Adexa launches business performance applications
BUSINESS PLANNING VENDOR Adexa unveiled a new enterprise performance solution Tuesday designed to boost profitability though applications and processes that cross traditional department boundaries and manage the full lifecycle of decision-making. The Enterprise Global Planning System (eGPS) is a suite of 11 solutions including event management and analytics, sales and inventory planning, product lifecycle planning, and supply chain planning. “It offers an integration of strategic financial and supply chain planning merged with execution capabilities and measurement,” said Darryl Praill, Adexa senior vice president of marketing. “It will identify … where you are most weak against your competition and against best of class.” For example, the supply chain planning solution is designed to generate an enterprisewide supply chain model to synchronize supply with demand, optimizing the entire network by using forecasts and customer orders. In addition, the collaborative supply planning technology maintains an up-to-date, real-time view of constrained and unconstrained supply plans to produce aggregated plans across business units to negotiate better contracts and support across multiple vendors based on user-defined rules. The eGPS is designed to guide customers to their corporate destinations, just as a global positioning system guides drivers to their geographic destinations, said Cyrus Hadavi, president and CEO of Adexa. “Given the short product lifecycles … you cannot afford to carry so much inventory because very soon it will turn into obsolete and excess inventory,” Hadavi said. “[eGPS] helps us to understand the pain points [such as] where the wrong inventory is developing or where the order is that was supposed to go out but has not been delivered. We want to know by exception what the problems are.” Adexa’s eGPS architecture provides a business application framework that combines both planning and execution into a single Web-enabled environment. It features open integration with enterprise systems and transactional systems and support for connectivity with trading partners, including Web-based services and traditional EDI connectivity.
