Core Capabilities
Core Capabilities
- Demand planning: Forecast demand using historical sales, market signals, promotions, seasonality, and machine learning.
- Supply planning: Match demand with supplier capacity, production, transportation, and inventory constraints.
- Order management: Create, approve, transmit, confirm, modify, allocate, track, and close purchase, sales, transfer, and fulfillment orders.
- Procurement integration: Connect requisitions, purchase orders, contracts, supplier catalogs, receiving, and invoice matching.
- Inventory visibility: Provide near-real-time stock levels across warehouses, stores, plants, vehicles, suppliers, and in-transit locations.
- Inventory control: Manage reorder points, safety stock, economic order quantities, lot sizes, min/max levels, and service-level targets.
- Warehouse management: Support receiving, put-away, picking, packing, shipping, cycle counting, replenishment, labor, and space utilization.
- Transportation management: Plan shipments, select carriers, consolidate loads, optimize routes, tender freight, and manage freight payment.
- Allocation and fulfillment: Reserve inventory, prioritize orders, manage backorders, split shipments, and choose optimal fulfillment locations.
- Traceability: Track lots, serial numbers, batches, expiration dates, chain of custody, and product genealogy.
- Reverse logistics: Manage returns, repairs, recalls, refurbishment, recycling, and disposition.
- Supplier collaboration: Exchange forecasts, order acknowledgments, shipment notices, inventory data, quality events, and performance metrics.
- Analytics and control towers: Monitor exceptions, costs, delays, shortages, inventory health, supplier risk, and customer-service performance.
- Compliance and governance: Enforce approval policies, trade controls, quality requirements, documentation, auditability, and segregation of duties.
- Financial integration: Connect logistics activity to costing, landed cost, accruals, accounts payable, revenue, and working-capital reporting.