The Right Solution to Optimize Your Global Distribution Environment

Most ERP vendors - SAP, Oracle, J.D. Edwards, Peoplesoft - were developed to manage manufacturing resources across diverse, large organizations. Resource management and optimization from raw materials and finished goods inventory to human and financial resources were the basis of these solutions.

With all their power, ERP solutions lacked the ability to optimize inventory across the supply chain. This led to the creation of point solutions from SCM vendors such as i2 and Manugistics. They formed alliances claiming to integrate resource planning with resource optimization.

Yet, most combined ERP and SCM solutions still don’t address the basic problem of execution.

The activities required to execute and optimize the allocation of resources across the global supply chain aren’t intuitively and proactively managed within most ERP/SCM software solutions. That's where, as a solution, 3rdwave's strength is.

Companies that focus on distribution require solutions that are fundamentally different from manufacturers. A manufacturers’ core business is to produce “stuff” through the most effective use of their resources. Distribution organizations’ core business is to move “stuff” through the pipeline to satisfy customer requirements. Manufacturers tend to focus more inwardly on production; distributors focus on their external environment.

3rdwave Solutions are streamlined, intuitive, fully-integrated and cost- and time-effective to implement and support.