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Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM) |
“A consideration of all possible occurring events and factors
that can cause a disruption in a supply chain. With SCEM possible
scenarios can be created and solutions can be planned."
Increasingly, competition is not company versus
company but supply chain versus supply chain. As a result their supply
chain event management practices must continuously evolve to deliver
faster, more efficient solutions at lower costs.
The Challenges
The supply chain solutions that exist in many organizations are focused on post-event activities. By design, these solutions do not provide real-time visibility into supply chain processes. In order to fully realize the competitive advantages of an automated supply chain a solution must:
Extend the efficiencies of an optimized supply chain beyond the supply chain application itself to other mission-critical, enterprise applications with real-time information. This visibility both within and beyond the supply chain should provide pre-emptive actionable knowledge that directly impacts critical processes.
Push the enterprise application visibility beyond the enterprise to include suppliers, customers and others. Provide real-time information to prevent bottlenecks and supply-chain disruptions.
The Solution
Categoric's technology works within any SCEM environment to pull needed information from every data source in the enterprise (via XML, HTTP, SQL, Triggers or APIs). It then pushes relevant information wherever it needs to go - e-mail, mobile phone, PDA, SMS, pager, fax, Web, etc. - and can escalate the delivery anywhere if needed. Parallel to issuing event notifications, Categoric's Event Management platform also integrates events from system to system, so as to act as an event-broker, where business rules dictate automatic updates of systems or data interchanges with trading partners (e.g. automatic Purchase Orders, Payment Confirmations, Proof of Delivery etc).
Typical SCEM Benefit provided by using Categoric
- Creates efficiency by sharing relevant information across all functions: sales, supply, production, distribution, transportation, service, etc.
- Providing real-time information to prevent bottlenecks and supply-chain disruptions.
- Increases internal/external supply chain synchronization through better communication among partners across the extended supply chain
- Eliminates costly errors and delays by increasing responsiveness to unexpected events and problems
- Speeds proactive decision-making by keeping up with critical events in real time, allowing managers to address potentially dangerous trends early
- Provides sophisticated tracking for long-term insight into common fluctuations and errors that interfere with smooth operations
- Improves customer satisfaction by decreasing errors and making sure the customer receives the correct items in the correct quantities at the correct time, and with a correct invoice
- Facilitates the integration of transportation, delivery, geographical and service provider information into one schedule
- Connects disparate, mission critical applications including ERP and CRM in real-time resulting in the co-ordination of critical functions and activities.
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