Product Update: Unlocking Efficiency and Collaboration: Experience the Latest SCA Planner with our trial program!

    The recent update from SCA PlannerTM represents a significant enhancement in process enablement, integrating a blend of capabilities and user-focused features. This update introduces the use of events to prompt users, persistent tracking of specific action areas like items or vendors, and guided navigation for seamless process completion. These innovations streamline processes while…

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A Customer Story: Improving value offerings at the store with continuous real-time planning

Effective program execution requires collaboration across different organizations – marketing, demand, supply chain, suppliers, logistics, procurement, and menu management. With real-time collaborative and decision support systems, managers can improve supply chain delivery, and lower costs and risks. Managers, aided by real-time tools, refine decisions as the program evolves. They can also build shared risk reward…

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Industry News: Are restaurant prices maxed out?

In the latest quarter, only restaurants offering value-priced menus have experienced positive growth in comparable sales. Net sales growth now requires strengthening the value proposition of their offerings. With challenges of rising labor and food costs, and uncertainties related to climate and market risks, the opportunity lies in enhancing agility, streamlining sourcing and supply processes,…

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Industry News

As our customers grapple with the fast changing market, we see some common themes. There is renewed interest in digital, this time around today’s needs – automation in procurement / supplier management processes and end-to-end supply visibility and planning. Managers want real digital in supply chains The need for automation in procurement and supplier management…

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SCA Planner updates

    This year has seen some significant new updates this year and several more are planned. Several of the updates including Tableau update, what-if scenarios using basis driven costing, configurable pricing have been rolled out or are being rolled out. For this issue, we will focus on the vendor-item feature as it enables e-registration…

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Customer Story

A customer whose planning process was failing due to data gathering decided to implement API integration. They learnt that API integration has more critical benefits beyond automation such as speed, holistic visibility and new critical insights. And implementing it is much easier and faster than they had assumed.

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New Real-Time Category Management adds speed, visibility

Supply chain events happen on their own schedule … not yours. That’s why we built Real-Time Category Management into the latest SCA Planner update. Real-Time Category Management gives your team the ability to monitor and respond to events as they occur … in real time. In addition, the system notifies the entire category team of updates…

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New CRM is fast, smart and flexible

Commodity Risk Management is a complex process made up of time-consuming steps that range from collaborating with trading partners to tracking execution. Our advanced new CRM capability draws on more than 20 years of SCA Technologies experience, industry best practices, and our own subject matter experts to streamline this process. In addition, SCA Planner CRM has the flexibility…

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Next-Generation Sourcing Now Part of SCA Planner

Next-gen Sourcing automates “the living daylights” out of the process SCA Planner has always set the bar high, especially in Sourcing. With new capabilities from the latest SCA Planner update, Sourcing now leverages Real-Time Category Management and other capabilities to deliver optimum forward-looking category insight and pre-analysis at the point in the process when it’s…

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