Kinaxis Supply Chain Transformation

With the help of Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS) systems like Kinaxis, Danish and Nordic companies are currently taking leaps towards building resilient digital supply networks. At Deloitte, we are privileged to support some of the most ambitious journeys, fulfilling the ambition of real-time visibility into the supply chain network powered by an interconnected flow of information.

Market conditions can change overnight and that companies need to be able to respond swiftly. Thankfully, we are seeing an exponential growth in digital capabilities. Technological innovations and ground-breaking software solutions are finally starting to live up to the long-time promise of enabling the kinetic enterprise – an enterprise built to evolve, no matter what tomorrow brings.

At Deloitte, we work at the forefront of digital transformation in the supply chain space, and in 2018, we announced a global collaboration with Kinaxis, provider of RapidResponse, a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions.

Moving away from the traditional planning processes
Today, more and more companies are committed to breaking away from the slow and complex supply chain planning capabilities of the past where planners spend more time updating Excel files and correcting errors across systems than actual planning and scenario building.

Swiftly, we are moving away from the traditional planning processes with their linear and delayed flow of information where each process step is dependent on the preceding step with often incomplete and siloed data. The physical supply chains are now being paired with digital twins with the ambition to achieve real-time visibility into each node of the network. This allows reshaping the way companies organise the planning teams, for instance, introducing Network Planners or more centralised and unified ways of working.

The breakthrough of these new capabilities is based on the new generation of advanced planning systems with growing computational power to handle big data as well as increased planning functionalities and integrated data modelling possibilities.

Today, the leading systems already allow organisations to integrate planning layers and models, thereby enabling end-to-end visibility and synchronized planning. In the near future, for the most ambitious companies, the vast majority of activities in supply chain planning will be handled by digital solutions, allowing supply chain planners to fully focus on reviewing the exceptions, responding to events as they happen and collaborating closer with other functions.

What we deliver
Deloitte and Kinaxis have already helped many of the world’s leading organizations in their efforts to overcome the challenges of sequential supply chain planning by creating a transformative service offering through the combination of Deloitte’s experience and capabilities in supply chain planning with Kinaxis' planning solution, Rapid Response.

We typically channel our supply chain and Kinaxis expertise into the following areas:

• Capability driven supply chain operating model
• Kinaxis advisory and design
• Kinaxis implementation services
• Integration architecture
• Project and program management

Clients choose to work with us because we combine business insight with technical know-how to deliver practical, results-driven solutions in alignment with larger strategic goals. We focus on helping clients leverage Kinaxis to enable and adopt leading practices for maximizing investments in the supply chain.