ForceFlux Supply Chain Management
ForceFlux Supply Chain Management combines best in class solutions with industry-specific functionality, giving you the power to plan and execute your supply chain strategies faster and more profitably, from strategic and tactical planning to execution. With analytics at the core, you'll get the tools you need to optimize your end-to-end supply chain and harness the power of social networking to collaborate more effectively internally, as well as with customers, partners, and suppliers. Gain greater visibility into your supply chain to optimize utilization of resources and labor, improve inventory and shipping accuracy, deliver the perfect order every time, and respond faster to customer opportunities and market fluctuations.
The ForceFlux SCM advantage
ForceFlux SCM customers gain:
- 30% higher gross margins
- 35% higher customer retention
- 25% less inventory
- 23% higher perfect order scores
- 35% shorter cash-to-cycle times
- 25% increase in revenue
ForceFlux SCM solutions help you with:
Maximizing Profits
- See the profit impact of your supply chain decisions in real time
Full Cycle Optimization
- Get end-to-end optimization, from forecast through to planning, scheduling, and execution
Analytics
- Analyze your supply chain, manufacturing options, and relevant constraints and choose the plan that makes best use of your assets
Communication
- Collaborate more effectively with customers, partners, and suppliers using the power of the Internet and social networking
Flow Design
- Create the optimal supply chain network and adapt the network to keep pace with changes in your business
Specialized by industry
ForceFlux SCM offers industry-specific functionality for a range of industries, including:
Consumer Goods
- Get the right balance between demand and supply, optimize warehouse stocks, better controls incoming and outgoing flows, and be equipped to rapidly adapt to change
Chemical and Pharmaceutical
- Respond faster and with more certainty to tenders and PARs. Control your supply chain costs and optimize the use of your production capacity. Effectively plan co- and by-products, and determine the least-cost formulation
Health Care
- Improve collaboration with customers and suppliers, and better manage supply chain complexity to drive higher service levels, lower inventory, and lower supply chain costs
Hi Tech & Electronics
- Optimize your supply chain globally, respond to changes faster, and improve collaboration across your entire supply chain
Logistics Providers
- Make faster and better decisions to achieve more perfect orders and higher customer service levels
Oil & Gas
- Optimize the supply chain, from forecasting to production to customer delivery to boost profits. Account for volume-based constraints, such as tanks, to maximize throughput, improving productivity and reducing waste
Retail
- Reduce operational costs and improve efficiency, use collaboration to interact with your supply chain partners, and gain clear, reliable, real time information about your suppliers
ForceFlux SCM Capabilities
S&OP process modeling
Model your own S&OP business process in the system and enforce it using embedded task management and alerting
"What if" scenario planning
Create different demand plan scenarios and compare with different supply plan scenarios—each with its own financial analysis of sales revenues and costs—and choose the plan that best serves your customer demands and your business
Integration with any ERP
Get pre-packaged integration with ForceFlux's ERP solutions, or, using its open platform, easily integrate with any non-ForceFlux ERP or specialist demand and planning system
Embedded analytics
Obtain deep insight into your operational plan at any grouping level-company, product, customer, geography. Analyze forecasts, actuals, inventory, and supply plans, and view in any units, sales value, or costs
Margin-driven supply chain management wasn't even possible a few years ago, but today it can make the difference between leading your industry and falling behind. Competitive companies need advanced systems that let them see and act instantly on all of the metrics, KPIs, costs, and margins that make a business consistently successful.
ForceFlux SCM solutions help you deal clearly with the complexity of your supply chain at the appropriate level of detail without compromise, and help you understand the impact of the decisions you make.
ForceFlux Supply Chain is a comprehensive suite of integrated applications that offer the best tools for achieving top performance in a critical area of supply chain planning. Together they give you a complete picture of how well your supply chain is working and how you can make it work better.
Your ERP system addresses your company's present and past. But lasting success depends on your ability to deal with the future. The unparalleled breadth and depth of ForceFlux Supply Chain helps you address the challenges of tomorrow.
Streamline information flow across all departments and all levels of your company to create a comprehensive plan based on vertical and horizontal collaboration and close the gap between operations and executive business strategy.
Demand Planning
With powerful features for increasing forecast accuracy, ForceFlux Demand Planning combines a Demand Forecasting module with sophisticated forecasting algorithms, Inventory Planner, and Replenishment Planner modules, a Collaboration module to keep all forecasts in your company synchronized, and a Sales and Operations Reporting module to monitor the accuracy and effectiveness of your plans.
Advanced Planning
Ensure that your supply chain plan is the best one for your business. ForceFlux Advanced Planning does the work for you, calculating all trade offs and ensuring that you have an optimized manufacturing plan that satisfies all constraints and makes the best use of your assets.
Advanced Scheduling
Combining powerful constraint-based logic with optimization, ForceFlux Advanced Scheduling simultaneously schedules all operations on all production lines, including any interdependencies, to deliver a totally synchronized schedule-down to the minute.
Supplier Exchange
An advanced, web-enabled supplier relationship management solution facilitating effective, efficient collaboration and execution with suppliers, regardless of where they are, what systems they use, or what language they speak