Collaborative Supply Planner

iCollaboration's Collaborative Supply Planner is a 100% Internet-based application that enables you to forge tight online relationships with suppliers to meet customer demand. Using just a Web browser, you can collaborate with suppliers on component and material forecasts to ensure they have adequate lead times to support production schedules. Collaborative Supply Planner gives your suppliers detailed, personalized views into component demand, based on end-item requirements exploded through the bill-of-materials.

Using Collaborative Supply Planner, you can monitor the critical component and material requirements for satisfying demand and servicing products already in the field. You can also track the performance of suppliers by comparing committed supplies against received supplies. As a result, Collaborative Supply Planner helps you establish win-win partnerships to meet demand quickly, accurately and cost efficiently.

Key Benefits

• Allows you to provide value-added services to your suppliers by offering visibility into component demand, thereby lowering their costs and giving them more lead time for orders
  
• Enables you to evaluate vendor performance by tracking how well they meet component forecasts
  
• Lowers procurement costs through bulk buying
  
• Allows you to view component demand on a company-wide basis – both new product demand as well as demand for service parts
  
• Reduces bottlenecks for scarce components by giving suppliers vision into future demand for end-items that rely on those components
  
• Allows you to share responsibility for accurate and timely fulfillment of component forecasts

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