What-If

Total Cost Optimizer enables your to develop a supply chain strategy that can incorporate the true costs and its underlying cost drivers and optimize the costs for breakthrough cost performance.

The Business Process

Predictive Cost Modeling and Cost Optimization serve as the underpinning of SCA's solutions. Predictive Modeling and Optimization of Costs is a methodology that uniquely unites Operations and Cost in one powerful modeling framework that enables Enterprises to view their business in yet-to-be scenarios. The resulting scenarios can be viewed in terms of Operational metrics and Financial Statements that are consistent with what the different functions within the company would need to make decisions and successfully execute the chosen scenario.

Operations modeling has the flexibility to account for the various aspects of the enterprise supply chain operations, i.e. source-manufacture-transport at any desired level of granularity (i.e. SKU or product family; machine or work center, etc.). Cost modeling is based on Activity Cost Drivers and connects directly with the Operational model to generate reliable cost driver driven financials for any new scenario being projected.

• Strategic supply chain planning and management processes
• Strategic and dynamic sourcing simulation and optimization
• Strategic and dynamic manufacturing simulation and optimization
• Integrated Supply Chain simulation and optimization
• Scenario based what-if and optimization
• New initiatives Assesment and their propogated business impact
• Sales and operations planning

Feature Highlights

• Team process and colloboration to develop business plan solutions
• Multi-period time phased optimal solution generation
• Real world constraints in proposed optimization
• Process based scenario development
• Integration with plan/forecast process