SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSPARENCY & COLLABORATION

Connected Chain Manager

SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSPARENCY & COLLABORATION

valantic is there for you: in 25 locations in Europe and the USA

1. INTRODUCTION

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25xDresden

Magdeburg

Munich

Frankfurt

St. Gallen

Mannheim

Hamburg

Langenfeld

Zurich

Siegburg

Böblingen

Salzburg

Luxembourg

Leipzig

ViennaHagenberg

Fürth

Cologne

Madrid

Spartanburg

Iași

Mainz

Stuttgart

Würzburg

Siegen

Spain

Romania

USA

valantic helps its customers with all aspects of the supply chain

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Transparency

Business

analytics

Monitoring &

performance

Sales & operations planning

Sales planning Production planning

Supply chain design

Plant planning &

development

Strategic

network planning

LogisticsProduction

Planning & management

Supply chain network

CustomersSuppliers

Logistics

Warehouse

management

Warehouse

planning

Transport

management

Material flow

design

Supply chain execution

Ramp-up and

change management

Production

management

Supplier

management

Supply chain

optimization

INCREASE YOUR ABILITY TO PLAN LOGISTICS PROCESSES AND CREATE TRANSPARENCY IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN

Collaboration & communication

Monitoring & collaboration

CONNECTED CHAIN MANAGER: SUPPLY CHAIN COLLABORATION

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Single-site SCM Multi-site SCM Supply chain collaboration

Increasing

degree of networking and digitalization

Data can be easily collected and evaluated centrally with the technical possibilities available today.

The future of value creation lies in connecting physical and digital systems

With the Connected Chain Manager, you shift the boundaries of your ERP system

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CONNECTED CHAIN MANAGER: USE CASE

Production site Component factory

ERP 1 ERP 2

Planning of own locations

SupplierTier 1

SupplierTier 1

TMS

Customers

SupplierTier 1

Data exchange with direct

customers and suppliers

SupplierTier 2

SupplierTier 3

SupplierTier 2

Data exchange across the entire n-

tier supply chain

Connected Chain Manager (CCM)

Next-generation supply chain management with the Connected Chain Manager

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• Powerful supply chain collaboration platform

• Completely web-based with clear and intuitive workflows

• Quick to set up and easy to scale with modules for your use case

• Easy switch between languages (German and English)

• The Connected Chain Manager (CCM)

CONNECTED CHAIN MANAGER: FUNCTIONALITIES

All relevant key figures at a glance:

● Structured exchange of information: demands,

stocks, delivery capacities, shipments, etc.

● Comprehensive standard reports

● Real-time visualization of the current situation:

stock ranges, bottlenecks, risks, etc.

● Cross-tier monitoring increases the

performance of the entire supply chain

Fast, simple, and goal-oriented:

● Connection/integration of supply chain

partners with self-service

● Web-based solution with clear and intuitive

workflows

● Communication and collaboration platform

● Common database

Cross-tier management:

● Short-term: ensuring of material supply,

production, and delivery capability

● Medium- and long-term: securing of delivery

capacities and transmission of demand

forecasts

Supply chain collaboration Supply chain transparency Supply chain management

KPIs & analysis

Fine planning

Production planning

The waySuite product family in the supply chain planning matrix

Strategic network planning

Master planning

Forecasting/

sales planning

Procurement and

material requirements

planning

Demand coverage and

ATP/CTP inspection

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The individual functions of the Connected Chain Manager expand the planning possibilities of your waySuite

CONNECTED CHAIN MANAGER: COLLABORATIVE PLANNING WITH WAY & CCM

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Communication

with partners

Range

planning

Supply capacity

comparison

Transparency &

monitoring

Visualization

Collaboration

Compare demands and supply

capacities

Supply capacity comparison

Trace inventory ranges

Range planning

Clear display of supply

networks

Supply chain visualization

Joint work on tasks and project

plans

Collaboration sector

Multi-level analysis of inventory

ranges

Supply chain monitoring

Communicate date

changes

Order promising

External supply capacity comparison increases planning reliability

CONNECTED CHAIN MANAGER: FUNCTIONS

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Functionalities

Compare and coordinate demands

and delivery capacities

Supply capacity comparison

Supply capacity range in months

incl. lower/upper limits

Range indicators

Analyze demand fluctuations thanks

to graphic display & alerting

Demand fluctuations

Communicate demand forecasts and

compare to actual quantities

Demand forecasts

Task lists enable inter-company cooperation in work areas


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Functionalities

Create and break down task lists with

internal and external partners

Task lists

Notification of task assignment and

changes

E-mail notification

Tracing of changes such as dates and

content

Change tracing

Color marking of priorities and planned end

dates

Task prioritization

Share wayPRO and Microsoft Project project plans with project partners via the cloud


