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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…
Read more »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.
Read more »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…
Read more »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.
Read more »The Challenge: The customer uses historical information for their work processes. The lingering practice was to upload the historical information manually. This resulted in several challenges, including inconsistent and out of sync data. Updating data was a long painful manual process that took about 10 man-days every month. The process was causing significant delays in…
Read more »Our Chief Technology Office, Vishy Visweswaran, discussed current supply chain challenges and technology solutions to address them in a PODCAST with Pittsburgh Technology Council. This podcast was recorded as a part of One Mic Stand special series by Pittsburgh Technology Council. Vishy presents a state of supply chain and key challenges in the video and discusses…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »SCA Planner will now include free access to the Insights reporting module for all SaaS subscribers of SCA Planner. Insights reporting includes pre-defined data items used across SCA Planner in the SCA Planner Data Warehouse. Users can build their own custom reports, set up custom dashboards, create reporting workflows or download data where no pre-built…
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