Enhancements to Its Extended ERP Suite
The above moves came immediately after the latest version of the company's extended-ERP suite, which was announced in May. The culmination of two years of development effort and customer input, glovia.com 7 represents a substantial increase in Glovia's ability to support the business needs of manufacturers with global operations and complex business structures. The vendor claims its new solution will enable companies to improve their supply chain performance by centralizing demand and supply management while decentralizing production optimization. glovia.com 7 also includes a powerful collaboration and integration platform, more than 60 enhancements to its core ERP functionality and integrates several existing web-based applications.
Possibly the most notable new functionality is the one that aims at improving the performance of complex supply chains containing multiple products, production facilities and business entities that span multiple countries or regions. The solution aggregates enterprise-wide demand and intelligently allocates it to production facilities based on strategic business goals, such as cost reduction or customer service, while allowing for the local optimization of production. To that end, glovia.com enhanced SCM capabilities include new solutions for demand, supply and order fulfillment management.
Glovia's new demand management solution should enable manufacturers to create a comprehensive, enterprise-wide view of total demand by aggregating forecast and customer order data from sales, marketing, channels and customers. It supposedly provides demand planners with views of total item demand and demand allocation, the ability to make forecast adjustments, and drill down to detailed information. With Glovia's new demand management solution, manufacturers should be able to increase the accuracy and reliability of their demand forecasts, improve on-time delivery performance, decrease excess inventory levels and stock outs, reduce costs, and minimize the disruption demand changes have on their operations. Designed specifically for companies with multiple product lines and multiple production facilities, Glovia's demand management solution also incorporates real-time capable-to-promise (CTP) functionality, allowing manufacturers to accurately commit to customer orders and forecasts.
Glovia's supply management solution places global demand in the correct local production facility based on available capacity and inventory levels, while simultaneously considering factors like cost or customer delivery date. The solution enables production planners to optimize their distributed operations to meet demand and allows them to review and adjust how the allocation of orders to production facilities. The new supply management solution aims at providing manufacturers with the flexibility they need to meet changing customer demand while minimizing the impact these changes have on the plant floor.
glovia.com also includes functionality for managing the entire order fulfillment business process, enabling manufacturers to synchronize orders with planned production. Using a memory-resident, constraint-based optimization engine, Glovia's solution determines the best possible supply scenario for given demand. The planning engine takes into account global resources and commitments, including capacity, inventory, orders, critical resources as well as cross-plant and plant-to-customer lead times. The order fulfillment solution includes real-time available-to-promise (ATP) functionality as well as sophisticated business rules that allow manufacturers to instantly offer alternative configurations and substitutions to meet customer delivery dates.
glovia.com 7 also provides manufacturers with a collaborative business integration platform to support their mission-critical operations. As already mentioned, the new platform is built using Fujitsu's collaborative business integration solution, Interstage. The solution includes inbound and outbound XML transaction sets, XML data synchronization capabilities, and functionality for trading partner management, workflow and transaction automation. It also supports the latest technology standards, including J2EE, SOAP, UDDI, ebXML and CORBA as well as industry standards such as RosettaNet.
Possibly the most notable new functionality is the one that aims at improving the performance of complex supply chains containing multiple products, production facilities and business entities that span multiple countries or regions. The solution aggregates enterprise-wide demand and intelligently allocates it to production facilities based on strategic business goals, such as cost reduction or customer service, while allowing for the local optimization of production. To that end, glovia.com enhanced SCM capabilities include new solutions for demand, supply and order fulfillment management.
Glovia's new demand management solution should enable manufacturers to create a comprehensive, enterprise-wide view of total demand by aggregating forecast and customer order data from sales, marketing, channels and customers. It supposedly provides demand planners with views of total item demand and demand allocation, the ability to make forecast adjustments, and drill down to detailed information. With Glovia's new demand management solution, manufacturers should be able to increase the accuracy and reliability of their demand forecasts, improve on-time delivery performance, decrease excess inventory levels and stock outs, reduce costs, and minimize the disruption demand changes have on their operations. Designed specifically for companies with multiple product lines and multiple production facilities, Glovia's demand management solution also incorporates real-time capable-to-promise (CTP) functionality, allowing manufacturers to accurately commit to customer orders and forecasts.
Glovia's supply management solution places global demand in the correct local production facility based on available capacity and inventory levels, while simultaneously considering factors like cost or customer delivery date. The solution enables production planners to optimize their distributed operations to meet demand and allows them to review and adjust how the allocation of orders to production facilities. The new supply management solution aims at providing manufacturers with the flexibility they need to meet changing customer demand while minimizing the impact these changes have on the plant floor.
glovia.com also includes functionality for managing the entire order fulfillment business process, enabling manufacturers to synchronize orders with planned production. Using a memory-resident, constraint-based optimization engine, Glovia's solution determines the best possible supply scenario for given demand. The planning engine takes into account global resources and commitments, including capacity, inventory, orders, critical resources as well as cross-plant and plant-to-customer lead times. The order fulfillment solution includes real-time available-to-promise (ATP) functionality as well as sophisticated business rules that allow manufacturers to instantly offer alternative configurations and substitutions to meet customer delivery dates.
glovia.com 7 also provides manufacturers with a collaborative business integration platform to support their mission-critical operations. As already mentioned, the new platform is built using Fujitsu's collaborative business integration solution, Interstage. The solution includes inbound and outbound XML transaction sets, XML data synchronization capabilities, and functionality for trading partner management, workflow and transaction automation. It also supports the latest technology standards, including J2EE, SOAP, UDDI, ebXML and CORBA as well as industry standards such as RosettaNet.
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