The power of collaboration in , including Del Monte’s use of One Network for demand sensing to streamline inventories and fill rates. [Supply Chain Management Review]

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Del Monte uses a combination of Oracle for front office reporting, i2 Technologies (now JDA) for demand planning, Vision Chain for downstream data harmonization and One Network for demand sensing to streamline inventories while improving fill rates. Mercedes-Benz used DELMIA from Dassault Systèmes to reduce the number of welding tools in its plants from 350 to 10. Asian Paints uses Infor’s Optiva application to streamline the transfer of chemical formulae for paints from 14 different development labs to an optimized balance across 29 global manufacturing sites.

The common thread among these examples is that IT, when deployed against the efficiency imperative constantly driving global supply chains to improve, delivers big results.

IT Opens Door to Collaboration Era