Successful Market & Customer Supply

Successful Supply Chain Management (SCM) implies an integrated supply chain approach, which also includes distributors and customers in its planning next to internal production processes. ORion-PI^® offers diverse web applications to optimize these supply relations. At its core there are the following processes:

• Demand Planning and Forecasting
• Available-to-Promise (ATP)
• Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)

Demand Planning and Forecasting
The forecasting tool ORion-PI^® Network Forecasting helps you to identify trends and market developments in advance. It consolidates historical data and information on trends and seasonal distinctions from different sources, combines and evaluates them. Based on common statistical approaches it then determines several planning versions from which the best variant for each target objective is ascertained.

Available-to-Promise (ATP) with Batch Specifications
You want your services to stand out from your competitors? ORion-PI^® Available-to-Promise facilitates the interaction of all involved in the delivery process – from retail to logistics providers, from manufacturers to suppliers.

Focus of the solution lies on the quick and easy retrieval of availabilities and delivery dates, together with the involved processing of orders. To generate realistic plans ATP with ORion-PI^® always is based on exact information about future stocks and capacities. At all times, calculations are made in consideration of all relevant constraints and restrictions.

Moreover, Axxom’s optimal Batch ATP builds on the traditional ATP advantages of delivery reliability and customer response time by taking ATP to the batch level. Intelligent algorithms take customer-specific batch requirements into account and dynamically assign inventories to inquiries, providing the flexibility for an optimal match with every ATP inquiry, maximizing profit and market coverage.

Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)
The close cooperation of customers and suppliers has become a decisive factor for the competitiveness of a company. Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), the management of inventories and replenishment, here plays a major part. ORion-PI^® assures that inventory and replenishment are balanced at any time – while keeping costs at the lowest.