www.i2.com www.manugistics.com www.capgemini.com compare their supply chain and give some advices to improve their supply chain.

Q1: Comparing supply chain of these three companies. For I2 ( www.i2.com ) As a leader in supply chain management, i2 enables organizations to focus on initiatives that will help gain and then maintain a competitive advantage. i2 offers workflows for major business process areas including: Master data management Supply & demand Order fulfillment Transportation and distribution Sourcing and procurement

For I2 ( www.i2.com )

As a leader in supply chain management, i2 enables organizations to focus on initiatives that will help gain and then maintain a competitive advantage.

i2 offers workflows for major business process areas including:

Master data management Supply & demand

Order fulfillment Transportation and distribution

Sourcing and procurement

I2 continue Master data management: designed to create a single enterprise thesaurus that can ensure data is consistently described, used, and stored within an organization Order fulfillment: can help an organization provide a single face to the customer as well as an optimum customer experience through proactive visibility, accurate real-time responses to requests, and improved delivery performance Sourcing and procurement: can enable sourcing decisions to reduce the cost of product variety, increase product success, and apply enterprise leverage to raise profitability and streamline operations

Master data management: designed to create a single enterprise thesaurus that can ensure data is consistently described, used, and stored within an organization

Order fulfillment: can help an organization provide a single face to the customer as well as an optimum customer experience through proactive visibility, accurate real-time responses to requests, and improved delivery performance

Sourcing and procurement: can enable sourcing decisions to reduce the cost of product variety, increase product success, and apply enterprise leverage to raise profitability and streamline operations

I2 continue Supply & demand: designed to take a closed-loop approach to supply chain management — helping to create and execute a plan, to monitor deviations from the plan, to determine action on those deviations, and most importantly, to make rapid, short-term course corrections to get back to the plan Transportation and distribution: can enable companies to procure, plan, execute, and monitor freight movements across multiple modes, borders, and enterprises

Supply & demand: designed to take a closed-loop approach to supply chain management — helping to create and execute a plan, to monitor deviations from the plan, to determine action on those deviations, and most importantly, to make rapid, short-term course corrections to get back to the plan

Transportation and distribution: can enable companies to procure, plan, execute, and monitor freight movements across multiple modes, borders, and enterprises

These workflows are supported by: Content and data service: is designed to leverage the latest emerging technologies and standards to improve a companies content and data quality Agile business platform: can provide a standards-based, open, and unified architecture to run collaboration and planning solutions across its supply chains I2 continue

These workflows are supported by:

Content and data service: is designed to leverage the latest emerging technologies and standards to improve a companies content and data quality

Agile business platform: can provide a standards-based, open, and unified architecture to run collaboration and planning solutions across its supply chains

For Manugistics ( www.manugistics.com ) Manugistics solutions are designed to address companies’ supply chain management processes — For more than two decades, Manugistics has worked with leading academics, optimization experts, and hundreds of clients in a variety of industries to continuously develop and fine tune planning, optimization, and execution solutions. As a result, these 'intelligent engines' deliver valuable benefits to companies in nearly every industry and every geography worldwide.

Manugistics solutions are designed to address companies’ supply chain management processes — For more than two decades, Manugistics has worked with leading academics, optimization experts, and hundreds of clients in a variety of industries to continuously develop and fine tune planning, optimization, and execution solutions. As a result, these 'intelligent engines' deliver valuable benefits to companies in nearly every industry and every geography worldwide.

Manugistics Continue Mangistics’ supply chain management solutions include: Supply management: helps manage and optimize the many areas of supply management — from strategic network design to operational planning to tactical event detection and resolution — all to help companies capture revenue at the lowest total cost. Demand management: Supports the creation of business strategies that help enable companies to reach the strategic and financial goals of their company through shaping of demand. These solutions provide integrated price optimization and demand management capabilities that enable you to use pricing and capacity levers to maximize companies’ revenues and profits.

Mangistics’ supply chain management solutions include:

Supply management:

helps manage and optimize the many areas of supply management — from strategic network design to operational planning to tactical event detection and resolution — all to help companies capture revenue at the lowest total cost.

Demand management:

Supports the creation of business strategies that help enable companies to reach the strategic and financial goals of their company through shaping of demand. These solutions provide integrated price optimization and demand management capabilities that enable you to use pricing and capacity levers to maximize companies’ revenues and profits.

Transportation & logistics: Helps shippers, carriers, and transportation service providers more effectively manage the complexities of a multi-modal logistics network. Capabilities cover the entire closed-loop transportation process — from strategic transportation sourcing, planning, and optimization; execution and shipment tracking; to payment and performance analysis. Contract MRP & MRO: designed to reduce overhead and enhance cash flow and productivity through advanced cost collection and earned value management processes. These solutions ensure ‘as-designed,’ ‘as-planned,’ and ‘as-built’ product configurations are developed, maintained, and managed through sophisticated configuration management. Manugistics Continue

Transportation & logistics:

Helps shippers, carriers, and transportation service providers more effectively manage the complexities of a multi-modal logistics network. Capabilities cover the entire closed-loop transportation process — from strategic transportation sourcing, planning, and optimization; execution and shipment tracking; to payment and performance analysis.

