Our Supply Chain Management solution facilitates instantaneous collaboration with suppliers and customers, so you can proactively manage supply and demand. It helps world-class manufacturers synchronize manufacturing support to reduce inventory levels and lead times while improving on-time delivery. With improved visibility into the scope of the manufacturing operation, management can rely on better, more informed strategic production plans, vendor communication and sales forecasts. Our solution streamlines the supply chain by improving your forecasting and order promising process, and converting demand into optimized manufacturing and supplier plans. The purchasing report lists all new material requirements (purchase orders) for the current scheduled demand. Vendor lead times for each part are used to ensure material arrives on time, but not too early or late. Also, since the schedule is now more realistic, demands on the vendor are also reduced and delivery dates are met. The purchasing exceptions reportlists all material requirement changes (defer, cancel, expedite) based on decisions that were made to exploit/optimize the critical resources in the shop. And finally, a time buffer is put in place so material is scheduled to arrive a few days earlier, which protects against late shipments from unreliable vendors.