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Functionalities

Share & communicate project plans with

external partners

Collaboration on project plans

Use tasks for fine coordination in project plans

directly in all process steps

Task lists

Standard interface to wayPRO or manual MS

Project upload

Integration of project plans

Possibility to report transactions and

milestones in the project plan as an external

partner

Reports

CCM order promising enables easy communication of changes to orders and delivery calls


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Functionalities

Central web platform for support of

operative order processing

Order processing

Traceability of status changes and histories in

the procurement process

Tracking of status changes

Synchronize order confirmations with ERP

and planning systems

Synchronization with planning

systems

Communicate and confirm date and quantity

changes

Date and quantity changes

Transparency of inventory ranges ensures the supply situation


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Functionalities

Ensure quick supply on a daily basis

Quick securing of supply

Use inventory range KPIs for quick

determination of critical materials

Range indicators

Detect under/overstocks with graphic display

Inventory optimization

Exception messages taking into consideration

the probable date of arrival

Shipment tracking

Supply chain modeling and visualization enables n-tier supply security


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Functionalities

Visualize complex supply networks and reveal

relationships

Network modeling

Possibility for archiving a state of the

supply chain for later tracing

Historical evaluations

Support for allocation based on demand

forecasts and customer priorities

Allocation planning

Quickly detect bottlenecks and supply security

along the entire supply chain

Multi-level supply chain transparency

By using the CCM, you increase your operative efficiency while simultaneously reducing costs

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Increase efficiency with

software-supported

preparation of data

Increase adherence to

delivery dates

Avoid lost sales due to

lacking warehouse

inventories

Improve customer/supplier

relationships

Increase transparency &

security of supply

Increase

forecast precision

Collaboration based on

single point of truth

Avoid

bull-whip effects

Reduce

inventories

Reduce

special trips

Reduce penalty payments

due to lacking quantities

Exploit cost reduction

potential in operative order

processing

Productivity

Process

efficiency

Costs

Each supply chain partner chooses the best way to transfer data to the cloud

CONNECTED CHAIN MANAGER: INTEGRATION

16*offered as separate service contract

Use our wayConnect.NET

middleware to synchronize data

with CCM*

Mass data upload

Via .csv uploads, you can also

upload larger amounts of data

without any data integration

Data maintenance inthe browser

Smaller data volumes can be

maintained easily and quickly right

on the web.

CCM supports a variety of synchronization scenarios. Many options

are supported, from manual data entry in a browser to direct

connection to the ERP system.

Supply chain partners can choose the optimal path for their

requirements.

valantic Middleware

Select the best way to transfer your data

CCM offers standardized interfaces

to be integrated by any system.

Web API Connectivity

Free integration with existing wayConnect.NET (4.3 and later)

CONNECTED CHAIN MANAGER: INTEGRATION

• Starting with Version 4.3, the

way/Connect/Connect.NET middleware

integrated into the waySuite offers standard

integration to the CCM

• There are no additional license costs

• Upgrade to last wayConnect version can be

planned customer-specifically

• Secure SSL connections (SHA-2 and 2048-bit;

the strongest on the market) to the cloud

• Use your existing wayConnect installation: no

additional server required

• The unidirectional communication from the

wayConnect server to the CCM platform means

that your network can't be attacked

Key facts:

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CCM APIHttps REST Endpoints

SSL

Data FilesiDoc, XML, Flat Files,

EDI, JSON, On-premise Applications

ERP, CRM, Logistics

RFC,iDoc,SQL,...

valanticIntegration Engine

Message QueuesWebsphereMQ, Sonic,

MSMQ, ...

DatabasesOracle, SQL Server,

IBM, ...

Queue specific

ADO.NETCIFS, FTP, TCP/IP

wayConnect.NET

wayRTS server with flexible

access to all data

RAPI

CCM offers key advantages as compared to similar software solutions

CONNECTED CHAIN MANAGER: WHY CCM?

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New features

Continuous and agile

provision of new

functions.

SaaS license model

Web solution, modular

function modules and

scalable complexity.

Easy to use

Quick and easy set-up,

clear and intuitive

workflows.

Flexible reporting

Standardized reports on

different aggregation

levels.

Transparency

within hours

Versatile report

engine

Your requirements

live in two weeks

Precisely tailored

to your needs

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We look forward to hearing from say

Contact us

Markus SchedelCCM Product Management

Teamlead SaaS Solutions

Mobil: + 49 163 5783 137Email: [email protected]

valantic SCE GmbH

Birketweg 21

80639 München

Germany

Tel: +49 (89) 578399 0

E-Mail: [email protected]

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