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To compete and succeed in today’s demanding marketplace, companies must create and maintain the most efficient supply chain possible. Strategic supply chain design and analysis must consider a wide range of alternatives, including site locations, product mix, transportation, inventory deployment, suppliers, cost-service levels, and constraints, as well as supply chain operations.
The i2 solution: Strategic Network Design and Analysis
i2 Supply Chain Strategist, i2’s tool, helps organizations to model, understand, and manage a more effective and profitable supply chain. i2 Supply Chain Strategist can support intelligent decision making at every stage of the supply chain, from raw materials procurement to finished goods distribution. It can be deployed to model suppliers, factories and factory processes, distribution centers, seasonal demand, transportation links, outsourcing, inventory and related costs, and constraints.
i2 Supply Chain Strategist can perform robust evaluations and plans. The solution can allow an organization to model and consider a wide range of supply chain variables in a centralized analytic repository. As a result, i2 Supply Chain Strategist can help reduce costs, while increasing speed, efficiency, and profitability.
Key capabilities of i2 Strategic Network Design and Analysis include:
- Supply chain design and infrastructure planning
- Support for strategic procurement, inventory, market, and master planning
- Mature and robust problem-solving features
- Cost representation
- An intuitive user interface
- Reporting, analysis, import, and export utilities
- Fast and simple installation to desktop PCs or laptops
i2 Strategic Network Design and Analysis can help:
- Make strategic planning tools and technologies accessible to designated users
- Provide powerful decision support at key stages of the supply chain
- Support more unified and effective monitoring and evaluations
- Help control costs while boosting supply chain speed and productivity
- Rationalize supply chain networks being combined in a merger or acquisition
- Create “what-if” scenarios around new customer contracts, outsourcing alternatives, or new suppliers
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