SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Kinaxis RapidResponse Review

About RapidResponse

RapidResponse is supply chain management software that enables enterprises to attain a cloud-based control tower solution that integrates key functional processes such sales and operations planning (S&OP), demand planning, supply and capacity planning, supplier collaboration, and many other connected areas. With the ability to replace multiple legacy demand and supply planning systems and the typical myriad of accompanying spreadsheets, a control solution using RapidResponse enables a company to leverage a single product to operate in an orchestrated fashion, driving optimal performance.

With a central system for multi-tier/multi-enterprise visibility, analysis, and collaboration, companies are able to compress the time to identify plan deviations, and more importantly, dramatically collapse the time to make profitable course corrections.

About the Company

Kinaxis was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario.

RapidResponse Key Features

• Determines achievable delivery dates that satisfy customers while still supporting the company’s business objectives by collaborating with the supply chain and instantly modeling, sharing and comparing projected results of various action alternatives
• Ensures inventory analysis is a continuous, value-driven activity leveraged in a variety of ways across multiple business processes
• Model multiple product launch scenarios and apply appropriate risk mitigation strategies, and links project plan milestones to supply chain
• Provides project management teams with resources to manage expectations and keep projects on track despite ever-changing demand and supply variables
• Links costing information to “what-if” scenario analysis capabilities. and allow managers to immediately calculate the financial impact of demand and supply plan variances and use profitability considerations as a factor in the options for course correction