Overview:

The retail supply chain presents many challenges like linking the consumer in the supply chain planning process, managing product life cycles, promotional planning, planning for seasonal products, determining cost-effective supply channels and forecasting.

Our supply chain specialists leverage IT to create an adaptive supply network which seamlessly connects supply, planning, manufacturing, and distribution operations to critical enterprise applications. It aids in providing real-time visibility across the supply network, thereby enabling rapid decision-making and optimal execution.

Supply-Chain Solutions:

Eminence supply chain solutions enable companies to collaborate with their suppliers and customers, gain visibility into the entire supply chain, and achieve the highest levels of forecast accuracy while optimizing inventory positions. Eminence solutions help you make the most of your supply chain, leverage value from innovation and turn potential into profits.

Supply-Chain Visibility:

Key to businesses today is managing operations by balanced performance measures to ensure that each functional area works together to achieve corporate goals. Eminence Performance Management solutions enable the definition and monitoring of Key Performance Indicators (KPI's), such as forecast accuracy, customer service levels and production plan compliance. These metrics are coupled to our rich supply chain and demand chain solutions. Users can leverage our scorecards and dashboards to assess the health and performance of their operations today and predict the performance of their operation in the future. In addition, our performance management solutions are designed to be the entry point that planners use each day as a starting point for their work.

Eminence provides a web-based view of your supply chain information - including host or legacy systems, ERP, WMS, and A/P or A/R applications. The view is configurable for various levels of security and access based on user, role, or enterprise, and is accessible via web-enabled tools such as cellular phones and PDA devices.

Highlights:

• Create key measurements across each functional supply chain category to measure operational objectives against actual performance.
• Monitor the real-time operational performance of supply chain operations, immediately identifying issues as they occur.
• Highlight instances where performance is out of the acceptable criteria range, providing focus on areas with highest priority for future adjustments and tuning.
• Provide tailored scorecards for upper level managers so that they have visibility into all elements of the supply chain including suppliers, customers, internal operations, and carriers.
• Anticipate problems before they happen using predictive analytics capabilities.

Supply-Push Management:

Eminence Supply-Push Management solutions provide integrated price optimization and demand management capabilities. Eminence Forecasting's flexible web-based framework provides you with the ability to collaborate with one or more of your trading partners to develop a true consensus demand plan. This includes support for initiatives such as Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) and RosettaNet. By helping to ensure that all trading partners are planning according to the same forecast, Demand Management smoothes demand variation across the trading network to facilitate more effective collaboration.

Key Benefits:

• Proven forecast accuracy
• Scalability
• Deep domain knowledge
• Reduce inventory costs
• Improve customer service
• Increase revenue.

Supply-Pull Management:

Eminence solutions are designed to address your supply management processes - no matter how simple or complex your business, no matter how limited or far-reaching your trading network. Eminence has worked with leading academics, optimization experts, and various clients in a variety of industries to continuously develop and fine tune our planning, optimization, and execution solutions. As a result, we are able to deliver valuable benefits to companies in nearly every industry and every geography worldwide.

Eminence supply-pull solutions help manage and optimize the many facets of supply management - from strategic network design to operational planning to tactical event detection and resolution.

Key Benefits:

• Improved inventory turns
• Improved margins and return on invested capital
• Increased responsiveness to customer demands
• Reduced obsolete inventory
• Increased asset utilization

Supply-Logistics:

Eminence delivers specialized and innovative solutions that move goods rapidly and efficiently, outperform competitors, and exceed customers' expectations. Our transportation solutions are geared toward helping our clients extend business relationships, share information, integrate technology, and collaborate more effectively.

Logistic-solutions:

Eminence facilitates communication with vendors, carriers, customs agents, and other trading partners through EDI, XML, and web-based methods. The solution supports multi-modal capabilities. Eminence provides a web-based view of your supply chain information - including host or legacy systems, ERP, WMS, and A/P or A/R applications. The view is configurable for various levels of security and access based on user, role, or enterprise, and is accessible via web-enabled tools such as cellular phones and PDA devices.

• End-to-end logistics management; network design, capacity planning, logistics procurement, inbound order collaboration, planning, execution, event management, payment and reporting and analysis.
• Collaboration and execution with carrier and supplier partners with portals.
• Tightly integrated capacity forecasting, procurement, total landed cost, freight payment, and carrier execution capabilities with leading Algorithms.
• Tested solutions, rapid results, and long-term support.