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Axway digital supply chain solutions in action
Manufacturing
Reduce safety stock levels by improving supplier integration
Challenges
• Free up capital locked into high safety stocks
• Report on predictable lead-time deviations
• Track lost orders
• Meet modern B2B processing and operational requirements
• Provide end-to-end visibility and analytics on EDI message flow
• Measure supplier performance against SLAs
Solution: Axway Analytics + B2Bi
• Permanently monitors the supply chain to align with stock management plans
• Anticipates risks of not meeting commitments
• Detects very early on any lost, rejected or blocked transactions
• Reduces the costs of problem investigation and resolution
• Allows visibility into suppliers as well as internal service levels
• Efficiently preempts problems and responds to supply chain disruptions
Outcome
• Inventory savings of up to 20% of value
• Increased forecast accuracy of 25%
• Consistent 98% SLA satisfaction levels
• Decreased inventory on stock from just over 10 days to fewer than seven days
Who wants what: manufacturing
VP Supply Chain wants to:
• Reduce the levels of safety stocks
• Monitor supplier SLAs
• Shorten unexpected lead-time deviations
and delivery incidents due to lost orders and
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