Attunity InFocus provides a uniquely flexible and effective solution for supply chain event management (SCEM), helping firms towards their goals around supply chain excellence. Pro-actively detecting critical business events, and integrating with existing applications and information sources, Attunity InFocus helps companies evaluate and respond to the events inherent in modern complex supply chains.
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The need for Supply Chain Event Management
With the modern economy presenting drivers such as globalization, outsourcing, and ever-changing consumer demand, supply chains are becoming more complex to manage. At the same time, remaining competitive requires unprecedented speed and precision, whether it is responding to new opportunities or dealing with exceptions.
To achieve this, supply chain managers need to pro-actively monitor, control, and coordinate a complicated range of activities within their business environment. They have to sift through information, often from many different sources, coordinate resources internally and with partners, and act quickly to fix bottlenecks or leverage opportunities.
Staying on top of it all is a daunting challenge and a critical one in a world where the only constant thing is change. Effective supply chain event management provides early warning to pending problems, and the tools necessary to quickly and accurately resolve them.
Attunity InFocus for Supply Chain Event Management
Attunity InFocus allows managers to pro-actively detect, evaluate, and respond to critical business events in their supply chain, related to inventories, quality, delivery, processes, etc.
With InFocus, users leverage high-impact applications that provide seamless access to information from heterogeneous systems, “in-context” collaboration, and end-to-end activity management, to shorten and improve the response to variability, exceptions, and opportunities in their business environment.
The following diagram depicts the main components of the InFocus solution:
- Information Integration
Having developed leading information integration software for more than 10 years, Attunity rapidly brings together information from heterogeneous systems in real-time, including legacy systems, databases and data warehouses, web sources, and unstructured data (e.g. email).
- Event Detection
Attunity InFocus allows the definition of robust and powerful rules that can identify events based on information from various heterogeneous systems, and in real-time.
- Alert Notifications
Attunity InFocus provides flexible alerting where events notifications can be sent via Email, SMS, or pop-up screens. Furthermore, users can click an alert notification to immediately start managing a response.
- Automated Activities
Once events are detected, Attunity InFocus allows the configuration of automated activities that will take place to immediately drive action. For example: send an email to a partner, update a database, or initiate a workflow.
- Response Management
Closing the loop for event capture, response management provides an end-to-end environment where managers can access relevant information, collaborate with others, and coordinate activities to ensure timely and effective resolution.
- Tracking and Audit
Attunity InFocus provides automated tracking of all the activities that take place in the system, providing information that can be used as reference, for audit, and for learning purposes.
Innovative Technology leveraging Composite Workplace Applications
Leveraging service-oriented technology, pre-built building blocks, and rapid configuration tools, Attunity InFocus enables the prototyping of supply chain event management applications in a matter of days and the roll out of complete solutions within weeks.
Customer Examples
Production Events
“We knew we had opportunities for continuous improvement in casting. With InFocus, we identified the root causes, enabling us to focus on the specific alloys and equipment combinations that were adversely affecting our casting production. We were able to take action and make adjustments in a much more timely matter.”
David Way
Process & Reliability Manager
Norandal USA Inc.
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Delivery Events
A leading manufacturer in the US improves management of back-orders by simplifying the identification of events impacting delivery to optimize the prioritization and expediting of back-orders by their commercial value.
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