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Supply chain planning and execution software
News Release from: SSA Global | Subject: iBaan for SCM
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 April 2002
Supply chain event management is first
solution
For supply chain management knowledge-driven enterprise strategy, this product combines software, applied business intelligence and professional services.
to be delivered Baan - the leading enterprise application provider for industrial enterprises and part of Invensys - has launched the new iBaan for Supply Chain Management (iBaan for SCM) knowledge-driven enterprise strategy iBaan for SCM combines software, applied business intelligence and professional services to help organizations maximize and improve throughput, inventory utilization, supplier relations, performance, and logistics execution and enhance procedure execution
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 24 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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iBaan for SCM is designed to help achieve optimal relationships between the key enterprise processes of sourcing, manufacturing, warehousing, transportation and fulfillment, and addresses the process, integration, collaboration and information requirements of industrial enterprises to help enable operational excellence.
This new strategy can enable organizations to offer the best total value to their customers through an optimal mix of service, price, and quality and lead-time performance while also leveraging complementary strategies such as CRM, PLM and ERP to maintain a competitive advantage.
iBaan for SCM supports collaboration across the enterprise and across multiple trading partners in the value chain, providing information that supply chain workers need to make better decisions.
Major international organizations implementing iBaan for SCM include House of Prince and Alcan Cable.
House of Prince, the European cigarette manufacturer, has successfully gone live with iBaan for SCM solutions to help manage the production of 50 million cigarettes a day.
Michael Broberg Larsen, IT Project Manager, House of Prince: "Following the implementation of our ERP solution in 1999, it was a natural decision to look at Baan for a supply chain scheduling and planning solution to manage our stock control, forecasting and capacity planning processes.
The Baan team has a high level of skill in implementing supply chain tools and we were impressed with the way the Supply Chain Solutions support consistent long-term decision making, forecasting and planning.
"We are now able to monitor actual supply chain process plans, simulate scenarios, consider constraints and analyze results, and can quickly respond to customer queries and changes, re-planning orders as conditions change.
Although we have only recently gone live with the implementation, we expect increased visibility of our supply chain processes and stock control.
For example, we are able to simulate 'what if?' scenarios for every eventuality such as problems with suppliers sending materials and manufacturing difficulties," Michael Broberg Larsen concluded.
Alcan Cable, the fully integrated manufacturer of aluminum cable, rod and strip products, has implemented iBaan Supply Chain Scheduler in its seven manufacturing sites throughout North America to help it improve supply chain responsiveness and streamline its business processes.
Guy Brassard, MIS Coordinator Director at the Shawinigan facilities of Alcan Cable said: "iBaan Supply Chain Scheduler can help us accelerate our order processing and give us the ability to synchronize and optimize our batch processing, one of the particularly critical production constraints in the cable industry, by building highly efficient schedules.
It can also help us manage our human resources more efficiently, for instance by managing a single employee who can work on multiple machines.
With these improvements we will be able to respond faster, easier and more efficiently to our customer needs.
On top of this, iBaan Supply Chain Scheduler provides the ability to graphically view schedules and offers interactive features such as the drag-and-drop functionality that allows the user to manage and change the schedules within the scheduling time fence, if necessary, according to his/her knowledge and experience." Ronald Teijken, Director, Product Marketing - Supply Chain and C-Commerce at Baan commented: "Today's complex supply chains means that collaboration is increasingly important and the advent of many new opportunities offered by web-based technologies have spurred the move into electronic collaboration.
The iBaan strategy is to deliver complete solutions based on real-time integration capabilities, information visibility and collaboration across the value chain and across organization levels.
iBaan for SCM is an integral part of this strategy, helping companies ensure timely delivery of the right products, at the right time, at the most cost-effective price through knowledge-driven collaboration between partners, suppliers and stakeholders.
"iBaan for SCM is the first open and comprehensive SCM strategy available from a single supplier, avoiding the additional implementation, training and maintenance costs of multi-vendor solutions.
At the same time, iBaan for SCM is de-coupled for integration with various existing technology environments.
Essentially, this new strategy provides the means for trading partners to collaborate interactively toward operational excellence by sharing information and improving integration of their business interactions," added Ronald Teijken.
iBaan for SCM enables manufacturing and distribution operations to be demand-driven, reducing cycle time and inefficiencies across the build process and helping ensure that an enterprise meets sales orders in an accurate, timely, efficient manner.
Providing total visibility of products, materials and inventory for optimal planning, execution and control, iBaan for SCM offers end-to-end strategic level decision support for the efficient movement of products, materials and inventory.
Baan has further extended its Supply Chain Management knowledge-driven enterprise strategy with the formation of a dedicated strategic SCM business unit.
The new SCM business unit will assist customers to achieve optimal relationships between the key enterprise processes of sourcing, manufacturing, warehousing, transportation and fulfillment.
Formally integrating CAPS Logistics and leveraging functionality from iBaan Logistics and the iBaan for SCM solution with expertise from strategic alliance organizations, the Baan SCM business unit will enable companies to achieve operational excellence in supply chain management.
Barry Wilderman, Senior Vice President, Application Delivery Strategies at META Group said: "To help achieve supply chain operational excellence, organizations are looking for a holistic view of the supply chain that emphasizes the importance and dependencies of all trading partners' interacting business processes.
Internet-enabled solutions, such as iBaan, bring effectiveness to this supply chain concept by providing the means for trading partners to collaborate interactively towards operational excellence, sharing information and tightly integrating their business interactions." iBaan for SCM is part of the iBaan suite of Internet-enabled solutions that combines proven Baan technology with new developments to enable customers to take significant steps towards seamlessly integrating systems and processes.
It provides end-users with personalized and easy-to-use information, and empowers businesses to collaborate with their customers and suppliers over the Internet.
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