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Meeting customer demand is key to succeeding in today’s dynamic economy. Companies must know where inventory is and how to get it to the end consumer most profitably. Understanding where supply is allocated within an enterprise and across channels can improve customer service and profitability.
The i2 Solution: i2 Demand Fulfillment
i2 Demand Fulfillment is a high-performance order-promising solution that is designed to deliver benefits including increased order capture, delivery confidence, full supply utilization, and exceptional customer service. The solution has powerful applications in buy/sell transactions where the question of product availability must be answered quickly. The proven effectiveness of the solution results from its rich supply chain model, extensive representation of business rules, and optimized supply/demand matching techniques. When promising an order, i2 Demand Fulfillment is designed to exploit its highly accurate picture of available supply. The flexible allocation of the supply to the demand channels ensures exceptional customer-service levels and excellent business results.
Key capabilities of i2 Demand Fulfillment can include:
- Capable-to-promise and configure-to-order with extensive flexibility for modeling manufacturing constraints
- Accurate modeling of a bill of material or bill of distribution with as many levels of components and sub-components as necessary
- Support for allocated ATP (AATP), with extensive flexibility for modeling the allocations and intelligent decision making about respecting and changing allocations during order promising.
Key benefits of i2 Demand Fulfillment can include:
- Increased order capture, delivery confidence, full supply utilization, and exceptional customer service
- Highly accurate picture of available supply solution
- Improved ability to promise more, deliver better
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