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APS: Is It As Good As It Sounds? - John Bermudez
Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) has been the hottest segment of the enterprise applications market for the last two years, with a 70% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). Fueling this growth, manufacturers faced with the challenges of simultaneously reducing costs and improving customer service have been early adopters of APS as part of their supply chain management strategies. Early results are spectacular as APS technology takes on previously unsolvable planning problems. While many more manufacturers are interested in APS, the too-good-to-be-true claims and high product costs have caused most companies to proceed cautiously. In this Report, AMR reviews the scope of current APS solutions and provides findings from an in-depth look at existing implementations in a variety of industries
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Introduction to APS - John Bermudez
In this report AMR will examine Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) systems, perhaps the hottest segment of the industrial software market. We do not believe that these systems are just another example of a "technology in search of a problem." Instead, they are a superb example of innovative software developers using advanced technologies to respond to the requirements of a new business paradigm. In order to compete effectively in today's global markets, manufacturers have adopted new business practices such as just-in-time (JIT), flow manufacturing, mass customization, and integrated supply chain management. These techniques have exposed the deficiencies of older planning and scheduling tools and created a rapidly growing market for more sophisticated and responsive planning and decision support systems. Given the increasing complexity of manufacturing supply chains and the benefits experienced by early APS users, we expect this market to expand dramatically over the next several years.
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AMR Research Report on Supply Chain Management - Larry Lapide - Janet Suleski
Supply Chain Planning Optimization: Just the Facts by Larry Lapide
While optimization methods have been around since post World War II, until recently there has only been a marginal interest in applying these concepts to supply chain planning. But one questions whether all buyers understand how to apply these solutions and what they are getting for their money. Is optimization worth the cost? Does it really work? This month's Frontline addresses these questions by focusing on supply chain optimization technology from leading APS providers.
Perspectives on Optimization by Janet Suleski
There are a number of communities intimately involved in the creation and execution of supply chain optimization technology. Each community, however, has different ideas about what it means to optimize a supply chain, what the best methods are, how clean the data needs to be, and even how comprehensive the targeted supply chain should be. For this month's Insider, AMR surveyed representatives from the academic, manufacturing, consulting, and software vendor fields to get their opinions on what supply chain optimization really means.
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