BreconRidge slashes inventory conversion using response management tools
By Manufacturing Business Technology Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 6/27/2008 12:00:00 AM
Engineering and manufacturing services provider BreconRidge Corp. is using Kinaxis RapidResponse to improve data analysis, decision-making, and response times in managing customer demand.
Headquartered in Ottawa and with facilities located across the globe, BreconRidge collaborates on voice, video, and data applications with communications, industrial, and defense OEMs.
RapidResponse, integrated with BreconRidge’s SAP environment, facilitates effective impact analysis of supply, demand and product changes—ultimately driving rapid resolution to continually changing supply chain conditions.
With RapidResponse, users can access accurate and detailed manufacturing information in an easy-to-use spreadsheet interface embedded with ERP analytics and automatically populated with live data feeds from their SAP system. Supply chain participants across various functional groups can instantly model ERP data to simulate and share the impacts of countless "what-if?" scenarios. They then can rapidly score these scenario alternatives against set performance metrics to ensure that decisions are aligned with corporate goals.
These capabilities have been of specific benefit in the area of managing customer order promising; on-time-delivery (OTD); and engineering changes. Using RapidResponse, BreconRidge gives its customers more accurate original commit information through improved “capable to promise” analysis. And with actionable data easily on hand and readily accessible to everyone that needs it, response times to customers for change requests have shortened, as too with inventory conversion and lead times.
“Kinaxis’ depth of experience serving our dynamic industry was a compelling factor in pursuing this relationship, as we were confident in their understanding of the specific challenges of our competitive space,” concludes Glenda Paquin, VP of planning & supply management, BreconRidge.
