Demand Management Systems Architecture Features and Functions
Demand Management tools have unique and high levels of integration requirements.
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- Input, create, and update product structures, including product families, component BOM's, and recipes
- Create complementary or substitute product structures
- Create calendars from years, days, and hours
- Create planning-only constructs, planning BOM's, and calendars
- Apply time phasing, effectivity dates, and other identification to various fields
- Upload and download spreadsheet inputs
- Graphics package
- Import and export to EDI and XML for trading partners
- Open hosted, collaborative sessions for joint modeling and consensus building
- Create alerts based on variance-to-plan on various performance cells
- Integration to other supply chain, ERP, and trading partner solutions
- Provide real-time decision support, including real-time modeling and what-if capabilities
- Create user-specific rules, formulas, and algorithms
- Ability to "force" a high-level change through planning structures
- Ability to integrate with syndicated data sources
- Standards compliance to VIC's CPFAR, and RosettaNet
- Drill, sort, filter, and rotate data at each cell or data element level
- Save plans with comments
- Web services and browser-based interface for user access
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Demand Management Features and Functions
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