Is it Supply Chain Management (SCM)?
Unlike traditional vendors of SCM products, we believe that supply chains are dynamic structures that require online real time planning to maximize profit, not daily or weekly batch runs. Our goal is to develop the technology that allows the planning and management of global supply chains to occur in real time. Our current product, z! Fulfillment, is the first step in realizing our goal and it is proof of concept that extremely large supply chain problems can be solved orders of magnitude faster than traditional SCM vendors’ solutions. It uses a very lean representation of a supply chain incorporating components such as Bills of Distribution (BOD), Bills of Materials (BOM), and Bills of Work (BOW), as well as the business rules needed to implement Available-To-Promise (ATP), and Capable-To-Promise (CTP) functionality. In the future, we plan to use the technologies present in z! Fulfillment to provide extremely fast and scalable solutions in the areas of demand forecasting, master plann
