Supply Chain Management Solutions for Consumer Products Companies

Whether you’re a fast moving consumer goods company, general merchandize, consumer electronics or perishable supplier, One Network provides a robust set of services for Consumer Products companies.

The industry is quickly transforming itself from a push environment where all goods are moved based on a statistical forecast and DRP approach to a demand driven approach where products are pulled based on actual consumption. The justification for this shift is simple: Huge results in service level improvements, inventory reductions, head count and capacity reductions, all driving significant revenue and margin improvements.

In order to facilitate this shift, a new demand driven sales and operations approach needs to be taken followed by a demand driven planning and execution process.

One Network provides the only proven system where an entire value chain can be planned collaboratively with all partners and execution can follow. We provide a repository and Demand Sensing service that connects to all your retail channels, computes unparalleled forecast accuracy and computes downstream order forecasts for both long term planning and short term execution. The solution computes all demand matches, all available supply, and computes all required production schedules, raw material and packaging requirements, transportation,  labor and capacity plans. Once planned, the systems start to execute those plans, working seamlessly with your ERP system. As execution challenges arise, unlike any other planning tools in the market today, One Network services will incrementally re-plan all issues and resolve them before they ever occur.

To facilitate these capabilities all the One Network Services support the same underlying concepts:

Many-to-Many, Multi-Party, Multi-Echelon Supply Network

Our competitors still call it a “supply chain”.  We only use the term as a basis to explain what it is that we do.  One Network is a community of companies that can seamlessly connect to one another to create a shared focus on satisfying customer demand at the lowest possible cost. Our technology is the only network service (SaaS) solution in existence that enables visibility and data flow across the multiple parties and echelons in your supply network… in real time.

The solution can embrace existing demand signal repositories where made available or can be deployed using its own data service. The solution produces a store-level, SKU level forecast, aggregates to channels and other roll ups, which in turn computes all deployment plans, consumes production plans, plans new raw material and packaging and creates all capacities, labor, logistics, etc. to get the supply to the source of demand. Since this service is a multi-party service, these plans can respond to orders from customers or through the use of our VMI service we can manage not only the retailer order but seamlessly optimize those orders and your supply operations concurrently.

What does this mean for you? Essentially, higher service levels, lower costs and greater profits for all parties in the network.

Continuous, Incremental Planning and Execution Across Your Value Network

Our many-to-many, multi-echelon network enables real-time sense-and-respond collaboration among all of your value chain participants.  So, whether you’re a CSR, Deployment Analyst, outsource manufacturer, logistics solutions provider, supplier or any other member of a supply network, One Network instantly updates you and your systems with demand or supply changes and instantly flows the new plans across your entire supply network.

Traditional planning tools only optimize their own operations and are limited to planning once a day, at best. For planning to be effective in a fast moving supply chain, it must move at the speed of the execution system, which moves continuously, not once a day. One Network is the only technology that plans continuously and incrementally to drive effective plans and adjusts them in near real time for maximum results.

Real-Time Sense and Respond

As a true multi-party, multi-echelon network, the solution offers unparalleled visibility for all participants based on their individual perspective. Not only do all participants in the value network (VMI analysts, suppliers, logistics or DC personnel, etc.) have real time visibility into the data needed to do their jobs, but they can also see the impact their decisions have on all organizations and value chain participants.

The demand/supply models are temporal and therefore can look to the future and sense problems before they occur. The issues can be seen through robust analytics and or alerts, can be based on any data in the system and can be triggered and made visible anywhere in the supply chain and to any participant.

Different from simple visibility tools this service responds and resolves issues automatically not only creating plans but actually performing the execution service necessary to resolve the problem. This provides for the worlds first and only multi-party, multi-echelon sense and respond service.

Scalable and Extensible with Accelerated Time to Value

Our cloud-based solution is scalable and extensible, so you can choose to embrace or replace your existing systems.  Our SaaS network service in the cloud immediately leverages all trading partners, significantly lowering implementation costs and sharing them across the network. So, implementation is quick and painless.  And, our secure cloud platform equals no expensive hardware to procure and maintain.

Another unique offering is that we can configure your solution any way you’d like:  With our industry-first Developer Network, you can extend the One Network suite of applications to include your own intellectual property or build a new solution from scratch. All solutions are built using this robust set of developer tools.

The One Network Solutions have proven themselves to drive best in class results that are game changing.

One Network Dry Grocery Customer Results:

• In-Store In-Stocks: 99.+% including promotions
• Retailer DC DOS: 3 to 6 Days (Down from 12 to 15 days)
• Chain-Wide Inventory, Shelf to Factory: 25 days (Down 50+%)
• Supplier DOS Reductions: 35 to 40%
• Significant TMS cost reductions for all parties
• Labor reductions

Demand Driven Supply Network Solutions for Consumer Products/CPG

• Intelligent Demand
• Intelligent Logistics
• Intelligent Supply
• Developer Network
• Intelligent VAN