SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN AND OPTIMISATION
Optiant is a pioneer in the emerging market of supply chain design and optimisation. Optiant's flagship software solution, the PowerChainŽ suite, enables global organisations to design and configure optimal supply chains, solving real-world problems today. PowerChain determines cost-effective inventory placements and integrates supply chain strategy into sourcing and distribution processes for quantifiable results in less than ninety days. Optiant solutions enable global organisations to design and configure optimal supply chains by calculating the financial impact of each element of the supply chain structure. Cross-departmental teams simulate what-if scenarios to design the best possible supply chain and execute rapid, data-driven decisions, driving out millions of dollars of associated costs.
Core Business
Optiant's software helps manufacturers intelligently design and configure supply chains to meet critical business goals:
Increase profit margins
Strengthen customer service levels
Speed the time to market
Improve efficiency and lower total supply chain costs
The novel approaches in Optiant's products provide the industry's first - and only - end-to-end view of all of the key considerations and variables in this extremely complex business process.
Market Urgency
Economic and competitive pressures are accelerating, forcing manufacturers to create new ways of controlling and condensing every step required to introduce products, from design through distribution.
Companies that master strategic and tactical supply chain planning will dominate their markets. The urgency is particularly critical in businesses with complex supply chains, short product lifecycles and high inventory obsolescence costs.
Supply Chain Design as the Critical Link
Supply chain design becomes the critical link because 80 percent of the supply chain's costs are locked in when these strategic and tactical decisions are made. This new holistic approach significantly increases the financial benefits that manufacturers derive from execution systems already in place, including millions of dollars in savings for existing and new supply chains.
The critical supply chain decisions that Optiant addresses occur frequently, especially for companies with hundreds of products, supply and demand uncertainty and a need for market agility. Optiant applies new intelligence to these decisions - replacing inadequate 'rules of thumb' with strategic visibility across the extended supply chain, real-time "what-if" scenario analysis and fast optimization capabilities.
Product Roadmap
Optiant's PowerChainŽ suite is an integrated platform designed to address the most strategic questions manufacturers face:
The core software originated at MIT and The Sloan School of Management; it has been tested and deployed by leading Fortune 500 manufacturing partners for more than five years, improving profit margins by millions of dollars.
Optimization and Modeling Technology
The powerful optimization methods leverage proprietary, patent-pending technology to simultaneously identify, evaluate and compare the most critical manufacturing and production options, and quickly recommend the optimal solution.
The open architecture is highly scalable, and supports and enhances all leading supply chain execution solutions, including SAP, i2 and Manugistics.
Its intuitive graphical interface is designed to let supply chain decision-makers quickly and easily map and evaluate the impact of alternatives across the entire supply chain.
Founding
Optiant was founded in 2000 and has received over $17 million in two rounds of funding from Battery Ventures and Castile Ventures. The company is headquartered in Boston, Mass., with regional offices in Chicago, Dallas, and San Francisco.
For more information on Optiant's PowerChain Inventory product, send us an email at Optimize@eKNOWtion.com
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