Manugistics Group Inc. -  Supply Chain Software -  Category Directory

(301) 255-5000

9715 Key West Avenue

Rockville, Maryland 20850

www.manugistics.com
 

Sales

$243 million 

Business Description 

We are a leading global provider of demand and supply chain management software. We have a solutions-based approach to client delivery – selling configured sets of our software products that address the specific demand and supply chain business processes that our clients want to improve. Our software enables companies to lower operating costs, improve customer service, increase revenue, enhance profitability and accelerate revenue and earnings growth by combining the proven cost-reducing power of our supply chain management software solutions with the revenue-enhancing capability of our demand and revenue management software solutions. Our software does this by creating efficiencies in how goods and services are brought to market, how they are priced and sold and how they are serviced and maintained. Our software solutions and solutions delivery approach provide additional benefits by providing businesses with the ability to simultaneously optimize cost and revenue to enhance profitability on an enterprise-wide basis. These software solutions integrate pricing, forecasting and operational planning and execution to help companies enhance margins across their enterprises and extended trading networks. In addition, our software products help our customers drive more benefits from their existing investments made in information technology provided by other software vendors, such as enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) applications, and help ensure the security and integrity of their global supply chains.

Our supply chain management software helps companies plan, optimize and execute their supply chain processes. These processes include manufacturing, distribution and service operations and collaboration with a company’s extended trading network of suppliers and customers. Our demand and revenue management software helps optimize a company’s demand chain, including pricing and promotions to all customers through all channels, with the aim of balancing the trade-offs between profitability and other strategic objectives such as market share. We also provide strategic consulting, implementation and customer support services to our clients as part of our overall solution.

Supply Chain Software & Solutions:

Manugistics solutions are configured sets of our software products that address the specific demand and supply chain business processes that our clients want to improve, and these solutions may also include consulting, implementation, training and client support services. Our solutions are designed to meet today’s demand and supply chain challenges, including planning and execution, optimizing revenue and prices, collaboration with suppliers and customers, coordinating supply and demand, managing logistics operations and managing maintenance, repair and overhaul services in complex equipment environments. We are presently focused on enhancing the following families of solutions:

Demand and Revenue Management – Our Demand and Revenue Management solutions are designed to enable clients to create business strategies such as consensus demand planning, optimal pricing strategies, targeted promotion campaigns, markdown planning and revenue management for a constrained capacity by efficiently predicting and shaping future demand.

Logistics Management – Our Logistics Management solutions are designed to help shippers, carriers, and logistics service providers manage more effectively the complexities of global logistics, including multiple modes of transport such as by air, rail, sea and truck. Capabilities cover the entire closed-loop logistics process — from strategic logistics sourcing, planning and optimization, execution and shipment tracking, to payment and performance analysis. Fleet management capabilities include finding the optimal use of a client’s fleet against shipment requirements and constraints such as locations, carriers, rates, capacities and hours of operation and generating detailed work plans that help manage the fleet.

Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul – Our Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul solutions are designed to provide comprehensive support, from asset receipt to delivery back into service, for heavy maintenance, repair, overhaul, upgrade or modification services for complex equipment such as aircraft, engines, vehicles or ships, related sub-systems and components. These solutions include service and parts management capabilities that help companies optimize and manage their service and parts operations by effectively planning and scheduling maintenance programs, parts, materials, tools, manpower and repair facilities to profitably provide the high levels of customer service.

Manufacturing Planning and Scheduling – Our Manufacturing Planning and Scheduling solutions are designed to help clients synchronize production, logistics, materials and other resources across their networks of plants and manufacturing partners while simultaneously evaluating materials, manufacturing capacity, inventory, transportation, labor, distribution and business objectives. They are intended to help increase responsiveness to event and demand changes, reduce inventory, shorten order fulfillment and manufacturing lead-times, strengthen business relationships among trading partners, increase capacity utilization and synchronize production and purchasing to meet actual demand.

Sales and Operations Planning – Our Sales and Operations Planning solutions are designed to enable cross-functional teams to simultaneously review past performance and current data on sales forecasts, booked orders, direct materials procurement, manufacturing plans and distribution and shipping capacity in order to make and execute decisions on what to produce and when and how to deliver finished goods, based on the scenarios that best meet the client’s business objectives.

