Even the best-laid plans cannot account for daily fluctuations in supply and demand. Valdero proactively balances supply spread throughout the supply chain with the constantly changing picture of demand caused by last minute order changes and inaccurate forecasts. Material is intelligently allocated to the most important orders and reliable commit dates are determined. Demand is prioritized to meet your business objectives such as revenue maximization, margin contribution or customer satisfaction Shortages are prevented, excess is avoided, order cycle times are reduced, and the amount of time spent expediting orders is dramatically cut.

The benefits of Valdero Supply Demand Matching directly affect the bottom line:
Cut book-to-ship lead time up to 25%
Accelerate time to revenue as much as 60%
Improve on-time delivery 50%
Reduce excess inventory up to 10%
Slash carrying costs by 30%

Valdero gives planning and fulfillment teams control of the ever-changing status of orders and inventory:

Supply Demand Matching
Intelligently match available supply with actual demand to identify potential shortages and prioritize order shipments leading to shorter order lead times, increased customer satisfaction and higher margins. Using an intelligent, rule-based allocation engine Valdero matches supply from across your entire supply network with ever-changing demand to align fulfillment with business objectives such as maximizing revenue, margins and customer satisfaction.

Order Promising
Valdero consolidates information across the order fulfillment process so that sales, marketing and manufacturing are making decisions based on the same set of information. Check finished goods inventories distributed across internal sites and multi-level distribution networks, so that unexpected revenue opportunities can be seized upon and reliable commit dates provided to customers without maintaining 'just-in-case' inventory.

Shortage Prevention
'What-if' modeling across complex demand chains allows potential future shortages to be identified and their impact on customer orders and revenue to be assessed. Valdero enables users to determine if excess is available elsewhere in the supply chain before additional purchases are made or expensive expediting is undertaken. Purchasing recommendations are made so that POs can be pulled-in, pushed out or created to dynamically adjust supply levels to match fluctuating demand.

Fulfillment Analysis
Valdero provides real-time visibility to order fulfillment performance. Key operational metrics, such as order status, shipments, reschedules and expedites are monitored and alerts generated when performance falls out of pre-specified ranges so that customer service goals can be managed proactively.

Capabilities:
Always-On Control Station - Provides real-time monitoring of personalized metrics concerning inventory management and fulfillment performance.
Instant Notification - Alerts are triggered as soon as key indicators exceed tolerances and are pushed to critical users via email, pager or other wireless device.
Inventory Visibility - Aggregates inventory quantities and values and allows for views by internal site, by contract manufacturer site, by supplier site for raw materials, work in process (WIP) and finished goods inventory.
Supply/Demand Matching - Embedded intelligent engine enables complex supply/demand matching that incorporates a host of advanced conditions to allow for inclusion of different supply/ demand parameters.
Shortage Prevention - Proactively highlights supply shortages that will prevent demand fulfillment, assesses the impact of the shortage on customer orders and revenue, and makes purchasing recommendations.
Rule-Based Allocation - Enables the use of rules-based criteria to ensure businesses take care of their best customers and most important business objectives in case of a required allocation.
What-if Scenarios - Provides capability to run 'what-if' simulations of supply/demand matching to understand the impact of alternative resolution actions and determine finished goods availability and dates.
Fulfillment Performance Tracking - Provides real-time visibility to all order status, shipments, reschedules and expedites by customer and distribution location:

% Shipped on scheduled, promised and requested dates
Shippable orders on hold
Average due date changes
% of orders expedited
Dynamic Report Generation - Leverages an integrated reporting engine to extract and presents analysis and trend data in multiple formats.