CloudAnalytics

CloudAnalytics is an advanced supply chain analytics platform designed to simplify processes, reduce inventory, and increase margin for manufacturing and distribution companies. According to the vendor, CloudAnalytics caters to supply chain professionals, operations managers, inventory managers, production planners, and manufacturing companies in various industries.

Key Features

LEAN PLANNING: According to the vendor, CloudAnalytics allows users to build future-state planning strategy for easy exception management. Users can define replenishment strategies and receive daily recommendations on new orders, expedites, cancels, and deferments. The alert-based system provides recommendations on invalid master data and suggests new strategies for existing items.

MRP: CloudAnalytics generates daily plans for new orders, expedites, cancels, and deferments based on defined planning strategies. Users can utilize easy-to-use drill-downs to investigate MRP messages and fix master data issues. The vendor emphasizes the design's focus on building trust in the system.

OPERATIONS EXECUTION: CloudAnalytics enables users to tie execution to daily and strategic planning with integrated shop floor scheduling and data collection. According to the vendor, the platform facilitates two-way communication with the production floor, ensuring a tight feedback loop on production issues. It also reveals opportunities to optimize replenishment planning. Shop Floor Reporting and Capacity Planning tie back into planning parameters for optimal planning and execution.

SIOP / S&OP: According to the vendor, CloudAnalytics incorporates market intelligence into forecasts, allowing users to discover future constraints before they impact operations. The "Pull Methodology" of CloudAnalytics is said to keep inventory investment low and supply chain flexibility high.

METRICS REPORTING: CloudAnalytics provides users with hundreds of out-of-the-box customizable metrics. Users can easily filter down to relevant data, eliminating noise and focusing on actionable information. According to the vendor, the platform offers alerting and historical tracking to facilitate data analysis.

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE: CloudAnalytics allows users to consolidate all operations improvement projects in a single, easy-to-use reporting platform. Project metrics roll up to various levels of the organization, according to the vendor. The notification-based interface is designed to make managing multiple projects easy.

Seamless integration with NetSuite: CloudAnalytics can be seamlessly integrated with NetSuite, extending the power of NetSuite for supply chain analytics, according to the vendor.

Historical Analysis: CloudAnalytics enables users to track historical supply and demand trends, helping them identify the root cause of stock outs or excess inventory, according to the vendor.