced its planning cycle time by 20 percent, increased customer service levels by 20 percent and reduced obsolescence. The company also has been able to improve its on-time shipping performance and decrease inventory levels. VF recognizes value in more accurate plans and better visibility as well as improved efficiencies in the utilization of resources and quality of inventory. Using these solutions, VF operates a truly demand-driven supply chain, reacts to changes in product demand quickly, and identifies and reacts to potential supply chain problems promptly. The accuracy of inventories and the ability to respond to the most up-to-date demand are critical to the success of VF’s global supply chain. Working with i2, VF better manages and effectively uses its resources to support its business, taking all lead times and capacity constraints into consideration.
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