Plan Globally, Fulfill Locally

Distributed operations. Multiple manufacturing plants. Complex business structures. Poor demand stream visibility. Inefficient production and supply utilization. It can be challenging to cost-effectively fulfill customer orders in a complex supply chain.

Glovia Supply Chain Management - Fulfill:

• Improves accuracy and reliability of demand forecasts
• Improves customer service levels
• Reduces order error rates
• Increases supply chain visibility and responsiveness
• Compresses planning cycle times
• Increases on-time delivery performance
• Reduces order fulfillment costs
• Improves production utilization
• Decreases excess inventory levels and stock outs
• Minimizes demand change disruptions on production

In theory, order fulfillment is simple. Match demand with production and ship the finished product. In reality, it is much different.

As your business grows – expanding into new markets, adding new products, opening new productions facilities – your supply chain becomes more complex. With many different demand streams to account for and multiple production choices, you can lose focus on how to most cost-effectively fulfill customer orders. You need a solution that helps you get a complete picture of your demand so you can figure out the best way to have it produced.

Improving Global Supply Chains

In addition to helping you plan your production, Glovia Supply Chain Management - Fulfill also helps you make the most effective use of enterprise-wide resources to meet demand and improve order fulfillment. It aggregates your enterprise-wide demand and intelligently allocates it to individual production facilities based on your strategic business objectives, such as cost reduction or customer service, while still allowing those facilities to determine the optimal way to meet demand.

The result is an effective blend of centralized control and localized optimization that helps you get the most from your supply chain – increasing supply chain visibility, improving responsiveness, compressing planning times and increasing customer service levels.

Glovia's fulfillment capabilities include solutions for demand, supply and order fulfillment management:

Glovia's demand management solution enables you to create a comprehensive, enterprise-wide view of total demand by aggregating forecast and customer order data from sales, marketing, channels and customers. It provides complete visibility into total item demand and demand allocation, as well as the ability to make forecast adjustments and drill down to detailed information.

Designed specifically for companies with multiple product lines and multiple production facilities, Glovia's demand management solution also incorporates real-time capable-to-promise (CTP) functionality, allowing you to accurately commit to customer orders and forecasts. Additionally, it automatically allocates demand to specific production facilities based on customer delivery date or manufacturing cost.

Glovia's supply management solution places demand in the correct production facility based on available capacity and inventory levels, while considering cost or customer delivery date. The solution enables you to optimize your operations to meet demand and allows you to review and adjust how orders are allocated to production facilities.

The new supply management solution provides you with the flexibility you need to meet changing customer demand while minimizing any impacts on the plant floor.

Glovia also includes a comprehensive solution for managing the entire order fulfillment business process, enabling you to synchronize orders with planned production. Using a memory-resident, constraint-based optimization engine, Glovia's solution determines the best possible supply scenario for given demand. The planning engine takes into account global resources and commitments, including capacity, inventory, orders, critical resources as well as cross-plant and plant-to-customer lead times.

The order fulfillment solution includes real-time available-to-promise (ATP) functionality as well as sophisticated business rules that allow you to instantly offer alternative configurations and substitutions to meet customer delivery dates.