Compare ICON-SCM

Features & Benefits

Only ICON-SCM supply chain management solutions deliver the fast, powerful, and integrated capabilities your company needs to address today’s global supply chain challenges.

 

End-to-end demand-supply planning capability

• Flexible, multi-tier planning model for simple to extended supply chains
• Multi-level bills of materials
• Substitutions for products, sub-assemblies, and components
• Multiple levels of production capacities
• Alternate sources of supply
• Inventory buffers based on fixed or dynamic policies
• Forecast and customer orders with forecast consumption
• Strategic priorities and rules for demand fulfillment and supply allocations

 

Fast planning performance

• Integrated demand-supply planning process
• Large end-to-end plans run in a few minutes
• Fast what-if simulations

 

Highly efficient demand-supply matching algorithm

• Full pegging of demand to supply with highly efficient utilization of supply

• Aligns multi-level materials and capacity constraints

• Uses up substitute parts and alternate supplies

• Provides visibility to critical shortages

• Plans engineering change dates that minimize excess inventory

• Increases customer shipments with less inventory

• Increases capacity utilization across network

 

Order promising and fulfillment

• Efficient build-to-order planning considers multiple constraints on multiple levels

• Efficient configure-to-order planning considers multiple order lines planned as a group

• Plans order pull-in requests without risking original promise dates

• Part substitutions and ECO use-up

• Provides visibility to critical shortages

• Flexible demand priorities, plan-on-plan stability

• Fast, what-if simulations

• Order release execution capability integrated with ERP and other systems 

 

Supply liability management

• Calculates component liability across all sites based on current and past forecasts for top level products

• Compares calculated liability to current on-hand and on-order supply at all locations and provide alerts to exceptions

• Provides historical materials plans and waterfall reports for detailed investigations 

 

Integrated planning and supply collaboration

• Closed-loop planning and supplier collaboration

• Web-based, easy-to-use collaboration solution with optional MS Excel user interface

• Highly scalable and rapidly deployed to hundreds of suppliers

 

Multi-enterprise data integration

• Reliable integration with ERP systems and multiple external partners

• Standardized data management application to integrate data from multiple sources and provide for automated data transformations, validations, alerts, and uploads

 

Easy to implement, use, and adapt to change

• Flexible, configurable, and adaptable to changing supply chain models

• Easy integration of planning results with user-defined spreadsheets and reports

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