Supplier and Customer Collaboration – Our Supplier and Customer Collaboration solutions are designed to enable adaptive and collaborative demand and supply chain management in which strategic and operational plans are coordinated with trading partners, supply chain operations are continuously monitored, plan-versus-actual discrepancies are detected and business policies and workflows help automatically resolve exceptions. These solutions are intended to help clients realize the profit and customer service benefits of producing the optimal mix of products, deploying optimal inventory and allocation of product to the most profitable orders or customers. 

Supply Chain Management – Our Supply Chain Management solutions are designed to provide control over the activities required to source, make, store and move goods and to service and maintain a company’s assets and those of its customers. Our clients use our solutions to manage and optimize the many facets of their supply chains – from strategic network design to operational planning to tactical event detection and resolution – to help improve customer service and capture revenue at reduced total landed cost.

Products:
Manugistics’s products are used to design, optimize and synchronize a company’s extended demand and supply chain processes. Our products are built on the Java 2 platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), which defines the programming model and architecture for implementing web services that allow organizations to communicate data without intimate knowledge of each other’s information technology systems. These open standards of J2EE help facilitate application development, aplication-to-application integration, portal connectivity, and business process management. Built on an architecture that provides rapid implementation and interoperability with other information technology assets, our products are designed to deliver industry-specific functionality and provide low total cost of ownership and the flexibility and scalability needed to effectively adapt to future business and technology shifts. The Manugistics product suite (called Manugistics NetWORKS Applications) consists of:
• Planning applications

• Collaborative applications

• Execution applications

• Foundation and Platform applications.

Manugistics NetWORKS Planning Applications.

Manugistics NetWORKS planning applications support a comprehensive set of business processes including advanced planning and scheduling; demand, fulfillment and supply; pricing optimization and revenue management; and logistics management. These applications incorporate extensive research and development and bring together the disciplines of advanced mathematical modeling and contemporary software technology. Our NetWORKS planning applications are designed to facilitate strategic, tactical and operational decision-making. Strategic decisions typically consider a time-frame of quarters to years. Tactical decisions typically consider a time-frame of weeks to months.

Our advanced planning and scheduling applications include such products as NetWORKS Master PlanningTM, NetWORKS Production Planning™, NetWORKS Production Scheduling™, NetWORKS Sequencing™, NetWORKS Attribute Based Planning™, and STATGRAPHICS™. Our demand, fulfillment, and supply management applications include such products as NetWORKS Demand™, NetWORKS Fulfillment™, NetWORKS Strategy™, and NetWORKS Supply™. Our pricing optimization and revenue management applications include such pricing products as NetWORKS Precision Pricing™, NetWORKS Promotions™, and NetWORKS Target Pricing™, and such industry-specific revenue management applications as NetWORKS Airline Revenue Optimizer™, NetWORKS Cargo Revenue OptimizerTM and NetWORKS Hospitality Revenue Optimizer™. Our logistics management solutions include such products as NetWORKS Transport™, NetWORKS Routing™, NetWORKS Resourcing™ and NetWORKS Tour Design™. We also provide our NetWORKS RFQ™ and NetWORKS RFQ Optimizer™ products in a hosted environment only.

Manugistics NetWORKS Collaborative Applications.

Our collaborative applications support business processes that connect trading partners. These products enable businesses to expand their supply chains into extended trading networks. Our collaborative applications include such products as NetWORKS Collaborate™, NetWORKS Delivery ManagementTM, and NetWORKS Market Manager™.

Manugistics NetWORKS Execution Applications.

Our execution applications support key business transactions and provide real-time visibility within businesses and between trading partners. These applications support the execution of processes in order management, manufacturing, and logistics. Our order management execution applications include such products as NetWORKS Make-to-Order™, NetWORKS Order Management™, and NetWORKS Order Promising™. Our manufacturing execution applications include such products as NetWORKS Component Management™, NetWORKS Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul™, and NetWORKS Procurement™. Our logistics execution applications include such products as NetWORKS Carrier™ and NetWORKS Freight PaymentTM.

Manugistics Foundation and Platform Applications.

Our Manugistics Foundation and Platform applications provide the technical underpinnings for all other Manugistics products and provide support for the deployment and integration of our applications into a company’s information technology infrastructure. These applications support enterprise application and trading network integration and facilitate trading network analysis, monitoring, and reporting. Our integration applications include our WebConnect™ suite of products. Our analysis, monitoring, and reporting applications include such products as NetWORKS Analytics™, NetWORKS Monitor™ and NetWORKS Reporting™.

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