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Fast Track with Categoric |
Businesses should consider fast-tracking implementation of the Categoric's solutions for SCEM if the organization:
- is looking to enhance and maximize their supply and demand management – looking at “lean manufacturing” or other initiatives that require a fine balance between too much or not enough inventory.
- has lots of product launches or sales drives that mean rapid variations in demand - and subsequent supporting stocks that need to be moved or replenished quickly.
- regularly encounters exceptions as part of their day to day activities –for example, transport and logistics delays beyond their control.
- has disparate systems which do not currently interact
- needs to have a defined and flexible process that kicks in for exceptions regardless of the “shock” factor – for example, emergency services and for business continuity planning.
- has lots of different customers or suppliers or resellers or products and that generate “white noise” – the everyday data that is necessary to ongoing management but which threatens to overwhelm business operations with its sheer volume.
- wants to get a grip on exceptions by analyzing KPIs and out of range/tolerance performance.
Categoric's solutions can be deployed very quickly with minimal impact on the existing systems - removing implementation risk and allowing "business as usual" to continue.
Our case study on RHMF demonstrates this. Mark Lloyd, Financial Control Manager of Rank Hovis McDougal Foodservice (RHMFS) points out:
"Having invested in a number of different databases over the last few years, and making sure that staff were comfortable with using them, the last thing we wanted was massive upheaval. When we looked at Categoric’s technology we could see the incremental business benefits and ROI it would bring. It was also easy to integrate with our existing infrastructure.”
"We needed a system that could be used as a management tool by interrogating these databases at regular intervals. Xalerts notifies our financial, sales and supply chain control managers as soon as exceptions occur. This enables them to interact and take action to enhance the efficiency of their departments, based on the up-to-date information delivered directly to them by the technology.”
"The system was business critical in two weeks. We achieved ROI in around six months, including tangible and intangible. It's a vital business tool for RHMFS."
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