Reduce your costs and increase sales by forecasting more accurately and optimising your supply chain.

Organisations running legacy demand forecasting and supply chain solutions are wasting money and jeopardising customer satisfaction. Older systems typically do not offer automated support for shipping documentation, multi-channel fulfilment, integration between voice/sorting systems/RFID and more.

Implementing a newer, off-the-shelf system can: Cut costs involved in supply chain management Cut costs involved in maintaining or extending current custom demand forecasting/supply chain systems Offer a full range of functionality, based on current and emerging industry needs Give you competitive advantage Dataweave can help people to streamline their supply chain. Key challenges include: Forecast accuracy Balancing supply and demand Collaboration with suppliers and freight forwarders Inventory optimisation Managing short life-cycle stock / seasonal stock Managing stock in line with promotions

           
Many companies have manual processes for forecasting and are reliant on Microsoft Excel. However, spreadsheets can get very large and unwieldy and can even run out of rows and columns. They can be error-prone often relying on inaccurate baseline data. Often there are multiple inconsistent versions of the same spreadsheet making them unreliable.

In contrast an enterprise forecasting and planning solution will:

• Remove manual intervention from the source data, improving data accuracy, accountability and reducing cost
• Result in better decision making through structured processes
• Forecast accuracy based on proven algorithms

Business benefits include:

Reduce Costs Reduce working capital tied up in excess inventory Reduce wastage with short shelf life / lifecycle products Reduce freight  costs Reduce distribution costs Improve Customer Service Delivery In Full On Time Stock available to promise Product always in stock Increase Revenue Limit missed sales opportunities Model product launch costs and logistics Maximise return on promoted items Optimise product mix

Oracle Forecasting and Supply Chain Planning Solutions

Dataweave can help you implement Oracle's leading solution for demand forecasting, Demantra. Dataweave can deploy Demantra stand-alone or leverage out-of-the-box integration with Oracle E-Business Suite using the Oracle Demantra Business Accelerator for faster return on investment . Pre-built integration to Oracle JD Edwards is also available. Key features of Demantra are

• Multi-dimensional data modeling with flexible data hierarchies for up-to-date demand visibility and one-number planning
• Ability to plan for Configure to Order (CTO) products with multiple optional or mandatory sub-components, tracking interaction between items and components
• Flexible time buckets, units, and currencies to address operational and financial planning needs
• Web-based, real-time internal and external collaboration with role-based security
• Dashboards, automated exception management, and workflow to quickly respond to changing market conditions
• Hybrid OLAP data architecture and distributed processing to manage massive volumes of data
• Proprietary Bayesian forecasting to handle multiple, simultaneous causal factors
• Easy-to-use and highly configurable

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Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning is another key component of Dataweave's Value Chain Planning solution for supply and distribution planning. Features of ASCP include:

• Unconstrained, constrained, and optimized plans
• Date effective sourcing rules, bills of distribution, and transfer rules
• Hub-and-spoke planning
• Centralized and decentralized planning
• Simultaneous material and capacity planning
• Product family and item level planning

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