Agile S&OP Collaboration
The ability of supply, production and operational planners to ensure that the right product arrives at the right place at the right time mandates access to timely, accurate data combined with effective cross-functional collaboration. This challenge is particularly hard when significant levels of production are outsourced.
To ensure supply can meet planned and unplanned demand, you need:
- Accurate and timely data in inventory balances, production status and other operational data across all external supply partners
- Accurate and timely data on demand forecasts from channel partners and affiliates
- Effective collaboration across internal functions (supply chain, manufacturing, sales, marketing, finance, etc.)
- Effective collaboration across external relationships (suppliers, CMO/CPOs, 3PLs, distributors, pharmacies/retail end points)
Solution Vision
The TraceLink Life Sciences Cloud creates a shared, collaborative view of supply levels, production status and distribution activities:
- Integrated access to accurate data across the production and distribution lifecycle from all supply network nodes
- Cross-functional collaboration in an integrated, shared workspace environment
- Ability to share notes, documents and other ad-hoc information on market insight, production states and S&OP analysis
TraceLink Technology
Ensure accurate, timely supply and demand information gets to the right decision-makers:
- InfoExchange: “Integrate-once, interoperate-with-everyone” system to system transaction and information mapping to all supply partners
- ProcessLink: User-managed, point-and-click team collaboration workspaces providing shared process visibility, notes and document information exchange and KPI dashboards
- Integrated Business Processes: Shared, cross-linked visibility across the production/delivery lifecycle (forecasting, planning, production, quality, distribution)
Business Impact
- Predictable on-time, in-full delivery to customers for planned global market opportunities
- Increased agility in the ability to supply unplanned global market opportunities
- Lean inventory management while maintaining demand fulfillment levels
- Improved confidence in the ability to profitably open new markets and execute channel strategies
