Inventory Policies
Supports Supply Chain Policies, including
lead-times, future-time-windows, alert notification
time-fences, min/max target inventory (safety stock)
levels (or rules), EOQ, and supply sourcing rules.

Inventory Visibility
Captures current on-hand and remote inventory
levels within the Supply Chain. Consolidates inform
ation from the disparate trading partner systems
such as master data, BOMs, warehouse inventories,
Advanced Shipment Notifications (ASN) and
Good-Receipt-Notifications (GRN). Present
aggregations and derivations of the inventory
information by location.

Inventory Plans
Consumption plans (forecasts) from manufacturing
plants as well as the planned factory outputs plans
from suppliers. Aggregates and presents a forecast
of the projected inventory levels at each location by
time-window-bucket

Inventory Analysis
Inventory policies are applied to projected inventory levels to define optimal target inventories.
Analyzes bucketed inventory projections according to
target inventory and alerts of imminent stock-outs, shortages, and overages.
Provides recommended replenishments to alleviate the alert situation.
Inventory Auto-Replenishment
Replenishment recommendations in conjunction with the sourcing, split, and EOQ rules to define the site-specific replenishments.
Inventory Analysis is re-performed to evaluate alert conditions and recommend alternative sources.
Inventory Negotiation
Buyers and Suppliers work together in a collaborative environment to alleviate the inventory alert situations by adjusting consumption plans, replenishments, and inventory targets.
Inventory Analysis is re-performed against the simulations to re-assess the alert situation.
Simulated “what if” scenario planning can be converted into a firm plan

Inventory Replenishments
Committed replenishments are sourced, aggregated, and split according to the Supply Policies, and communicated to the Buyer’s ERP.
Inventory Orders
Replenishments are communicated directly to Suppliers after applying similar rules.