Supply Chain Vendor Morphs into SCEM with Response Management Vision
Michael Bittner - December 9, 2005

Background

The supply chain planning (SCP) applications market has cooled down dramatically from its high point of activity in the late 1990s. While SCP software vendors like i2 Technologies, Manugistics, Adexa, Synquest (now part of Viewlocity), and Logility pitched the benefits of integrated product suites, only a minority of tier one, leading edge companies bought into the concept and found successful results. Integrated SCP processes tries to match supply and demand across an enterprise's production and distribution operations. In a make-to-stock, assemble-to-order, and configure-to-order manufacturing environment, an application vendor's planning module is typically used to support integrated supply chain planning, usually in a centralized fashion. In other manufacturing environments, like make-to-order and build-to-order scenarios, integrated SCP is supported by a vendor's manufacturing planning and production scheduling modules...