Supply Chain

Advanced Demand Planning
Demand Scheduling
Procurement Analysis
Partner Collaboration & Relationship Management
Supplier Performance Analysis
Supplier Sustainability Analysis
Inventory & Warehouse Management
Distribution & Logistics Analysis
Distribution Network Optimization
Order Fulfillment Analysis
Return Process Analysis

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Intelligent Supply Chains

Faster response to market conditions throughout the entire value chain—from planning and procurement of raw materials through production and customer delivery—are moving manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to seek increasingly agile, information-driven, “demand pull” supply chain processes. More companies every day turn to QlikView to provide the platform for quick and lasting transformation to a new, leading-edge, business agility.

Partner and Supplier Collaboration
By simplifying integration and analysis of data from internal and external databases, QlikView enables companies to collaborate closer and share information with their sales partners and suppliers. Decision makers are empowered with near real-time visibility into demand planning and execution. Benefits begin with more accurate forecasting of demand volume and procurement of raw materials dynamically aligned with sales forecasts and product inventory—in sales channels, at customer sites (spare parts inventory), in warehouses, and in transit. Selected information sharing can be easily extended to contract manufacturers and third-party logistics companies as well.

End-to-End Business Agility
Intelligent demand/supply analytics using QlikView provides an end-to-end agility that enables all stakeholders to respond quickly to shifts in market demand and opportunities to exploit trends. QlikView’s more flexible in-memory analysis also improves the capabilities of manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to optimize inventory levels, manage product flow, and track supplier performance. Companies substantially increase their advantages to cost-effectively deliver more marketable products and value-added services when customer demands are highest. Fast time to value can be measured in being first to market with “customer-driven” products and value adds, improved brand differentiation, and stronger collaborative relationships with channel partners.

Working with the Same Information
Disconnects among separate data-driven processes across a supply chain impair business agility and increase operational costs. QlikView’s flexible data-sharing architecture, which optimizes data as it is loaded from disparate sourcing databases, quickly exposes redundancies and errors for easy remediation. Using QlikView, everyone works with the same information across supply chain processes and dependent business functions. This, in turn, helps to eliminate confusion in item management—improving inventory levels, replenishment execution, response to demand changes, and operational costs.

Learn how retailer Optimera, in an on-demand video, uses QlikView to optimize inventory levels, saving more than 12 million SEK (2 million USD) here.

Read how the UK’s National Health Service realized a savings of more than £33 million (66 million USD) from procurement spending analysis with QlikView here.