Contract MRP & MRO:

designed to reduce overhead and enhance cash flow and productivity through advanced cost collection and earned value management processes. These solutions ensure ‘as-designed,’ ‘as-planned,’ and ‘as-built’ product configurations are developed, maintained, and managed through sophisticated configuration management.

For Capgemini ( www.capgemini.com ) One of the key areas of focus for Capgemini has been helping clients build an adaptive supply chain – an operation that dynamically integrates demand and supply management, targets customers to boost revenue and helps to maximize profit and shareholder value. The adaptive supply chain itself is a dynamic organism, evolving over time to keep the enterprise profitable. Its key attributes are total visibility, seamless event management, and real-time collaboration. Capgemini offers a portfolio of collaborative offerings and solutions to help companies build adaptive supply chains.

One of the key areas of focus for Capgemini has been helping clients build an adaptive supply chain – an operation that dynamically integrates demand and supply management, targets customers to boost revenue and helps to maximize profit and shareholder value.

The adaptive supply chain itself is a dynamic organism, evolving over time to keep the enterprise profitable. Its key attributes are total visibility, seamless event management, and real-time collaboration. Capgemini offers a portfolio of collaborative offerings and solutions to help companies build adaptive supply chains.

Capgemini continue Supply Chain Transformation: Supply Chain Transformation incorporates Capgemini’s experience from our thousands of client engagements to help companies achieve these goals. Supply Chain Transformation eliminates much of the laborious data gathering that slows down many supply chain initiatives, and replaces it with an enhanced focus on decision making that directly impacts the business. At the same time, Supply Chain Transformation makes dramatic improvements to cycle-time, supply chain cost and service levels. Sourcing & eProcurement: Capgemini’s Sourcing & eProcurement services help unlock the value of the procurement process, generating extraordinary cost savings and improving the supply chain’s robustness.

Supply Chain Transformation: Supply Chain Transformation incorporates Capgemini’s experience from our thousands of client engagements to help companies achieve these goals. Supply Chain Transformation eliminates much of the laborious data gathering that slows down many supply chain initiatives, and replaces it with an enhanced focus on decision making that directly impacts the business. At the same time, Supply Chain Transformation makes dramatic improvements to cycle-time, supply chain cost and service levels.

Sourcing & eProcurement: Capgemini’s Sourcing & eProcurement services help unlock the value of the procurement process, generating extraordinary cost savings and improving the supply chain’s robustness.

Logistics & Fulfillment: Capgemini’s Logistics & Fulfillment services focus on transforming end-to-end fulfillment processes, allowing companies to meet the daily challenge of satisfying customers while maximizing profits and maintaining tight cost controls. Product Lifecycle Management: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is about bringing highly innovative products to market faster. At Capgemini, we collaborate with clients to let their innovation shine through. Capgemini’s PLM solutions are supported and strengthened by our collaboration with leading solution providers such as UGS , SAP , IBM (WebSphere Product Center), MatrixOne , PTC , Formation Systems , Microsoft , and HP . Capgemini continue

Logistics & Fulfillment: Capgemini’s Logistics & Fulfillment services focus on transforming end-to-end fulfillment processes, allowing companies to meet the daily challenge of satisfying customers while maximizing profits and maintaining tight cost controls.

Product Lifecycle Management: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is about bringing highly innovative products to market faster. At Capgemini, we collaborate with clients to let their innovation shine through. Capgemini’s PLM solutions are supported and strengthened by our collaboration with leading solution providers such as UGS , SAP , IBM (WebSphere Product Center), MatrixOne , PTC , Formation Systems , Microsoft , and HP .

Capgemini continue Price & Revenue Optimization: a powerful strategy for maximizing margin, increasing market share, and improving asset utilization while enhancing customer experience. RFID : Capgemini is working with Sun to provide collaborative RFID solutions. Sun and Capgemini are working together to help companies standardize their supply chain processes and lower overall costs. Linking RFID to Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM) systems enables sourcing or allocation decisions to be made in real time, so you can achieve flexible and responsive supply chain execution.

Price & Revenue Optimization: a powerful strategy for maximizing margin, increasing market share, and improving asset utilization while enhancing customer experience.

RFID : Capgemini is working with Sun to provide collaborative RFID solutions. Sun and Capgemini are working together to help companies standardize their supply chain processes and lower overall costs. Linking RFID to Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM) systems enables sourcing or allocation decisions to be made in real time, so you can achieve flexible and responsive supply chain execution.

Q2: what are the improvements that can be done? Improvements: They must be open standards for application solution providers to integrate with their solutions. This will enhance the solution to a customer-centric level. It will be wise to build a SCM software that is aligned with KM so to create a learning organisation. Some of these companies offer a limited range of SCM solutions. For example: Manugistics does not have Master Data Management or Order Fulfillment that are offered by i2.

Improvements:

They must be open standards for application solution providers to integrate with their solutions.

This will enhance the solution to a customer-centric level.

It will be wise to build a SCM software that is aligned with KM so to create a learning organisation.

Some of these companies offer a limited range of SCM solutions. For example: Manugistics does not have Master Data Management or Order Fulfillment that are offered by i2.