Product Suite

Forecast by SKU, cost, item, currencies, margin, country, channel, customer location, etc.
Drive inventory and safety stock levels according to customer requirements using the Service Level Optimizer

Project and correct inventory shortfalls and surpluses on a daily, weekly or monthly basis
Create time-phased inventory plans by item, resulting in an optimal inventory level

Sales & Operations Planning

Identify and solve business issues before they become liabilities
Track KPIs (key performance indicators), perform gap analysis and optimize sales plans

Retail Planning

Allow store-level profiling through cluster methods
User-defined formulas for identifying performance measures by each retailer

Collaboration

Automate and manage the information exchange between buyers and sellers
An event calendar provides a consolidated view of each trading partners’ plan

Advanced Planning & Scheduling

Plan across multiple facilities managing critical manufacturing operation constraints
Accurately predict the materials and resources needed for each job and when it will be completed

Supply Chain Glossary - W

WAN

Acronym for wide area network.

A device connected to a bar-code reader to identify a bar code.

Describes the problem of where the bottleneck seems to move around from one resource to another. Wandering bottlenecks are "pseudo-constraints." Wandering bottlenecks can be caused by policies such as large lot sizes or transfer batch that is equal to process batch.

Demand Solutions

Product Suite

Forecast Management

Requirements Planning

Sales & Operations Planning

Retail Planning

Collaboration

Advanced Planning & Scheduling

Supply Chain Glossary - W

Supply Chain Glossary - W

WAN

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