Business Processes

In today's business environment, competitive advantage calls for ever stronger integration of key business processes within the firm and across the network of companies that compose the supply chain. Integration and visibility to information, cross organizational KPIs, business events, product and material status all along the extended supply chain help quickly react to changing customer and supplier needs.

Many firms, however, struggle to achieve the necessary integration. Obtaining such a degree of process flexibility requires defining the linkages necessary to integrate those processes, adopt new methods, strategies and tools.

TXTPERFORM2008 provides the framework through which establish effective planning, communication, decision making and performance management across the company and the extended Supply Chain. The solution supports end-to-end management of cross-functional and organizational processes such as:

• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
• Merchandise & Assortment Planning
• Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
• Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)

Optimizing the entire process will yield even better results than optimizing parts of the process. The new level of integration allows for coordinated planning, better flexibility in unexpected situations, more effective execution and visibility which directly translate into customer value.