Even a must-have investment like Supply Chain Management can offer opportunities to mine for cost savings and added profits.

With solutions for supply chain optimization, TIE can help you simplify Supply Chain Management and lower your costs. We can also help you speed time to market and stretch the shelf life on products. In short, there are opportunities hidden in your supply chain, and TIE can help you convert them to advantages in todayís ultra-competitive markets.

• Collaborate more closely with your supply chain partners by sharing planning information and transaction data
• Leverage valuable supply-chain data more opportunistically, including forecast and production information, goods-in-transit stocks, and distribution data
• Implement ìsupplier portalsî for deeper integration and more defined processes to be shared with your key suppliers

TIE offers a solution for vendor-managed inventory designed to reflect the dynamics of your relationship with trading partners. From demand signals to automated replenishment triggers, TIE can help you determine what process needs to be applied, and then identify the intermediate steps necessary for a successful implementation.

TIE solutions support a wide range of detailed VMI processes, including:

• Forecast- and consumption-based stock replenishment
• Dynamic and safety stock replenishment algorithms
• Delivery slot, good in transit, and truck-load optimization
• Planning profiles supporting seasonal sales, product launches, etc.

With TIE solutions you can establish a single source of planning information that is always up to date. Dynamic planning views give you clear visibility into the status of your supply chain as well as changes in demand, and you can monitor it all against business rules that you define. Meanwhile, key performance indicators track the measurements you need to improve forecast accuracy, stock levels, and more.

TIE also supports sales and operation planning as a means to align business and production. By streamlining and controlling your processes, TIE can help you ensure that demand figures are always in line with your business targets. Reporting options alert you to discrepancies the moment they happen, and provide the necessary management information to correct your process.

TIE supplier portals enable you to provide enhanced support to the suppliers that are most critical to your supply chain. Supplier portals provide deeper integration and more defined processes along with extensive collaboration functionality that can be defined at the relationship level. It is a rapid, efficient means for achieving higher performance.