We maximize Available to Promise & minimize OTIF penalties

By executing your customer service strategy with speed and intelligence

Strategy

Standardize decision criteria and align customer service strategy to front-line execution.

Speed

Streamline order processing and enhance exception handling to remove lags and decrease number of expedites.

Intelligence

Use consumption-based forecasting to sense consumer demand at a hyper local level.

Intelligent Order Promising

Improve ATP and Mitigate OTIF Penalties

  • Prioritize strategic accounts, giving them their fair share of inventory
  • Retain consumer loyalty and retail shelf space by improving distribution of constrained inventory
  • Anticipate and respond to market shifts, across all regions and channels with consumption-based sensing and forecasting
  • React to sudden supply surges or shortages, dynamically reallocating inventory according to business goals and rules
  • Enhance communication and relationships with retail partners with timely information on supply expectations
  • Improve team productivity, collaboration, and consistency through automation and goal alignment

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Exceeding ATP Goals & Mitigating OTIF Penalties

Steady supply and demand is part of a storied past. Recent events exposed underlying inventory, consumer, and market issues that production adjustments can’t erase. Those who anticipate market changes and intelligently manage surges and shortages will find success.

This video explains why.

Improve ATP through Accurate Forecasting

Many companies struggle to decipher explainable data within the noise of their historical data. Yet of those that do, many still fail to gain the full value from their demand predictions if they aren’t used throughout their processes.

In this short video presentation, Dr. Nicholas Wegman explains how to overcome these challenges.

Watch the 1-minute summary video.

“The Intelligent Order Promising (IOP) solution is able to catch some shortages even I would have missed”

- Outbound Planner, Multinational Consumer Products Company

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